Trust Attendance Improvement Lead

Are you a strategic attendance leader ready to shape practice at scale? This is a rare and exciting opportunity for an experienced attendance professional to lead trust-wide attendance strategy, quality assurance and improvement across Star Academies, one of the highest-performing multi-academy trusts in the country. As Trust-wide Attendance Lead, you will provide strategic leadership, expert challenge and system oversight to secure sustained improvement in attendance, persistent absence and severe absence across all phases and regions. Working as part of the Central Inclusion and Attendance function, you will influence practice at every level, from board reporting and executive decision making to school-level leadership capacity and frontline systems. This role is ideal for a leader with a deep understanding of statutory attendance frameworks, a strong moral purpose, and a proven ability to drive improvement through clarity, consistency and collaboration. It is very much a hands-on role, working directly with Senior Leaders and Attendance Leads in our school, balanced with keeping an oversight of attendance patterns and fidelity to the Star model in each school. About Star Central Star Central, which is based at our head office in Blackburn, Lancashire, provides leadership, strategic direction and support to Star Academies, Star Talent Academy and our schools. The Star Central team includes experts from a range of professional backgrounds, who work together to provide an outstanding support service to the Star community. We support our schools to provide educational and operational excellence and to cultivate a strong Star community, with the aim of nurturing today’s young people and inspiring tomorrow’s leaders. Who we’re looking for Star Academies is seeking a highly experienced and credible Trust-wide Attendance Lead to provide system leadership and strategic oversight of attendance across our geographically diverse trust. You will bring: A strong track r