You will have a significant amount of experience in implementing strategies to support learner engagement, persistence and satisfaction. Planning, organisational development and implementation of educational initiatives are also a requirement of the role.

You will advocate Tes’ organisational values, model high expectations in the quality of teacher training, and continue to develop academic delivery across Institute. You will provide a high level of expertise in academic focused solutions, ensuring strong top-down leadership and accountability, to ensure staff and learners have the right resources to ensure effective learner progress, passion for life-long learning and career development, with the skills to positively influence our community and society.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic and operational delivery of outstanding teacher training and development education of Tes Institute programmes.
• Lead the strategic growth and development of a programme portfolio, identifying opportunities to expand, adapt and strengthen programmes in line with learner needs, sector developments, regulatory requirements and commercial priorities.
• Effectively manage Heads of Programme Delivery in your team, ensuring an unwavering focus on high-quality, compliant delivery and outcomes within each programme.
• Through your Programme leadership team, ensure strong coordination and collaboration across programmes to enable consistency, efficacy and strategic use of skillset.
• Identify needs, source support and build capacity within your team.
• Champion growth in programme leadership and development of your leaders, with an awareness of talent and succession planning.
• Attend and input into all external relationship activity, such as international bodies, Ofsted, MAT/LA and DfE assurance and governance activity, ensuring Institute performance is scrutinised, supported, and held to account.
• Act as an externally facing expert in teacher training and development education, representing Tes Institute with sector bodies, partners, schools and wider stakeholders, and contributing to thought leadership that strengthens Tes Institute’s profile, credibility and influence.
• Work closely and collaborate with wider Tes functions to ensure strong operational and compliant delivery at all stages.
• Provide industry expertise to the Director of Institute and Head of Institute Sales and Marketing in managing relationships and identifying growth opportunities.
• Provide expertise as a trained Level 3 safeguarding lead as part of the safeguarding team.

What will you need to succeed?

Experience

• Substantial education leadership experience with demonstrable strategic and operational experience across teaching, learning, curriculum and delivery. (Required).
• Proven skills in operating at a strategic level as a collaborative and supportive member of a senior team, actively engaging in decision making leading to positive learner progress and business outcomes. (Required).
• Significant experience of successfully delivering and managing teacher training and development programmes. (Required).
• Prior experience of leadership through external inspection by regulatory bodies such as Ofsted. (Required).
• Prior experience of leadership through external inspection by regulatory bodies across a broad range of teacher training programmes or as a school leader. (Desirable).
• Proven experience of managing and developing teams, inclusive of coaching and influencing staff to deliver innovative ways of working. (Required).
• Proven experience of contributing to or leading strategic programme growth, including identifying opportunities, shaping programme development and aligning delivery with organisational and commercial objectives. (Required).
• Experience of acting as an external representative, sector expert or thought leader in teacher training, teacher development or wider education, with the ability to build credibility and influence with external stakeholders. (Desirable).
• Experience of management of educational programme delivery via a blended method. (Required).

Knowledge

• Deep understanding of ongoing developments in teacher training education and the changing landscape of international teacher training needs. (Required).
• Deep understanding of routes into teaching and professional development beyond initial teacher training. (Required).

Skills

• Commercially astute and solutions focused, with the ability to identify and act on strategic growth opportunities across an educational programme portfolio. (Required).
• Proactive and innovative, collaborating with team members in other disciplines, whilst also with the ability to work flexibly and independently. (Required).
• People focused with high emotional intelligence. (Required).
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills. (Required).
• Commitment to Tes’ values and ethos. (Required).

Qualifications

• Teaching qualification (QTS) or equivalent. (Required).
• NPQH, NPQEL, NPQTLD or appropriate Masters or PhD qualification. (Desirable).