Executive Director - Programmes Delivery

Executive Director - Programmes Delivery

Who are Ambition Institute?

A great teacher changes the future every day. Especially for children who have had a tough start in life, a teacher can be the critical factor in their success.

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.

What would we like…?

To help us achieve our mission, we’re looking for a motivated and talented leader to join our senior executive team. With expertise in leading professional development at scale, this person will contribute both as a strategic organisational leader and be the accountable executive for our new ITT programme and other programmes in our suite. They will work closely with our Executive Director responsible for the early Career Framework and National Professional Qualifications, and will work with others in Ambition and across the education sector to develop and deliver new types of programmes and support.

Reporting directly to Hilary Spencer, our CEO, our new colleague will help drive the continuous improvement of our programmes and participant experience through their strategic oversight of the delivery of our programmes and interventions. They will be personally commited to equality, diversity and inclusion in their role as an organisational leader and across the education sector. This role is crucial in our work to help schools tackle the ongoing challenges facing children from disadvantaged backgrounds, and to achieving our mission of tackling educational inequity.

What’s in it for you….?

• Competitive annual salary.
• Professional development for all staff.
• 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays and 'winter shut down’ between Christmas and New Year.
• Employer pension contribution of 11%.
• Agile, hybrid working culture, so you can manage when and where you work.
• Staff affinity networks that help keep equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our work.
• Blind recruitment process to ensure equality and fairness in our hiring.
• Enhanced maternity pay after a year’s service.
• Shared parental leave package.
• Access to free, confidential 24/7 wellbeing and support line.
• Comfortable and collaborative workspaces in the city centres of Manchester, Birmingham and London
• Work-from-home technology package to support hybrid working.
• Interest free season ticket / bike loans.

ABOUT YOU

We don’t expect the person we hire to have all of the following, but this should give you a sense of what would enable you to thrive in this role and in our team:

YOU SHOULD APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF:

• You care deeply about educational disadvantage and being part of an organisation that challenges inequality.
• You have a good work ethic and strive to make a difference in the job you do.
• You always give maximum effort to understand and meet the needs of our partners and participants.
• You always have a great attitude so we “can do” for all our colleagues, partners and participants.
• You are open to feedback and learning because we want to keep getting better.
• You work with your initiative to bring new ideas and a fresh perspective.
• You are well organised and can prioritise work that will have the greatest impact.

YOU’LL LOVE WORKING AT AMBITION IF…

• You want a career with a person-centred organisation with a cause at its heart.
• You have a collaborative work ethos, bring warmth and good humour to work and constructive outlook to every situation.
• You enjoy working in a fast-moving workplace, with a great support structure around you.
• You would like to grow with an ambitious organisation as it progresses over time
• Want flexibility in how you work – splitting your time between one of our offices and remote working and managing your own working patterns to get the job done.

If this sounds like you, and you can demonstrate a consistent track record of success in delivering high quality, evidence-based professional development in the education sector, please go to our website to find out more. We look forward to hearing from you.

How to apply 

Applications must be received by the closing date, 9am on 3 August 2023. Informal conversations are expected to take place virtually between 9th -11th August 2023 with panel interviews to take place week beginning 14 August 2023.

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.