Curriculum and Development Manager

The Organisation

The Brilliant Club is an award-winning and independently-evaluated charity that exists to increase the number of pupils from underrepresented backgrounds who progress to highly-selective universities. We do this by mobilising the PhD community to share its expertise with state schools. We recruit, train and place PhD researchers to work with state schools: either part-time as tutors through The Scholars Programme or full-time as classroom teachers through Researchers in Schools (RIS). In 2017/2018, The Brilliant Club worked with 500 state schools and 12,000 pupils across the UK, making it the largest university access programme for 11-18 year olds.

The Opportunity

We are excited to be recruiting for a Curriculum and Development Manager for Researchers in Schools. In The Brilliant Club ‘s strategy The Path to Outcomes, we have committed to delivering consistent and reliable outcomes for our pupils. This includes a pledge to support 6,500 pupils from under-represented backgrounds to progress to highly-selective universities by 2021.

As a member of the Researchers in Schools Team, this role will play an important part in delivering this strategy, supporting the delivery of the Researchers in Schools’ Research Leader in Education Award. This will
include managing the design and delivery of training modules that will equip participants to deliver a research and development project in their second year and a leadership project in the third year of the Researchers in Schools programme. The charity is committed to delivering pupil-focused programmes as part of its strategy, and the Curriculum and Development Manager role is central to this.

The role requires a driven and dynamic team player, with demonstrable success in school teaching and some experience of carrying out education research. They will deliver aspects of our Continuing Professional Development provision directly during our Summer Training residential and weekend training days) and will have the opportunity to design training sessions for participants on the Researchers in Schools programme.

The successful candidate will champion the charity’s values and embody them in interactions with colleagues and partners. They will be able to work with different teams and take a leading role in managing programme evaluation data. They will co-ordinate programme activities, track progress and deliver results.
They will be positive and pro-active, with a commitment to delivering excellent standards.

To Apply

Please click here to submit your CV and a one page-covering letter. Please note that we will not consider applications that do not refer to this post.

Deadline 10am on Friday 26th April 2019

Interviews First round interviews taking place w/c 7th May. Second round interviews taking place w/c 13th May.

Further Details Please visit https://researchersinschools.org/or call Chloe Hayes on 02079391961