Programme and Events Manager

The Centre for Growth events and programme manager will ensure our professional learning programmes and events are planned, promoted, coordinated and delivered with pace and precision. The post holder will translate trust priorities into clear project plans, align stakeholders across academies and central teams, and use strong routines and evaluation to ensure every programme or event runs smoothly and improves year on year. The role will work in collaboration with stakeholders across our trust and externally and must maintain productive relationships. 

Why choose Dixons Academies Trust? 

Our mission is to challenge educational and social disadvantage in the North. As a school trust, we are committed to making a difference where it matters most through delivering exceptional education in our schools in Bradford, Leeds, Liverpool and Greater Manchester, which include primaries, secondaries, all-throughs and a standalone sixth form. 

• We are values driven: we work hard on the things that matter, with humility; we are good and kind; we are motivated by mastery, autonomy and purpose.

• We have been challenging educational and social disadvantage for over 30 years. 

• We have launched a bold flexible working policy to give our teachers more time back. 

• We are ambitious for every child and highly inclusive. 

• We have an innovative approach to central operations which allows educators to focus on teaching and learning. 

• We prioritise the professional development and growth of all our staff; every member of Team Dixons receives regular coaching. 

• We are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce and our staff work collaboratively to share resources and reduce workload. 

• We offer hybrid working arrangements and free on-site parking. 

• We have a wealth of benefits and salary sacrifice schemes (private health, lifestyle benefits and discounts).

Within our communities, we work together to establish joyful, rigorous, high performing schools which maximise attainment, value diversity, develop character and build cultural capital. By the age of 18, we want every students to have the choice of university or a high-quality apprenticeship. 

Visit our OpenSource Youtube channel to learn more about our approaches and culture. 

Learn more 

Full details of this role can be found in the job description and person specification. 

Interviews will take place on 4 June 2026. 

Please visit our careers site for more information about our trust, our roles and our benefits or call us on 01274 085526 and speak to Angela Skinner, Business Support Administrator, HR, to discuss the role further. 

We are committed to equality of opportunity, recruiting a diverse workforce, and creating an inclusive environment for everyone at Dixons. Therefore, we encourage applications from underrepresented communities and irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergent status, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender reassignment, sex, or sexual orientation. We are happy to make reasonable adjustments wherever possible through the recruitment process should this be required. 

We are focussed on delivering an ambitious equality, diversity and inclusion strategy. You can read more about this here. 

Our trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS check.