Trust Attendance Improvement Manager

About the role

You will work in partnership with school leaders, attendance officers, safeguarding teams and external agencies to:

• Adapt and implement trust-wide attendance policies and strategies to meet individual school contexts.
• Analyse attendance data to identify patterns, trends and barriers to attendance.
• Plan and deliver high-quality attendance interventions, including preventative and early‑help work with pupils and families.
• Provide coaching, training and professional guidance to school-based attendance teams.
• Support schools with statutory processes, including penalty notices, prosecutions and education supervision orders where required.
• Build strong relationships with families and partners to remove barriers and secure positive attendance outcomes.

You will also play a key role in promoting the vital link between attendance, attainment and wellbeing, ensuring schools maintain a consistent, solution‑focused and compliant approach.

• A strong track record of improving attendance and reducing persistent and severe absence.
• Excellent communication and relationship‑building skills.
• The confidence to lead, influence and support school leaders and teams.
• A child‑centred, solution‑focused approach balanced with a strong understanding of statutory frameworks.
• Flexibility to travel across trust schools and work remotely as required.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Full commitment to our vision and values.

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.

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.