Strategic Delivery Lead

7 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Ark Full time
About the Role

This is an exciting new opportunity for a highly motivated and experienced professional to join our team as a Strategic Delivery Lead. As a key member of our organization, you will play a pivotal role in driving excellence across teams and bringing cohesion to our professional development portfolio.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Redesign our engagement strategy to encourage take-up and tracking of our professional development offer
  • Collaborate with directors and heads of teams to commission and design learning and development opportunities
  • Develop our rhythm of the year detailing key training, events, tasks, and deadlines to support workflow planning
  • Oversee the cost of delivery to ensure value for money commensurate to beneficiary impact
  • Liaise with key stakeholders to ensure the content for the day is strategically and purposefully planned and designed
  • Line management of up to 5 team members
  • Facilitate a professional internal operations network, identifying professional development needs and progression opportunities
  • Oversee the rollout of our house style across our programme portfolio
  • Evaluate current systems and processes, working with programme and operations staff to draw out best practice processes and systems
  • Use aggregated feedback to generate suggestions for improvements across the offer and present and share that information with key stakeholders

Key Requirements:

  • Experience of working in a complex, multi-site environment, preferably within the education sector
  • Experience of managing brand new projects, where some scope and details are yet to be defined
  • Experience of coaching and developing staff at all levels to ensure delivery outcomes
  • Knowledge of virtual learning environments
  • Excellent negotiation and influencing skills with the ability to build positive working relationships
  • Strong organisational, project management, and planning skills
  • Excellent IT skills with specific skill in using Microsoft Office applications, especially Excel and PowerPoint
  • Able to work effectively across teams with sensitivity and respect, while developing and providing growth opportunities for others
  • Ability to build relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders, including demanding internal clients
  • An experienced and confident leader with a proven ability to lead and implement change effectively and sustainably

About Us

We're an international charity, transforming lives through education. We exist to give every young person, regardless of their background, a great education and real choices in life. In the UK, we're a network of 39 schools, educating around 30,000 pupils in areas where we can make the biggest difference. We want to change the lives of children everywhere, not just in our own schools. So, we create and incubate Ventures designed not only to help pupils in Ark schools, but also to improve education systems.

You'll be joining a group of like-minded, ambitious individuals who work collaboratively and are all committed to our core mission, that every child has the potential to succeed. Having just celebrated our 20th anniversary, we are shaping our goals for the next 20 and there has never been a more exciting time to join us.

Benefits

  • 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising with each year of service up to 30 days after 3-years' service
  • Full office closure between Christmas and New Year
  • Hybrid working, with currently two days a week in our state-of-the-art office
  • Regular social events, monthly free breakfast, and daily fruit
  • A flexible approach to working with understanding and consideration for work-life balance and personal commitments
  • As an Ark employee, you will have the opportunity to be part of the TPT (The Pension Trust) scheme, our workplace pension scheme
  • Access to high-quality professional learning throughout your career, offering both face-to-face sessions and a bespoke online learning platform
  • Access to Ark Rewards scheme offering savings from over 3,000 major retailers, interest-free loans available for season tickets or a bike, gym discounts offering up to 40% off your local gym, and free eye tests

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