Application Form:

Leadership Development Officer (LDO)

PART A


Personal Details

First Name
Surname
Telephone
Email

Teaching Qualification

Type
e.g. PGCE
Specialism
e.g. Secondary Maths

Regional Location

Preference
Second Choice
(if applicable)
Third Choice
(if applicable)

Application Background

Have you previously applied to be an LDO with Teach First? / If yes, what was the academic year?
Do you have any other outstanding applications with Teach First? / If yes, what is the vacancy?
How did you hear about this vacancy?

PART B

Knowledge & Commitment

Teach First’s vision is that no child’s educational success is limited by their socio-economic background and we are looking for people who are committed to helping us achieve this goal.

Please explain your commitment to addressing educational disadvantage and your motivations for working as an LDO. How do you believe this role will allow you to positively impact on participants and pupils? Please limit your answer to 400 words.

PART C

In the following questions please ensure that you articulate the context, your actions and the outcome.

Achieving Results

LDO’s work with participants to support them to achieve ambitious visions and goals with their pupils in service of Teach First’s Vision. It is therefore of critical importance that LDOs have high expectations.

With this is mind, please describe a time that you achieved results in your classroom explaining clearly what you did and what the impact was on pupil progress. Please limit your answer to 200 words.

Building Strong Relationships

As an LDO you will be working with a wide range of participants, school staff, university colleagues as well as Teach First employees. As a result, an ability to build strong relationships with a range of different people is vital.

Please describe how you have developed and cultivated effective working relationships with colleagues. Please limit your answer to 200 words.

Developing Others

As an LDO you will spend a large proportion of your time working to coach and develop adults.

How would you use your skills to help other adults develop their leadership potential and increase their impact on their students? Please limit your answer to 200 words.

Planning & Organisation

LDOs have a variety of tasks to achieve and deliverable dates to achieve these by, therefore planning and organisation is crucial to success.

Please describe a time that you have had to plan effectively to meet an ambitious deadline and what strategies and tools you used to do this. Please limit your answer to 200 words.

End of application.

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