Director of education and employers jobs

Full-time, 35 hours per week

Permanent

Grade AL, Salary £74,460 per annum

Location: Euston Square, London

Closing Date: 5.00pm on Wednesday 17 August 2022

Interview Date: 1st interviews on Thursday 25 and Friday 26 August 2022

The Royal College of General Practitioners is the professional body for GPs with over 53,000 members worldwide. Our purpose is to encourage, foster and maintain the highest possible standards in general medical practice. We advocate on behalf of GPs, their wider teams and patients at the highest levels, and promote the crucial role of general practice in the NHS.

The Assistant Director of Policy, Research and Campaigns is accountable for the strategic development and implementation of the College’s policy, research, and campaigns programmes. Overseeing around 15 staff, the role is responsible for ensuring that the College represents the views of its members to policy makers and opinion formers at the highest levels and shapes the future of general practice and the wider NHS.

This is an exciting opportunity for an inspiring leader with a strong track record of policy innovation and high-level influencing. You will be adept at driving delivery within a complex and fast changing organisational environment and will work closely with the Chair of Council to ensure that the contribution of general practice and the work of GPs is recognised and valued in the health and wider political landscape. You will play a key role in engaging with senior stakeholders, developing the general practice evidence base, and supporting innovation and research.

You will be expected to be an active member of the College’s senior management team, sharing corporate accountability for the achievement of strategic and business plans, acting as a role model demonstrating the College’s values in action and encouraging a positive working culture.

The successful candidate will share our corporate values. In return, the College offers excellent terms and conditions.

Please download the Candidate Pack on the RCGP website to view the full job description.

To apply, please apply directly on the RCGP website and upload your CV and cover letter.

The Royal College of General Practitioners is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

                                         ~ Putting members at the heart of everything we do ~

National Energy Action is looking for a Director of Homes who will lead the charity’s work to improve the lives of people in fuel poverty through improvements to building fabric and heating systems. It will strengthen NEA’s expertise and authority in this space across our activities.

The long-term solution to fuel poverty is for homes to be more energy efficient and more affordable to heat.  As National Energy Action’s Director of Homes, you will be at the heart of this vital transformation.  You will be part of our senior leadership team.  You will be responsible for our practical projects to improve the homes of people in fuel poverty; and you will bring expertise to critical debates on retrofit, decarbonisation and affordable warmth. 

This is a great time to join a passionate, committed and expert team.  If you think that everyone should be able to afford to keep their homes warm and safe; if you have the experience to drive our work in these areas, if you want to change for the better how people live their lives – we would love to hear from you.

This is a full time, permanent post with a flexible location in the UK.  The successful candidate will be part of the Senior Management Team, along with 3 other Directors, the Deputy Chief Executive and the Chief Executive. 

Candidates should have a demonstrable and evidenced track record of directing major programmes with complex funding arrangements, securing contracts through commercially-tendered bids, commissioning or procurement by private and public bodies.

The job description provides a list of the duties of the post and the person specification provides the list of essential and desirable criteria.

Our staff continue to work remotely on a temporary basis.  Post-holders must be resident within the UK, and be able to prove their Right to Work in the UK.  Post holders must also be willing to travel throughout the UK, including overnight stays as appropriate.

Interviews will take place on 7 and 8 September 2022, these could be in person or virtually.  Please indicate in your application if you will be available on these dates should you be selected for interview. Candidates are not expected to be present for the full two days.

ABOUT US

Our purpose is to make a positive impact on the experiences and outcomes of all Imperial College students from all backgrounds and we are one of the oldest students’ unions in the UK.We’re a registered charity with income of c.£11m and a staff team of c.250.We are a separate legal entity, and are independent, from Imperial College. However, we work together in close partnership and we receive annual funding from the College through our block grant.

There is so much that makes Imperial College Union special. We’re based in an historic campus environment in South Kensington – a short distance from the Natural History Museum and Hyde Park.The Union building itself is next door to the Royal Albert Hall.

Imperial students are some of the highest performing and most dedicated students in the world, meaning they are incredibly engaged and keen to participate in the opportunities and activities on offer – including our amazing range of over 380 clubs, societies and projects.We have a strong relationship with the College and have been on an exciting and positive journey of change and improvement, delivering our ‘back to basics’ strategy over the last 3-years.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We’re looking for a new Managing Director that will build on our strong foundations and help us continue our journey to become an outstanding students’ union; someone that will help us be the kind of students’ union that our members need and deserve.

The role requires a leader that can mentor and co-create solutions with student leaders and that is passionate about developing and empowering students.

The successful candidate will bring experience in leading the development and delivery of long-term strategic plans and a clear understanding of good practice in the Higher Education, Voluntary and/or Students’ Union sectors.

You will need to demonstrate the ability to build effective partnerships with a wide range of stakeholders, further building the growing reputation of the Union as a force for change and positive impact.You’ll also need to be able to motivate and inspire the team you work with day in, day out – to further establish a high-performing, inclusive culture.

BENEFITS

We offer sector-leading benefits for the role including a generous 21.6% employer contribution pension scheme, 39-40 days holiday and a strong commitment to flexible working.As the role is on an Imperial College employment contract, you would also have access to an extensive range of professional development opportunities and peer support from within the College.

We think this is an amazing opportunity and hope you do as well. 

To view the full details of the role including our Candidate Information Pack, please visit our website.

We are committed to equality of opportunity, to eliminating discrimination and to creating an inclusive working environment for all. We therefore encourage candidates to apply irrespective of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender identity, sex, or sexual orientation. We are an Athena SWAN Silver Award winner, a Disability Confident Leader and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.

The main purpose of the post is to raise funds for the College through face-to-face fundraising, and to have strategic oversight of the College’s regular giving programme and stewardship activity. The postholder will also support the Director with overseeing the general day-to-day running of the office administration, including gift processing, data entry and budgeting, ensuring effective and efficient systems are in place for successful fundraising.

Are you a values-driven, hand-on leader with broad fundraising and communications knowledge? Do you have strong experience in grant fundraising? Do you want a diverse, exciting role where you can work from home? We’d love to hear from you.

A leading and award-winning early childhood education charity, Sabre works in close partnership with the Government of Ghana to deliver Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.2 on universal access to quality pre-primary education. Sabre is highly recognised for its ‘Brighter Futures Programme’, which is delivered through building playful school environments and providing transformational teacher training on play-based learning for young children.

You will have proven fundraising experience and leadership skills, experience of managing and developing staff, and a passion for early years education.  You will be a talented leader and relationship manager who is highly motivated by the prospect of stepping into this maternity cover to continue shaping fundraising and communications for Sabre Education at a pivotal stage in the charity’s growth.

The role requires excellent relationship building and communication skills with our donor community, deep fundraising expertise across income streams, and a specific background in trusts / institutional fundraising. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with strategic drive who is looking to step into a senior leadership role with a dynamic international charity during this maternity cover, and who brings creativity and the ability to inspire others to support our world-class programmes.

The St Matthews Church Brixton PCC Building Charity is looking for a new Building Manager and Charity Director with people, financial and practical skills, and a social-entrepreneurial outlook, to manage the large and visible building of St Matthew’s in the centre of Brixton in Lambeth, south London. Built in 1824 the building was converted in the 1970s and now offers substantial office and other spaces available for rent across 6 floors (including a restaurant in the crypt). The parish church of St Matthew’s Brixton, which continues to occupy a small part of the building, set up the Building Charity to promote the rest of the building as a sustainable community asset for use by community oriented organisations and charities. It is responsible for its own facilities management.

The Building Manager & Charity Director is a wide-ranging role encompassing the upkeep of the building and managing tenancies, working closely with the vicar and Charity trustees to develop and promote the building as a good place to rent, developing good local relationships, and ensuring the Charity is run on a sustainable and sound financial footing. The successful candidate will be an experienced facilities manager who is also ambitious for the future of the St Matthew’s building and how the Charity can best fulfil its vision.

22nd August: Closing date (5pm)

29th August: Shortlisted candidates informed

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Executive Team as our Interim Director of Growth & External Relations. You will join DI during a period of change while we recruit for a new CEO and will fill an urgent need during this interim period.

As Interim Director of Growth & External Relations you will be responsible for aiding DI’s growth through all types of partnerships, increasing DI’s brand and external profile with new and existing audiences and ensuring DI’s impact is effectively communicated. This role will expand DI’s networks and influence and drive growth through new alliances.

This is an exciting role within an agile team as part of a global organisation, with location Hubs in the UK, US and East Africa.

Duties include:

• Build on existing strong external relationships and collaborations, as well as bringing in new relationships which are institutionalised within DI to maximise influence, growth and impact.
• Implement the business development strategy for DI and ensure DI Hubs have support, skills and appropriate targets to deliver on the strategy.
• Oversee and enable Hubs to tailor the brand and the brand assets to their region and unique audience; providing leadership, tools and advisory support.
• Manage DI’s strategic global income partnerships which encompass multiple Hubs and/or regions.
• Promote the creation of new ideas, programmes and projects with our three distinct groups of external partners: income, influence and impact.

About you

You will be a confident leader who is able to inspire staff within DI as well as external partners. You will be collaborative, working closely with the acting CEO and other directors to drive forward the strategic goals of the organisation.

We are looking for a candidate with a minimum of 15 years’ experience in a senior management role in an international organisation within the international development, humanitarian, peace and security or human rights sectors. You will need to have public relations experience – specifically managing teams who oversee communications and external relations – with a focus on government affairs.

The successful candidate will be required to attend meetings, receptions and dinners outside of office hours, as well as travel regularly (regionally and globally) to represent DI (30% travel expected).

If you are an experienced leader with an energetic and positive outlook, who looks for solutions and helps colleagues explore new ways of doing things, we would love to hear from you.

Early applications are highly encouraged; we will be reviewing submissions as they arrive, and interviews will be held periodically. As we are recruiting on a rolling basis, we reserve the right to end recruitment without notice

If you would like to contribute to increasing the impact of a dynamic organisation committed to ending poverty, we would love to hear from you. Please download and read the full recruitment pack and apply with your CV and cover letter via our online application system.

Who we are looking for

We are looking for a motivated and talented professional to join our organisation as the Director of Initial Teacher Training (ITT) where you will define and continue to evolve the vison for Ambition’s ITT offer.

You'll play a key role in ensuring high quality professional development for trainee teachers, mentors and lead mentors at a significant scale, holding senior accountability for successful programme delivery.  You'll also help drive the continuous improvement of our ITT provision and participant experience through oversight of our delivery partner relationships, quality assurance, compliance, programme data and governance.

Other responsibilities you'll have include heading up the design and evaluation of our ITT programme model programme, as well as working with central and partner school senior leaders ensuring all parties, including trainees, comply with the School-Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT's) policies and codes of practice and other relevant legislation.

Working in a hybrid way, you’ll be attached to either our Birmingham, London or Manchester office and will report to the Senior Director of Programmes and manage the ITT Associate Directors.

If you are interested in this role and have Qualified Teacher Status and senior management experience in a school/MAT then we would love to hear from you.

Who are Ambition Institute?

At Ambition Institute we help schools tackling educational disadvantage to keep getting better, and help their teachers and school leaders to become more expert over time. That’s how we’ll make sure every child gets a great education and the best possible start in life. 

• We train teachers and leaders at all levels to get better at the things that make the biggest difference: what you teach, how you teach it, and how you create the conditions for schools to thrive. 
• We share what works. Everyone can benefit from evidence of how great teaching and leadership can improve schools and change lives, so we connect people to the latest research and best practice. 
• We champion every teacher and school leader’s potential to develop, as the driving force for sustainable school improvement.

Our offer

We are happy to announce that we will be able to offer you:

• Agile working culture, so you can control how you work.
• Staff affinity networks that help keep equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our work.
• Enhanced maternity pay after a year’s service.
• Shared parental leave package.
• Access to free, confidential 24/7 wellbeing and support line.
• Professional development offer for all staff.
• 25 days’ annual leave + bank holidays.
• Employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% national insurance rebate).
• Interest free season ticket / bike loans

How to apply

All applications must be received by the closing date, 9am on 15 August 2022. Interviews are expected to take place the week beginning 22 August 2022.

To apply for this role, or any of our other vacancies or for any questions or queries please visit our website.

Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality.

Who we are looking for

Its an an exciting time to join Ambition Institute as we develop and launch our new Initial Teacher Training (ITT) offer to supplement the work we already do with circa 25,000 teachers and school leaders this academic year. We are looking for a motivated and talented professional to join our team and play a key role in the operational headship of our Initial Teacher Training offer.

You'll be part of the leadership team for our ITT Programme and will hold responsibility for its operational management and coordination across a national delivery partnership. You can expect to be responsible for ultimately ensuring that we are compliant with statutory requirements, drive the development and management of all ITT systems, processes, procedures, and policies to ensure all regulatory, contractual and quality requirements are met or exceeded as part of our high-quality delivery.

Working in a hybrid way, you’ll be attached to either our Birmingham, London or Manchester office and will report to the ITT Director. In line with our current ways of working, you’ll be expected to be in the office at least 1 day a month, in addition to team days (this is subject to review).

Other day to day tasks include the preparation for ITT Ofsted inspections, the development of support services and policies to equip the ITT trainees on the programme as well as working closely with the Project Management Office during the programme mobilisation phase.

Some skills and experience that will really help you succeed in your new role involve great project management skills, excellent knowledge of policy and statutory requirements for ITT provision, high-value contract management, complex budgets and payment schedules and the ability to maintain strong internal and external stakeholder relationships.

Who are Ambition Institute?

At Ambition Institute we help schools tackling educational disadvantage to keep getting better, and help their teachers and school leaders to become more expert over time. That’s how we’ll make sure every child gets a great education and the best possible start in life. 

• We train teachers and leaders at all levels to get better at the things that make the biggest difference: what you teach, how you teach it, and how you create the conditions for schools to thrive. 
• We share what works. Everyone can benefit from evidence of how great teaching and leadership can improve schools and change lives, so we connect people to the latest research and best practice. 
• We champion every teacher and school leader’s potential to develop, as the driving force for sustainable school improvement.

Our offer

We are happy to announce that we will be able to offer you:

• Agile working culture, so you can control how you work.
• Staff affinity networks that help keep equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our work.
• Enhanced maternity pay after a year’s service.
• Shared parental leave package.
• Access to free, confidential 24/7 wellbeing and support line.
• Professional development offer for all staff.
• 25 days’ annual leave + bank holidays.
• Employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% national insurance rebate).
• Interest free season ticket / bike loans

How to apply

All applications must be received by the closing date, 9am on 10 August 2022. First round of interviews are expected to take place on 12 August and second stage 17 August 2022..

To apply for this role, or any of our other vacancies or for any questions or queries please visit our website.

Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality.

Who we are looking for

Do you have the ability to draw stakeholders together for a shared goal? Do you have a proven track record of delivering cross organisation and cross team projects over various timescales?

We are looking for an experienced professional to join our organisation as the Associate Director for Project Management and Mobilisation. You'll lead and oversee a portfolio of cross-organisation projects and mobilisation initiatives with the potential to make a significant impact across the organisation. Plans will be developed and implemented ensuring their successful delivery.

You can achieve this by defining project scope and objectives whilst ensuring all relevant stakeholders are included, technical feasibility and costs for each project are in place.

Another key area of your new role is having the ability to report in writing and verbally (as required) to senior project stakeholders, including Directors, Executive Directors, Trustees and the Department for Education.

Working in a hybrid way, you’ll be attached to either our Birmingham, London or Manchester office and will report to the Senior Director, PMO & Mobilisation. In line with our current ways of working, you’ll be expected to be in the office at least 1 day a month, in addition to team days. This is subject to review.

Applications can be considered for all office locations (London, Birmingham, Manchester).

Who are Ambition Institute?

At Ambition Institute we help schools tackling educational disadvantage to keep getting better, and help their teachers and school leaders to become more expert over time. That’s how we’ll make sure every child gets a great education and the best possible start in life. 

• We train teachers and leaders at all levels to get better at the things that make the biggest difference: what you teach, how you teach it, and how you create the conditions for schools to thrive. 
• We share what works. Everyone can benefit from evidence of how great teaching and leadership can improve schools and change lives, so we connect people to the latest research and best practice. 
• We champion every teacher and school leader’s potential to develop, as the driving force for sustainable school improvement.

Our offer

We are happy to announce that we will be able to offer you:

• Agile working culture, so you can control how you work.

• Staff affinity networks that help keep equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our work.

• Enhanced maternity pay after a year’s service.

• Shared parental leave package.

• Access to free, confidential 24/7 wellbeing and support line.

• Professional development offer for all staff.

• 25 days’ annual leave + bank holidays.

• Winter Shutdown (additional days off)

• Employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% national insurance rebate).

• Interest free season ticket / bike loans

How to apply

All applications must be received by the closing date, 9am on 19 August 2022. Interviews are expected to take place on the 30 August 2022.

To apply for this role, or any of our other vacancies or for any questions or queries please visit our website.

Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality.

About the role

The purpose of this role is to:

1. Lead and manage NEON’s Ops Hub so that our systems are all working smoothly and our team is happy, high-performing and cared for. The Ops Hub is one of NEON’s 3 “Hubs” (what we call teams) - the others are the Movement Building Hub, and the Communications Hub, also run by Directors

2. Lead operational, culture, anti-oppression and “People” projects (we like to use “People” rather than “HR” since we go well beyond traditional HR)

3. Help steer NEON by playing an active role in Directors Group (our equivalent of a Senior Leadership Team) which is made up of the Directors from Movement Building and Comms Hubs, and the Executive Directors

What you will be doing

Here are the key responsibilities of this role:

• Leading on operational projects - ensuring our operational systems run smoothly and consistently across the team, and which aim to push the boundaries of what a progressive organisation and culture can do. For example, working with the Operations Officer on standardising how we work with freelancers, systematising NEON’s approach to giving and receiving feedback, or supporting our Senior Finance Manager in pushing forward the upgrade of our finance systems

• Leading the Ops Hub - doing weekly and quarterly planning and priority-setting, maintaining the collaborative, caring and high performing culture of the hub, pushing forward projects we’re working on together

• Managing the Senior Finance Manager and People & Operations Manager to a high standard - using the full spectrum of management tools and approaches e.g. mentoring, coaching, challenge and feedback, more formal performance processes - empowering them to thrive at NEON and perform their role excellently

• Delivering and/or delegating responsive requests from the team and incubated organisations around People and/or Operations - including culture, anti-oppression, governance, finance, systems and processes, HR

• Acting as an escalation point for any “HR” issues that need legal advice - getting that external advice and working with Directors to resolve; noticing performance issues in the team early before they get to this point, and using your skills and experience to navigate through them. This could be coaching someone through giving difficult feedback, sitting in informal or formal performance meetings, or running other accountability processes e.g. transformative justice

• Ensuring a high level of attention to detail both in yourself and in the Ops Hub on important projects and documents e.g. contracts for freelancers, consistency in recruitment processes, budgets and financial decisions

• Leading the creation of the operations budget for the year, using data from previous years and the Operations Strategy - with support from the Executive Directors and the Senior Finance Manager

• Playing an active role in the Directors Group (our version of a Senior Leadership Team), bringing your skills and experience on People and Operations issues and any insights you have about trends in the team, contributing to organisational-level planning and thinking, and working as peers to steer NEON. This includes ensuring you build up a good enough understanding of the work of our Movement Building and Comms Hubs to contribute to organisational thinking

• Bringing an anti-oppression lens to all of the above - confidently applying anti-oppression principles and practice to all operational work, and to how you show up at NEON. This includes both challenging us organisationally to be better, and being robust in yourself to grow and behave accountably

Who you are

• A skilled leader, able to lead a team towards a vision or goal, to delegate well, and create the culture that makes all of this happen and build strong relationships

• An excellent manager - great at getting the best out of people you manage and work with - working with them on their own development and empowering them to grow through support and challenge. This means having a toolbox to choose from so you can use the full range of skills to support people, from coaching and mentoring to formal performance management

• Able to flex between longer term projects, regular cycle work and responsive requests - you are great at being self-motivated in order to push longer projects forward over weeks or months, as well as getting daily or weekly operational tasks done. But you can also shift your workload to turn things round in a day when it’s important. (15-20% of the role is not filled with allocated work to allow for unexpected stuff, and jumping in to support each other)

• Someone who deeply cares about creating a liberatory/anti-oppressive culture and is not afraid to experiment with radical new ways of working if the right way doesn’t exist yet, and has put this into practice

• Really into ”People” (including “HR”) and Operations and tapped into that world - books, podcasts, networks, trainings so that you bring new ideas and approaches. And you have the skills and experience to back it up and put this into practice to a high standard

• Comfortable and experienced with overseeing budgeting and some aspects of finance, and not afraid of numbers - although the actual day to day is all managed by others in the team

• Comfortable with saying no and managing your time, energy and workload so it is sustainable and all still gets done (with support from your manager)

• Willing to continuously learn and grow - with good emotional intelligence and self awareness including around your own power, and an ability to give and receive feedback well, and sit in (and encourage) healthy conflict and disagreement

• Committed to NEON’s purpose of building the strength of movements for social, economic and environmental justice, and to learning how to align your actions with the values of NEON: solidarity; generosity and respect

Who we are looking for

Its an an exciting time to join Ambition Institute as we develop and launch our new Initial Teacher Training (ITT) offer to supplement the work we already do with circa 25,000 teachers and school leaders this academic year. We are looking for a motivated and talented professional to join our team and play a key role in the operational headship of our Initial Teacher Training offer.

You'll be part of the leadership team for our ITT Programme and will work closely with the Learning Design team to shape the programme offer and quality assure ITT tutoring, facilitation, mentoring and assessment. This will be achieved by defining the quality standards expected of delivery partners (DP) and placement schools, quality assurance visits, inductions and facilitator assessments.

You'll also be responsible for ensuring continuous improvement of the programme runs throughout using data from the feedback from participants, facilitation and assessment quality and the experience of the DPs.

Working in a hybrid way, you’ll be attached to either our Birmingham, London or Manchester office and will report to the ITT Director. In line with our current ways of working, you’ll be expected to be in the office at least 1 day a month, in addition to team days (this is subject to review).

If you have Qualified Teacher Status and have experience developing the performance of teachers, including school ITT mentoring or provider tutoring we love to hear from you.

Who are Ambition Institute?

At Ambition Institute we help schools tackling educational disadvantage to keep getting better, and help their teachers and school leaders to become more expert over time. That’s how we’ll make sure every child gets a great education and the best possible start in life. 

• We train teachers and leaders at all levels to get better at the things that make the biggest difference: what you teach, how you teach it, and how you create the conditions for schools to thrive. 
• We share what works. Everyone can benefit from evidence of how great teaching and leadership can improve schools and change lives, so we connect people to the latest research and best practice. 
• We champion every teacher and school leader’s potential to develop, as the driving force for sustainable school improvement.

Our offer

We are happy to announce that we will be able to offer you:

• Agile working culture, so you can control how you work.
• Staff affinity networks that help keep equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our work.
• Enhanced maternity pay after a year’s service.
• Shared parental leave package.
• Access to free, confidential 24/7 wellbeing and support line.
• Professional development offer for all staff.
• 25 days’ annual leave + bank holidays.
• Employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% national insurance rebate).
• Interest free season ticket / bike loans

How to apply

All applications must be received by the closing date, 9am on 10 August 2022. First round of interviews are expected to take place on 12 August and second stage 17 August 2022..

To apply for this role, or any of our other vacancies or for any questions or queries please visit our website.

Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality.

Overview:

The Debt Service Transformation (DST) Programme Director will be the senior leader of Christians Against Poverty’s ongoing programme to transform our flagship debt service. The Programme Director role is a key one that links into the UK core team, reporting to the Chief Operating Officer (COO). They will have to lead a complex transformation programme and therefore be an experienced and efficient leader ideally with experience of large scale service redesign, digital transformation, and large scale programme management. They will have excellent people skills, business acumen and an exemplary work ethic. A role of this scale and profile does not come around very often, so this is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of CAP’s primary service.

The role: 

The goal of the Programme Director position is to ensure a successful programme of change that improves our debt service offering to partner churches, that increases client empowerment, reduces our overall cost to serve and ensures our service can scale to meet the growing needs of people in poverty across the breadth of the UK. The programme director will play a key role in making the vision for our debt service a reality and will lead on the execution of the transformation work. This role will work closely with the Directors of Debt Operations, Church Network, and Technology and will lead the programme delivery team who manage the day to day work of the programme.

Who we're looking for: 

We are passionate to see CAP working with Church partners to ensure our life transforming services are available to all communities across the UK, giving our clients the opportunity to hear and respond to the love of Jesus.

You will bring appropriate strategic influence towards excellent outcomes, ensuring timely decisions are made so that the programme delivers agreed aims within timescales and budget.

Location: 

Ideally Bradford Head Office based (with hybrid working), however for the right candidate we will consider remote workers for this role (with monthly visits to HO).

Rewards and wellbeing:

• CAP 6.5% employer pension contribution

• 34 days annual holiday (including flexible bank holidays)

• 1 additional days holiday for each full year of service (up to a max of 5 additional days)

• 2 paid Mental Health days and up to 5 days Family Emergency Care leave days per year

• Paid 'Revive' days to take time out with your team during the year

• Enhanced paid sickness, maternity, paternity and adoption leave

• Access to Employee Assistance Programme

• Hybrid working

• Flexi-time from completion of training (start/finish earlier or later in the day, accrue extra time off and achieve that work/life balance)

• Plus many more!

• Read our full Rewards and Well-being brochure.

Disclaimer: This role is offered on a 2 year fixed term contract but further extension is possible depending on programme needs.

Genuine occupational requirements: 

Under the 2010 Equality Act, schedule 9, we have a genuine occupational requirement for all employees and volunteers to be practising Christians.

For further information, please contact the People & Culture team at CAP.

Diversity and inclusion:

CAP celebrates the value of diversity and our aim is for our workforce to be as inclusive as possible as well as representing the communities we serve. With this in mind, we welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from candidates from black and ethnic minority backgrounds. We are committed to continue building an environment that embraces diversity and includes all.

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You are advised to submit your completed application form as soon as possible to have the best chance of being considered. We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date where we have a high response rate.

Please note that we are unable to consider applicants who do not presently have permission to work in the UK.

Who we are looking for

Do you have a demonstrable track record of leading effective programme delivery? Do you have strong strategy and change management skills?

We are looking for a talented experienced professional to join our organisation as the Senior Director of Programmes. You’ll play a key role in ensuring high quality professional development for teachers and school leaders at a national scale, with senior responsibility initially for Ambition’s traded programmes portfolio which include our flagship teacher development programmes.

You’ll be responsible for our programme delivery strategy, leading change as required to ensure our delivery remains responsive to the shifting demands of new programmes and contracts as well as working closely with our Finance team on the effective monitoring of a multi-million pound budget.

Working in a hybrid way, you’ll be attached to either our Birmingham, London or Manchester office and will report to the Executive Director of Programmes. You’ll manage a multidisciplinary team of Directors and demonstrate dedication to our mission.

Other responsibilities you can expect from your new role include being accountable for the logistics, scheduling of facilitators and events across all our centrally delivered programmes, as well as overall headship of programme data, reporting, reviewing risk and the continuous improvement of programme delivery.

Who are Ambition Institute?

At Ambition Institute we help schools tackling educational disadvantage to keep getting better, and help their teachers and school leaders to become more expert over time. That’s how we’ll make sure every child gets a great education and the best possible start in life. 

• We train teachers and leaders at all levels to get better at the things that make the biggest difference: what you teach, how you teach it, and how you create the conditions for schools to thrive. 
• We share what works. Everyone can benefit from evidence of how great teaching and leadership can improve schools and change lives, so we connect people to the latest research and best practice. 
• We champion every teacher and school leader’s potential to develop, as the driving force for sustainable school improvement.

Our offer

We are happy to announce that we will be able to offer you:

• Agile working culture, so you can control how you work.
• Staff affinity networks that help keep equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our work.
• Enhanced maternity pay after a year’s service.
• Shared parental leave package.
• Access to free, confidential 24/7 wellbeing and support line.
• Professional development offer for all staff.
• 25 days’ annual leave + bank holidays.
• Employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% national insurance rebate).
• Interest free season ticket / bike loans

How to apply

All applications must be received by the closing date, 9am on 11 August 2022. Interviews are expected to take place the week beginning 22 August 2022.

To apply for this role, or any of our other vacancies or for any questions or queries please visit our website.

Equality and diversity matters to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality.