Professional Development Expert in Leadership

Role: Professional Development Expert

Team: Leadership Academy (LM7)

Package: Pension, Unlimited leave, Flexible working

Location: Remote working

Working Hours: Full or Part time. Minimum 3 days per week

Salary: Dependent on experience

Corndel is seeking exceptional senior leaders to join our Professional Development Expert (PDE) Team to deliver a first class coaching and training programme for senior managers and leaders. To be successful in this role, you must have demonstrable senior leadership experience at both a strategic and commercial level.

We are looking for people who understand the complexities, challenges, rewards and opportunities of senior leadership and want to pass on their knowledge and skills in conjunction with an accredited and highly acclaimed qualification to help others succeed. As part of your development, we will enable you to achieve a professional teaching qualification so prior teaching/training experience is not necessary although it is a bonus.

As a Corndel Professional Development Expert, you will provide first-class coaching, mentoring and training to develop and progress senior leaders working with some of the largest and highest profile businesses in the UK.

You will join a company which is breaking new ground and offering a more intelligent, dynamic, and achievable way of developing people through a world class programme of vocational learning. Corndel delivers a range of programmes, including Leadership and Management, Project Management, Data Analytics, DevOps, Software Development and Fundraising.

You will:

• Manage a caseload of learners, mentoring, coaching and equipping them to become better leaders / to develop modern business fundamentals and to apply these new skills in their roles
• Take our theoretical course content and tailor it for each individual learner that you are supporting through regular teaching sessions and workshops
• Support your caseload of learners to complete all Corndel training material and assessment tasks in a timely manner
• Work in partnership with Imperial College Business School to deliver our market-leading Executive Development Programme through a mix of coaching, workshops and group sessions
• Ensure that each of your learners is working on their respective qualification, accepts the value of it, is making progress and is actively pursuing it as a means of furthering their career
• Work with key stakeholders to support learner progress and client delight
• Ultimately you will be judged on the number of learners successfully completing the qualification, and the satisfaction of each learner and their line manager with the Corndel programme
• Potential to manage client account relationships from an operational perspective
• Evidence a commitment to the values of Corndel and an understanding of the transformational impact of education.

KPI’s – by cohort typically 45 senior leaders

• Teaching a cohort of learners through their Imperial College / Corndel Executive Development Programme
• Ensuring over 85% of learners achieve their qualification(s) on time
• Meeting regular milestones for each learner to present a compliant portfolio of evidence
• Supporting learners to complete their portfolio within the set timescales and to the highest standard possible
• Timetabling and holding one-to-one teaching sessions regularly
• Facilitating workshops that engage, motivate and educate the learner
• Engaging with the learners’ line managers on a quarterly basis to review progress
• Adhering to all compliance requirements for the qualification
• Supporting the Skills for Business team to engage learners through Maths & English qualification where relevant

Person Specification

Corndel is looking for exceptional talent, people who want to make a difference and who are used to working hard and achieving personal success. People who understand the complexities, challenges, satisfaction and frustrations of being a senior leader and want to pass on their knowledge and skills in conjunction with a comprehensive and highly acclaimed qualification to help others succeed.

We are searching for people who can demonstrate the following attributes.

Personality and Attitude

• A self-starter and self-manager who can engage people, keep them engaged and progressing through the qualification
• Want to teach and ensure learning is taking place
• A can-do and upbeat attitude to work, colleagues, clients and managers
• An inquisitive mind, able to find things out and problem solve.
• Solutions focussed with detailed attention to both the outcomes and the inputs to secure them
• With integrity and standards that mirror those of Corndel – where people and success matter
• A passion for continued professional and personal development and a desire and pleasure in seeing others develop and succeed
• A person who wants to make a difference.

Skills

• Ability to understand people and tailor solutions to meet each person’s particular learning style and situation. Working together to create the right and best method of success for each learner
• Organised, knowing where each learner is on the programme and keeping clear and comprehensive records to manage learner, employer, awarding body and Ofsted expectations
• Focussing time and attention on every learner to ensure they achieve their qualification, always keeping the main goal in sight and adapting where necessary to meet these goals
• A natural enabler and facilitator of people, processes and situations
• A good listener.

Knowledge and experience

• Demonstrable senior leadership experience
• Ideally hold a coaching qualification
• Understanding what it is like to be a leader and able to offer practical advice and support for the day-to-day issues that all leaders face
• An understanding of what it is like to be mentored, and to mentor managers to complete a comprehensive package of practical leadership and management training
• A solid understanding of Apprenticeship delivery requirements including the importance of quality assurance, and awarding organisation requirements
• A confident user of IT with a willingness and aptitude to learn a new system and a capability to apply and share this with all managers and colleagues.

As part of our commitment to create an inclusive workplace where all colleagues can be their true selves, excel in their roles and progress in their careers, we recognise the importance of embracing the diversity in the working population and making Corndel a fully accessible employer.

As Corndel is a Disability Confident Employer, we make sure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a job will be offered an interview. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, when submitting your application, please select the appropriate option to let us know that you have a disability. Please note this does not mean that all disabled people are entitled to an interview, in some recruitment situations such as peak times, we might need to limit the overall numbers of interviews we offer.

If you have a disability that might affect any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know about any help or reasonable adjustments you need before any interview or assessment. We’ll work with you to make sure any appropriate support is in place and make the application process a more positive experience.

Corndel is committed to safeguarding and safer recruitment practices, and will undertake pre-employment checks on the successful candidate, including Enhanced DBS Disclosure and a Barred List Check.