About the role

Programme Leaders in the Centre for Educational Leadership are creative, motivated and solution focused leaders of both programmes and people with successful, credible experience in the leadership of learning, equity and diversity.

The successful candidate will work collaboratively with existing Programme Leaders and Professional Services teams to ensure the success of UCL’s Early Career Teacher Development Programme. This programme is delivered to circa 17,000 Early Career Teachers and Mentors annually, and the purpose of this role is to ensure that, as the ITTECF programme develops, there is a continued focus on high-quality delivery at scale.

As this is a development opportunity, the successful candidate will also be afforded the opportunity to work flexibly across CEL’s portfolio of leadership and consultancy programmes as needed, to support and promote a coherent offer to educational leaders. This seconded role may include working with groups of regional partners and involve some national and international travel.

This post, offered on a secondment basis, will include working with groups of regional partners and may involve some national and international travel.

The successful applicant would remain an employee of their current organisation retaining their terms and conditions of employment, but we will work with your current employer to reimburse appropriate costs.

We will work with you and your employer to set up a formal secondment agreement.

This post is available until 31st July 2027 in the first instance.

Any informal enquiries regarding this role can be directed to Mark Quinn, Deputy Programme Director, Early Career Teacher Development or Hilary Adli, Director, Teacher and Leadership Development, UCL.

About you

You will be a successful career as a school leader with demonstrable knowledge of current teacher and leadership development models and leadership policy and practices.

You will have an excellent understanding of current education policy in London and national contexts and substantial experience of developing collaborative working relationships with external partners and stakeholders including Teaching School Hubs and groups of Schools.

Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.

It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.