London Borough of Hackney
School Organisation Strategy Manager
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About Hackney Council
Hackney is one of the most dynamic and progressive local authorities in the UK. We are a resilient, vibrant, and creative borough in the heart of London, with strong, diverse communities and a powerful set of shared values.
Over the past twenty years, the Council has built up first-class services, outstanding public infrastructure, and a reputation for excellence, innovation, and ambition. We are leading the way on essential work such as our fight for equity in Hackney with a particular focus on becoming an actively anti-racist borough. But the work doesn’t stop there, we are proactive in our approach to bringing fairness to all aspects of life including gender, neurodiversity and across the poverty divide.
Hackney Council is recognised as one of the UK’s highest-performing local authorities, serving a vibrant and dynamic community in one of London’s most desirable locations. Over the past twenty years, we have built a reputation for excellence, innovation, and ambition.
Hackney Education
Hackney Education is committed to being the UK’s most forward-looking education system. We aim to enhance the life chances of every learner by creating an inspiring environment that guarantees inclusion and success for everyone. We are leading the way in our fight for equity, with a specific focus on becoming an actively anti-racist borough. As we rank among the 10% most deprived areas in England, our key priority is providing strong support for underserved families and communities.
The School Organisation and Place Planning Team is crucial to Hackney’s overarching education strategy. This strategy aims to provide high-quality education for every child by developing an agile and sustainable school system. This system will build on existing collaborative models while addressing challenges such as fluctuating pupil numbers, limited resources, and the growing needs of children requiring significant support.
About the Role
Are you a strategic leader passionate about educational excellence and organisational efficiency? Do you have a proven track record in planning, consultation, and delivering large-scale strategic change within a complex public sector environment, ideally in education?
We are seeking an ambitious and experienced School Organisation Strategy Manager to lead the development and implementation of our long-term vision for school provision. The School Organisation Strategy Manager is responsible for the strategic planning and delivery of school places, ensuring there are enough high-quality sustainable school places. This involves supporting the work that leads to proposals on school organisation changes and working with stakeholders to implement decisions.
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This role provides strategic leadership on the school organisation and place planning strategy, with direct accountability for delivering complex and politically sensitive change programmes, including school closures, mergers, and asset optimisation. The post holder manages 1 team member, ensuring operational excellence, effective governance, and partnership working.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic leadership on the school organisation and place planning strategy.
- Ensure the delivery of complex and politically sensitive change programmes.
- Manage a team member, ensuring operational excellence and effective governance.
- Support the work that leads to proposals on school organisation changes.
- Work with stakeholders to implement decisions.
Qualifications and Experience
- Educated to degree level, equivalent professional qualification or relevant experience.
- Significant senior-level experience in delivering complex programmes in a public sector setting, ideally involving school reorganisation or public consultation.
- Strong understanding of public consultation, equalities legislation, and governance.
- Extensive experience in school organisation and pupil place planning, strategic planning, and managing school re-organisation projects.
- Strong communication skills, excellent rapport building, and the ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with staff, managers, and stakeholders.
- Confidence in presenting highly accurate and relevant quality data in a variety of formats and using strategic trends, issues, and insight to provide advice and recommendations.
About Us
As a Council, our most outstanding asset is our staff, who are highly dedicated to serving our residents and committed to our goals as an organisation.
If you want to work in a place where you can represent our values so we achieve the best for our residents, please click on the apply button below.
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Diversity and Inclusion
Hackney Council works to eradicate discrimination on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We also recognise that people can be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will also work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class. We also welcome those interested in flexible working. We particularly welcome applications from disabled people, as this group is currently under-represented in our workforce.
The Council has a dedicated employment support service (Hackney Works), which offers Hackney residents guidance in relation to applying for jobs. If you are thinking about applying for a job, please contact the Hackney Works team to find out what support is available: hackneyworks@hackney.gov.uk.
Important Dates
- Closing date for applications: 05 October 2026 (22.59)
- Interview date: TBC
We are also working towards our vision, which is to be a place for everyone; where residents and staff can be proud; a place that celebrates diversity and where everyone can feel valued, included, and involved. In order to achieve this, we look for people who are: Proud; Ambitious; Pioneering; Open; Proactive; Inclusive.
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