Professional Development Manager

5 days ago

Cambridge, United Kingdom CV-Library Full time

Professional Development Manager (Trainer Quality)

Salary: £33,300 - £43,400

Location: Cambridge, Hybrid

Contract: Fixed Term (12 Months), Full time, 35 hours per week

Are you passionate about empowering trainers to deliver high-quality professional development for educators?

We're looking for a motivated Professional Development Manager on a fixed term contract basis to shape our global trainer management and development. Join us in making a lasting impact on over 600 trainers worldwide, ensuring high standards in recruitment, accreditation, development, and quality assurance.

As part of Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world leader in academic publishing and assessment, you'll contribute to a future-focused team dedicated to supporting educators and driving excellence in professional development.

About the Role

In this role, you will:

* Organise and lead selection events to recruit skilled trainers in the UK and globally (occasional international travel required: approximately two weeks per year).

* Develop and coordinate our online induction course for trainers, and manage mentoring and co-facilitation programmes to support trainers in their initial and ongoing professional development.

* Lead our trainer PD programme, managing subject networks, workshops, and upskilling courses to ensure trainers continuously enhance their skills.

* Drive our observation programme to uphold high standards in PD delivery, continually assessing and refining what ‘good' PD looks like.

* Regularly review and innovate processes to optimise efficiency and resource use.

About You

You hold a degree and a postgraduate qualification in teaching, with a demonstrable and significant level of experience teaching in primary, secondary, or further education. You bring a solid understanding of effective teaching practices, reflective professional development, and—ideally—experience in international education and project management.

Your skills include clear communication, facilitation, and effective time management, alongside the ability to work autonomously with high attention to detail. You are proficient in IT, and experienced in project leadership, negotiation, and influencing.As a team player, you're responsible, adaptable, and collaborate well with colleagues and partners from diverse backgrounds. You empower others to grow and continuously seek ways to improve processes, working with agility to meet evolving needs.

Join us in shaping the future of professional development for educators worldwide

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.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 24th November 2024 and interviews are scheduled to take place between 3rd - 4th December 2024. We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested in this exciting opportunity, we encourage you to submit your application as early as possible. We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, all applications must be submitted via our official online application form. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Please note that Cambridge University Press & Assessment will not ordinarily be able to provide sponsorship for vacancies of less than 12-months in duration. Applicants must therefore have an existing right to work in the UK to be eligible for this position.

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.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.

Professional Development Manager (Trainer Quality)

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