The joint founder of a leading free school has joined one of the country’s biggest academy trusts on secondment as national director of transformation.
Ed Vainker, chief executive of the Reach Foundation which runs Reach Feltham, has joined Ormiston Academies Trust (OAT) in a part-time role until the end of this academic year.
Vainker, also a trustee of the Confederation of School Trusts, will “add capacity to our executive team so that we are able to both improve our support for schools and teachers in the short term, whilst developing OAT’s longer term strategy,” the trust said in a statement.
Natasha Rancins has also been appointed national director of secondary education at the trust, a new role focused on creating a school improvement strategy to deliver “an ambitious and transformative education” for the 32,000 pupils in the trust’s 32 secondaries.
