Participant Development Manager
TeachFirst
Greenwich
- Expired
- Salary:
- £40,070 - £45,460 dependent on experience + excellent benefits.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- August 2017
- Apply by:
- 22 July 2017
Job overview
Job Title: Participant Development Manager (PDM)
Location: Birmingham, West Midlands
Contract Type: Permanent Salary: £40,000 - £45,000 + excellent benefits
Are you a fantastic people manager looking to take their next step? Do you have a passion to make a real difference to children’s lives?
Why Teach First?
How much you achieve in life should not be determined by how much your parents earn. Yet in the UK, it too often is. We are Teach First and we believe this can change. One great teacher can change a child’s life. We find, train and support people to become brilliant teachers, inspiring the young people who need them the most.
What will you be doing?
We are looking to hire a Participant Development Managers (PDM). The PDM will be accountable for excellent participant outcomes in a your local area. The PDM will lead on all local participant impact activity through the line management of approximately fifteen Participant Development Leads (PDLs) whose delivery constitutes a significant factor in the successful delivery of the new Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) from September 2017 and broader delivery of the Teach First Leadership Development Programme. You will need to be a highly experience people manager capable of quickly building rapport and credibility with your team who are experts in their field.
What makes you the ideal candidate?
First and foremost, a passion for the Teach First vision and mission - we are working towards a day when no child’s educational success is limited by their socio-economic background.
Essential:
• People Management and Development: Provides team direction and builds an effective team, empowering and enabling direct reports to act independently and solve problems on their own. Address performance issues fairly, positively and promptly. Provides ongoing, future focused, constructive, timely and specific feedback to others about their development progress and encourages and facilitates collaboration across teams.
• Relationship Management: Nurtures a network of external stakeholder relationships of benefit to the team and organisation.
• Customer insight and service excellence: Acts as an escalation point and gathers insights through a range of sources, seeking to collect, interpret and deploy information to improve delivery within own area.
Desired:
• Knowing the Market: Experience developing and coaching teachers in a broad range of contexts
For a full job description, information on our benefits and to apply please click the ‘apply now’ button.
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About TeachFirst
Teach First is an independent educational charity, Reg. No. 1098294, established in 2002 to directly address the problem of educational disadvantage. Now in its eighth year, Teach First has already changed the lives of thousands of young people. Working with a range of partner organisations Teach First harnesses the energy, enthusiasm and drive of exceptional graduates to provide leadership, motivation and, above all, inspirational teaching in challenging schools across England, through a two year Leadership Development Programme. The Programme combines working, qualifying and training as a teacher with leadership development training, coaching and mentoring, and a range of networking and internship opportunities. Beyond the two-year Programme, Teach First works to empower, equip and mobilise its ambassadors (alumni) with the skills, tools and networks they need to support the Teach First mission by driving forward sustainable change in education from both inside and outside the classroom.
Teach First is currently ranked 8th in the coveted league of Times Top 100 Graduate Employers – the highest ranked charity in Britain, and was the Charity Awards Education and Training Charity of the Year 2009. The organisation currently has 160 employees across the country with an annual operating budget of over £12 million. We rely on voluntary donations from companies and foundations and other sources to continue our work. We also receive support from the government and uniquely have been identified by all three political parties in their election manifestoes as an initiative they each wish to support and expand.
More information can be found at: www.teachfirst.org.uk
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