Programme Leadership
Ambition Institute
Birmingham, London or Manchester
- Expired
- Salary:
- From £40,000 per annum + LW (if applicable)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 21 April 2019
Job overview
We are looking for talented individuals and experienced leaders to join our Programme Leadership team in Birmingham, London or Manchester and welcome applications from both primary and secondary specialists. You will lead the collaboration of specialist teams from across the division and wider organisation. The Associate Dean will assure all aspects of execution in order to deliver a high impact outcome and will be an expert facilitator across various groups of educators.
The ideal candidate will possess the following qualities:
- Teaching and school leadership experience;
- A good understanding of at least one major customer group (teachers, middle leaders, senior leaders, headteachers, executive leaders), schools and the wider education system.
- A good understanding of the principles of effective training and development.
- Excellent communication and negotiating/influencing skills with the ability to draw stakeholders together for a shared goal.
- Excellent organisation, programme and project management skills and a strong delivery track record.
- Excellent team management skills, ideally in a virtual team or project structure.
- Previous experience managing multiple, competing demands, including good budget management skills.
- Champion of our values and embody them in interactions with colleagues and partners.
- Mission: a strong commitment to education, the non-profit sector and raising the aspirations, achievements and life chances of all children
- Be a committed and generous team worker, to whom going above and beyond expectations for their colleagues is second nature.
Desirable
- Qualified to degree level (2:1 equivalent or above);
- Qualified to teach in the UK (hold QTS);
- Masters degree;
- Significant experience facilitating across various groups of educators.
Our offer
We are happy to be able to offer you:
- Agile working - a dynamic and flexible internal culture that gives employees control over the way they work and supports wellbeing
- A competitive annual leave entitlement of 25 days, plus bank holidays
- A generous employer pension contribution of 11% (10% pension plus 1% NI rebate)
- Competitive salaries rates and life assurance
- Access to an interest free season ticket and bike loans, as well as eyecare vouchers
- An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which provides confidential support for employees on personal or work-related matters.
- A robust learning and development offer that ensures your continuous professional development
How to apply
To apply for this vacancy, please visit our website https://www.ambition.org.uk/work-for-us/current-vacancies/
About Ambition Institute
- Ambition Institute
- 2 Bridge Wharf, 156 Caledonian Road
- London
- N1 9UU
- United Kingdom
Ambition Institute is a national education charity. We design and deliver professional development for educators at every stage – from new teachers through to CEOs leading multiple schools, and all the crucial teaching and leadership roles in between.
Children from disadvantaged backgrounds don’t do as well at school. We are working to change that by building an education system where every child can thrive, no matter what their background. We run training programmes for teachers, school leaders and system leaders who serve children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Our programmes support educators at every stage – from new teachers through to leaders of groups of schools.
We have c.350 staff at Ambition, who work across the country on a hybrid working basis, and we have offices in Manchester, Birmingham, and London. We are lucky enough to recruit talented and energetic people from all walks of life, who are driven by our mission and committed to our organisational value to ‘keep getting better’ in all that we do.
Mission: We are working for a fair society built on an education system where every child can thrive, no matter what their background.
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