{"id":14,"date":"2025-01-23T12:32:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T12:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/bre\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:18:19","slug":"person-specification","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/booktrust\/person-specification\/","title":{"rendered":"Person Specification \u00ad\u2013 Head of Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Personal Attributes<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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  • Strong leadership and management skills.<\/li>\n
  • Open and collaborative. Able to involve and get the best out of internal expertise from across specialist teams to deliver impact.<\/li>\n
  • Deep knowledge of the school\u2019s sector and commitment to supporting schools develop positive reading habits for children and young people, with a focus on those who need support the most.<\/li>\n
  • Outward facing and able to build strategic partnerships to further the reach and impact of BookTrust\u2019s school offers.<\/li>\n
  • Strategic thinking and planning, interpreting data and using evidence to make recommendations, decisions and action plans.<\/li>\n
  • Comfortable navigating multiple inputs and viewpoints to coordinate and plan.<\/li>\n
  • Commercial acumen and business development skills. Comfortable with leading income generation and able to balance integrity with commercial planning.<\/li>\n
  • Strong communication skills. Able to communicate clearly, concisely and effectively to internal and external stakeholders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Experience<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    Essential\u00a0(assessed through shortlisting and interview)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • Leadership and management experience, with a track record of working with senior stakeholders and delivering results through matrix-style working.<\/li>\n
    • Demonstrable experience of strong collaborative working behaviours, with the ability to work positively with specialist teams to acheive best results.<\/li>\n
    • Experience in leading and working across multiple strands of activity within a programme of work, spotting interdependencies, opportunities and risks.<\/li>\n
    • Deep knowledge of the school sector. Commited to supporting schools to develop positive reading habits for children and young people, with a focus on those who need support the most.<\/li>\n
    • Key experience in developing \/ executing:\n
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      • Long-term planning for change and delivery;<\/li>\n
      • Effective programmes to deliver impact-led outcomes and sustainable income streams.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
      • Demonstrable commercial and business development skills, with experience of leading income generation.<\/li>\n
      • Strong communication skills. Able to communicate clearly, concisely and effectively to internal and external stakeholders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Desirable<\/strong><\/p>\n

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        • Experience of working as part of a geographically-dispersed team.<\/li>\n
        • Experience of building external partnerships to sucessfully target or scale activity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Skills and Attributes<\/strong><\/h3>\n

          Essential\u00a0(assessed through shortlisting and interview)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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          • Confident influencer, with excellent interpersonal and communicative style.<\/li>\n
          • Effective collaborator with internal and external stakeholders.<\/li>\n
          • Excellent writing skills and ability to distil complex information into a strong, cohesive story.<\/li>\n
          • Strategic thinking and planning, interpreting data and using evidence to make recommendations, decisions and action plans.<\/strong><\/li>\n
          • Comfortable navigating multiple inputs and viewpoints to coordinate and plan.<\/li>\n
          • Commitment to, and role modelling working in, an inclusive way and committed to BookTrust\u2019s valuing and development of diversity.<\/li>\n
          • Comfortable in working in medium sized organisation (c.100 people) which works at national level and at scale.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/booktrust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/booktrust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/booktrust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/booktrust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/booktrust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/booktrust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/booktrust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/booktrust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}