Central Services

As the CEO and Accounting Officer of the Mulberry Schools Trust, Dr Vanessa Ogden leads the Executive Team, ensuring the Trust and all its schools are successful over time in a sustainable way. She has overall responsibility for the education of all the young people in our schools. She provides high level strategic leadership and management across all aspects of the Trust’s activities including the central services offered to schools in the Mulberry family. The responsibilities for the CEO are:

Accounting Officer for the Trust
Strategic leadership – Trust values, culture and strategy
Quality of Education
Finance, sustainability and compliance
People strategy
Governance and accountability
System leadership and civic responsibility

Each member of the Executive Team has extensive expertise and experience in the field of education and business, school leadership and school improvement, and is deeply committed to the Mulberry Schools Trust, its schools and its values.

Performance and Operations	The Director of Performance and Operations works closely with the CEO, planning and developing the growth of the Mulberry Schools Trust and leading related projects, such as the Mulberry STEM Academy, the establishment of new schools and schools transferring into our Trust. They have overall responsibility for all operational matters of the Trust’s performance. This includes IT, GDPR and privacy, presenting and analysing key performance indicators, HR, communications and marketing, developing strategies for raising standards, school to school peer reviews, and deployment of Trust-wide Lead Practitioners.
HR	The HR team are responsible for supporting all schools in the Trust with HR policy and practice. This includes centralised statutory policies, support with a range of HR issues and a HR monthly bulletin for all staff about wellbeing and benefits. The HR team also support with recruitment, including role design, adverts and job descriptions. Every year the HR team run an employee opinions survey in all the schools focusing on matters of equality, diversity and inclusion, as well as holding lived experience focus groups with all staff around these issues.
Finance	The central finance team and Chief Financial Officer support all schools with budgetary planning support, advice and guidance when required, as well as coordinating statutory audits.

Health and safety and buildings	Technical advice and compliance guidance is provided to all schools on Health and Safety and premises management. This includes monitoring PFI contracts, managing all sub-contractors and ensuring facilities management providers are delivering to their specific SLA’s and KPIs. The Director of Estates also leads on the writing of Capital Bids and procurement of available additional funding.
Governance	The Director of Governance and Development serves as the Company Secretary and is responsible for all matters of governance within the Trust, ensuring that all statutory responsibilities are fulfilled. This includes legal compliance, communication with the Department for Education, as well as organising all Trust and Local Governing Body meetings for each school. The Director of Governance and Development oversees the agenda setting, minutes, policy updates, Governors training and new Governors induction.
Marketing and Communications	The Director of Marketing, Communications and External Affairs is responsible for the marketing of the Trust, its key projects, internal and external communications and provides a tailored service to Trust schools, on request, to meet local needs.

Richard Street
Commercial Road
London E1 2JP

020 7790 6327
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The Mulberry Schools Trust is a charitable company limited by guarantee and registered in England and Wales (Company No. 10035860).
Company’s registered office: Mulberry Schools Trust, Richard St, Commercial Road, London E1 2JP.