Associate Assistant Principal - Commerce Faculty (Maths / Business / ICT)

Location: Birmingham
Job Type: Supply Teaching
Industry: Secondary Teacher
Reference: 311022751
Salary: £250 - 320 per day + PAYE, subject to experience
Job Published: about 11 hours ago

Associate Assistant Principal – Commerce Faculty (Maths / Business / ICT)

Start date: ASAP
Contract: Full-time
Duration: Long-term, with the opportunity to go permanent for the right person

The role

This is a brilliant opportunity for an experienced and ambitious leader to step into a key senior role, providing strategic leadership across a thriving Commerce Faculty.

You’ll lead a talented and committed team spanning Maths, Business, ICT, and related disciplines, shaping curriculum, driving standards, and supporting staff to do their best work. You’ll be part of a supportive senior leadership team that values collaboration, consistency, and calm classrooms.

This role would suit someone who enjoys thinking big, leading from the front, and creating the conditions where both staff and students can thrive.

What’s on offer

  • A well-established, well-resourced faculty with strong subject expertise

  • Clear support from visible and approachable senior leaders

  • Collaborative planning with shared schemes of work and centralised resources

  • Disruption-free learning, with systems that genuinely work

  • Centralised detentions and streamlined behaviour processes

  • No formal graded lesson observations, just ongoing, no-stakes instructional coaching

  • High-quality CPD and clear routes for career progression

  • Opportunities to complete NPQs

What we’re looking for

You’ll be someone who combines strong leadership with a calm, people-first approach, and who believes that great teaching happens best in a supportive environment.

Essential skills and attributes

  • Strong awareness of safeguarding and child protection, with up-to-date training or a willingness to complete it

  • Experience working within an educational setting

  • Knowledge of school standards and procedures, or openness to training

  • Adaptable leadership style, able to work effectively with a wide range of people

  • Commitment to continuous professional development

  • A clear commitment to safeguarding and student wellbeing

  • Ability to build positive, professional relationships with staff, students, and parents

  • Confidence working as part of a collaborative team

Relevant experience

  • Handling sensitive and confidential student information professionally and discreetly

If you’re an inspiring leader who’s ready to make a genuine impact across a core faculty, this role offers challenge, support, and real progression in equal measure.

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see the FAQs on the Protocol Education website for further details.

All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.

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