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Trustees at Dixons Academies Trust play a vital role in advancing our mission to challenge educational and social disadvantage across the North. As a member of the Board, you will help shape our trust's strategic direction, safeguard our long-term sustainability and ensure that every decision reflects our values, mission and commitment to delivering exceptional outcomes for children and young people. This is a significant governance role with collective responsibility for overseeing educational performance, financial stewardship, risk management and regulatory compliance across a growing family of academies. Trustees provide constructive challenge and support to executive leaders, ensuring that our trust remains ambitious, financially resilient and focused on delivering the highest standards of education and care.

Dixons Academies Trust is a values-led, high-performing family of schools serving communities across Bradford, Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester. We exist to improve life chances by providing a transformational education for children and young people in the North, particularly those facing the greatest disadvantage. Our academies share a common culture, a common mission and a common commitment to social mobility. Our schools and college serve thousands of children and young people, and every day our staff work to create environments where students are known, valued and challenged to achieve their potential. As we continue to grow and strengthen our impact, we are seeking exceptional individuals to join our board of trustees and help shape the next chapter of our journey. This is an opportunity for leaders who want to use their expertise, influence and experience to make a meaningful difference. We are looking for people who can challenge, support and inspire us, bringing strategic insight, fresh perspectives and a commitment to improving outcomes for young people., We are looking for people who can challenge, support and inspire us, bringing strategic insight, fresh perspectives and a commitment to improving outcomes for young people. We are particularly interested in hearing from leaders with expertise in:

• Finance, audit and risk - helping us maintain strong financial stewardship, effective governance and long-term sustainability.
• Education, including primary and SEND - bringing insight into teaching, learning, inclusion and the experiences of children across different stages of education. We are looking for trustees who bring not only professional expertise, but also curiosity, ambition and a belief in the power of education to transform communities.
We want our board to reflect the diversity of the students and families we serve and we warmly welcome applications from people with different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. This is more than a governance role. It is an opportunity to help shape the future of thousands of young people and contribute to a lasting legacy., Placing purpose and quality before profit, Peridot Partners is a values-led third sector executive recruitment agency transforming leadership and inspiring change with organisations that have a social purpose. We're a close-knit team of exceptional people and we're proud of developing an ultra-flexible, empowering and fun culture. We focus on long-term, deep-rooted relationships that bring added value. We challenge the status quo about what makes good leadership, and this is reflected in our exceptional clients, candidates and close community of change-makers. Since 2009, we have worked with organisations that want to grow and who appreciate and value good leadership, across the public, third and private sectors. The strength of our organisation comes from our cross-functional networks, our exceptional research team and our experience attracting people from all sectors to organisations with a social focus. We recruit to boards, executive positions and specialist functional roles such as fundraising, finance, and marketing and communications across a range of sectors, from social justice and health charities, foundations, grant-making organisations and think tanks to awarding bodies, training providers, schools, multi-academy trusts, colleges and universities, and student unions., "The Executive Team recruited by Peridot are fantastic! The team are one of the best I have seen and have successfully taken on the challenge of an organisation facing insolvency and led a turnaround in our fortunes, and into a successful merger that will safeguard further education in the city of Brighton." - Chair of the Corporation at Greater Brighton Metropolitan College We're driven by our values:
• Be brave - We champion and challenge in our own individual ways to improve outcomes for ourselves and our clients.
• Bring rigour - We're thorough, thoughtful and speak up for what's right.
• See the bigger picture - We build real partnerships and work together for long term success.
• Sense and respond - We respond in creative and meaningful ways to what's needed.
Our intentions are clear: to achieve the best outcomes for our clients, our candidates, our people and our business. We are known for third sector executive recruitment underpinned by high standards, quality service and creating social impact. We develop long-term, deep-rooted relationships that bring real value to our partners across socially focused sectors. Diversity at our heart We do not believe in throwaway statements about diversity. Instead, diversity is at the heart of everything we do and is crucial to our success, reputation, and the organisations and people we work with. We understand that it is not good enough to simply not discriminate and we must do more to create positive change. With this in mind, we are proud that we have been actively working to become an Anti-Racist and more inclusive organisation. We recognise that unconscious bias exists and must be minimised. We have put processes in place to manage them. We have a position of influence as a recruitment company to make our positive contribution to change the systems that perpetuate discrimination, and with that comes a responsibility to do better. We work tirelessly to ensure we lead inclusive campaigns and projects that can encourage all members of society to apply and know that they will be treated with decency and respect. We support equal opportunities in employment and oppose all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination based on gender, age, ethnic or national origin, religion, sexual orientation or disability. We believe that a diverse not for profit sector will provide better leadership to accelerate positive change in society. We are proud to have an exceptional track record of leading inclusive recruitment campaigns that enhance diversity of leadership teams and boards. As a recruitment partner, you can expect us to:
• Constructively challenge you if you have exclusive and restrictive criteria in your role profiles.
• Ensure the advertising materials for your role use inclusive language and imagery.
• Promote your role within sector-specific networking forums wherever possible (e.g. women, global ethnic majority, disabled and LGBTQIA+ networks).
• Put diversity at the heart of the projects we are undertaking when talking to your staff and board to ensure we are reflecting the people and communities you work with and for.
• Challenge inappropriate behaviour, practice and comments where required.
• Make reasonable adjustments as needed.
Our commitment to building diverse organisations starts with us, and we are proud that women, LGBTQ+, disabled and people from ethnic minorities consider Peridot a great place to work.