Mark Craig

BSc MBA DMS DipEd PGCE MIoD

CURRENT ROLES

National Leader of Governance

2014 to present

Consultant Adviser

Oxford Diocesan Board of Education

2014 to present

Educational Governance Consultant

Church of England

2014 to present

Governance Adviser

Lee Bolton Monier Williams

2015 to present

Governor

The Hendreds CofE Primary, Wantage

2016 to present

Chair

The Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury

2017 to present

SELECTED PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

Chair, Executive Committee

Grove CofE Academy, Wantage

2015 - 2016

Chair, Executive Committee

John Henry Newman Academy, Oxford

2014 - 2015

Chair, Interim Executive Board

Millbrook Primary School, Grove

2013 - 2014

Chair of Directors & Member

Vale Academy Trust, Wantage

2013 - 2014

Chair of Governors

King Alfred’s Academy, Wantage

2009 - 2014

In governance terms, Mark has done most things, including:

• chairing in both primary and secondary sectors

• leading struggling schools to recovery using both IEB and Executive Committee models

• directing the development of the country’s first ‘mixed MAT’ academy trust

• taking one of Oxfordshire’s biggest secondary schools from having a ‘notice of concern’ to ‘outstanding’

• leading Oxfordshire’s first secondary converter academy

He is also a National Leader of Governance - in that capacity, he has worked for many schools, contributing expertise to their governance systems.

Mark is an experienced external reviewer of governance, and has significant experience in this area, with primary, secondary and academy schools, as well as with MATs.

PUBLISHED WORK

The RIGHT Programme - a major governance initiative, created and developed to upskill chairs of Church schools in the Diocese of Oxford, the largest Anglican diocese in England, as well as Chichester.

Thinking Governance - a national governance programme, created and developed to help governing bodies of Church schools adopt a highly-effective way of developing school strategy.

Contributor – ‘How To Run An Academy School’, ICSA 2016

Text editor - 'Wait for the Ricochet: the story of Deep Purple's 'In Rock' album', Easy on the Eye (2nd edition) 2017

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mark serves as Director of Communications for a leading international charity. Previously Depute Principal of a Scottish College of further and higher education

EDUCATION

• BSc Mathematical Sciences

• MBA (Strategic Management)

• PG Diploma in Management Studies

• PG Diploma in Education

• PGCE (Mathematics)

• Certificate in Christian Apologetics

• Elected Member, Institute of Directors

• Certified Facilitator, LEGO® Serious Play®

• Certified Facilitator, Six Thinking Hats

SELECTED SIGNIFICANT CONFERENCES

National Diocesan Governance Group

London

(speaking)

NWCOGs conference

(keynote & workshop)

SW & SECOGs conference

(workshop)

Governor Conferences

The Church in Wales

Wrexham & Cardiff

(keynote & workshop)

Annual Headteachers & Governors Conference

Diocese of Chichester

Brighton

(keynote & workshop)

Annual Governors Conference

Diocese of Blackburn

Preston

(keynote & workshop)

LBMW Equity Partners conference

London

(facilitating)

The RIGHT Programme

Diocese of Oxford

1. ‘Visionary governance’

(facilitating - with Baroness Estelle Morris)

2. ‘Is there a future for Church schools’

(facilitating - with Rev Nigel Genders)

3. ‘British values’

(facilitating - with Lord Alex Carlile)

Diocese of Oxford Head Teachers’ Conference

Hedsor House

(facilitating - with Lord Robert Winston)

National Schools Conference

London

(keynote - with Rt Hon Charles Clarke

Symbiosis National Conference

RM Ltd

(keynote)