John Murphy, the chief executive of Oasis Community Learning, is to step down after nine years at the helm of the 52-school trust.
The school leader said he had “decided now is the right time to pursue a range of projects across the education sector in leadership, mentoring, and supporting school leaders and trusts”.
He will stand down in the autumn term. The trust said it is “starting the process of finding a successor”.
“Having dedicated all my professional life to education, as a headteacher in the primary, secondary and special sector, and more recently as CEO, I am confident that the trust is at a point of success and stability which means now is the right time for me to hand over to a new CEO,” Murphy said.
