Head of Secondary Curriculum

3 months ago

Cambridge, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press & Assessment Full time

Job Title: Head of Secondary Curriculum

**Salary**: £60,400 - £80,800 per annum

Location: Cambridge/Hybrid

Contract: Permanent/Full Time (35 hours per week)
- This is a new role, created in order to lead the innovative programme defining the future of our Secondary curriculum. It provides an exciting opportunity to help ensure that Cambridge learners are ready for the world._

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

**About the role**

Ensuring that our overarching Cambridge curriculum vision, aims and principles are embedded within all elements of Cambridge Secondary (11-19) pathways, you will support the creation and development of our customer propositions.

You will need to set out and communicate a strong clear vision, establishing a coherent curriculum framework for the 11-19 pathway, managing and negotiating dependencies when working towards a holistic simplified products suite and ensuring fit with customer requirements as well as Cambridge principles, priorities and strategic initiatives.

Developing the overarching design for the relationship between curriculum, pedagogy and assessment for Cambridge Secondary programmes, you will ensure coherence and robust progression that will support the development of products and services to support future work, including supporting formative assessment.

**About you**

With deep knowledge and understanding of the UK and international education systems, you will be confident in your ability to create and develop coherent customer propositions. You will ideally have developed curricula and / or assessments beyond individual school contexts.

You will be experienced in developing effective networks and in influencing stakeholders at multiple levels, as well as leading your own team. Able to identify and focus on priorities, you will be skilled in motivating teams and ultimately delivering the highest quality outcomes for Cambridge and its customers.

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

**Rewards and benefits**

***We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Group personal pension scheme
- Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
- Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

**Why join us**
- Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration._
- #LI-SP1_

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