Join Ambition Education Trust as a Governor

Why join Ambition as a Governor or Member of Staff?

Becoming a governor for Ambition Education Trust offers a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of the children across all of our Trust schools. Governors help shape the vision and strategic direction of each school, ensuring high standards of teaching, learning, and wellbeing, and through this role, you will gain valuable experience in leadership, governance, and decision-making, while working collaboratively with a team of dedicated professionals. Beyond personal and professional development, being a governor allows you to contribute to your local community, influence the future of education, and support a Trust committed to inclusion, ambition and Educational Excellence for All.

As a Trust, we expect Ambition to:

• Enable governors and leaders to join together and take responsibility to provide better education in their community, rather than just in their individual schools, supported by a common ethos
• Facilitate the sharing of effective practice across a family of schools so that when a particular approach has been shown to work, improving teaching and learning, it can be implemented across the Trust
• Ensure that no school is left behind
• Extend the reach and opportunities for great leaders and governors at all levels to support and develop teachers across a wider group of schools
• Produce a pipeline of future leaders, by enabling a greater array of middle leadership positions
• Facilitate the recruitment and retention of staff, by giving leaders the ability to point to realistic career development paths and opportunities to specialise within a MAT
• Make it easier for teachers to support each other across the family of schools by sharing, drawing on and learning from good practice, taking on increased responsibility for specialist subjects and acting as a coach and critical friend
• Generate economies of scale, enabling cost efficient commissioning and purchasing of goods and services, and/or facilitating the development of in-house services for schools across the MAT

Become a governor

We are always looking for strong candidates who bring diverse skill sets, experiences, and a deep passion for education, so if you would like to be a part of our exciting journey providing Educational Excellence for All, then we would love to hear from you.