Team Management, Leadership & Performance

• Directly manage and lead Academic Leads, and Tutors within the subject area, as applicable.
• Set clear expectations, objectives and performance standards for the subject team, ensuring alignment with Blue Education’s academic quality and service standards.
• Conduct regular performance reviews, lesson observations, coaching conversations and feedback sessions.
• Build a culture of excellence, responsiveness, collaboration and intellectual ambition across the subject team.
• Identify capability gaps, manage underperformance professionally and support succession planning for future academic leaders.

Recruitment, Onboarding & Training

• Lead recruitment, selection and onboarding of academic staff within the subject discipline.
• Establish and maintain subject-specific hiring standards, sample lesson expectations and evaluation criteria.
• Design and deliver training programmes for Academic Leads, and Tutors.
• Create scalable training materials, teaching frameworks, quality guidelines and best-practice resources for the subject team.
• Ensure all new academic staff understand Blue Education’s teaching standards, communication expectations, student management processes and admissions methodology.

Academic Quality Assurance

• Establish and monitor subject-level academic KPIs, including student progress, lesson quality, report quality, admissions outcomes, retention and satisfaction.
• Implement quality assurance processes for lesson delivery, curriculum use, student feedback, tutor reporting and academic interventions.
• Review academic records, student plans and tutor performance data to ensure consistency and excellence across the subject area.
• Lead regular subject review meetings and produce clear recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Ensure academic delivery remains aligned with safeguarding, professional conduct, data protection and internal operating standards.

Family Communication & Premium Educational Consulting

• Build trusted relationships with students and families, particularly high-value and complex cases requiring senior academic input.
• Provide strategic educational consulting, long-term academic planning and senior-level advice on university placement strategy.
• Support Academic Leads and tutors in managing sensitive family communications, expectations and progression concerns.
• Ensure student and parent communication is timely, professional, accurate and commercially aware.

Business Growth & Strategic Contribution

• Partner with senior leadership to define and deliver growth strategy for the subject division.
• Contribute to revenue growth through improved student retention, programme expansion, referrals, conversion support and premium academic services.
• Identify market opportunities, competitor trends and emerging student needs to shape new programmes and services.
• Support sales, marketing and partnership activity by providing expert academic insight, webinars, workshops and public-facing thought leadership.
• Contribute to annual planning, resourcing, team capacity decisions and subject-level commercial priorities.

External Representation & Brand Building

• Represent Blue Education as a credible academic authority in meetings with parents, students, schools and external partners.
• Represent the academic team in school collaborations, external partnerships, webinars, parent seminars and public speaking engagements.
• Strengthen Blue Education’s reputation for academic excellence through high-quality content, events and strategic academic initiatives.
• Stay ahead of global education trends, admissions developments, curriculum changes and competitor positioning.
• Translate external insight into practical improvements in curriculum, teaching practice, student support and commercial offering.

Qualifications And Competencies

Teaching & Admissions Experience

• Graduate, Master’s or PhD degree from Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, Imperial College, Ivy League, or an equivalent top global university.
• Outstanding subject expertise and the credibility to lead a team of high-calibre academics and advise ambitious families.
• Minimum 1,500+ hours of teaching, tutoring or academic mentoring experience, ideally with high-achieving and university-bound students.
• Proven track record supporting students applying to Oxbridge, Ivy League or other competitive university programmes.
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose student needs, design targeted learning plans and improve academic outcomes.
• Experience handling complex or high-stakes student cases, including admissions strategy, interviews, written work and subject-specific preparation.

Leadership & Management Experience

• Minimum 2-3 years of people management or academic team leadership experience within education, tutoring, schools, higher education, admissions consulting or a related sector.
• Proven ability to lead, motivate and engage teams to achieve excellent performance.
• Experience recruiting, onboarding, training and developing teachers, tutors or academic staff.
• Confidence setting standards, giving feedback, managing performance and holding team members accountable.

Curriculum, Quality & Programme Leadership

• Experience designing curricula, academic pathways, assessments, teaching resources or enrichment programmes.
• Strong understanding of academic quality assurance, student progress tracking and teaching excellence frameworks.
• Ability to translate educational insight into scalable processes, training materials and commercially viable academic products.

Commercial & Strategic Capability

• Commercial acumen with evidence of measurable contribution to business growth, student retention, programme development, referrals, partnerships or premium service delivery.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and ability to identify opportunities that take the subject area and wider business forward.
• Comfortable working with senior leadership on planning, priorities, resourcing and strategic initiatives.

Core Skills & Personal Qualities

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to advise students, parents, tutors and senior stakeholders clearly and professionally.
• Highly organised, responsive and capable of managing multiple students, team members, deadlines and priorities.
• Strong digital literacy and confidence using online learning platforms, data tools and collaborative working systems.
• Willingness to teach and support families during evenings and weekends in peak application cycles.
• Intellectual curiosity, integrity, resilience and strong commitment to student development and educational excellence.
• Collaborative, ambitious and energised by working in a high-achieving, fast-growing academic environment.

Success Measures

• Student progress, retention, satisfaction and admissions outcomes across the subject area.
• Quality and consistency of teaching delivery, reporting and academic intervention across the team.
• Successful recruitment, onboarding, training and development of academic staff.
• Improvement and scalability of curricula, resources and subject pathways.
• Commercial contribution through growth, referrals, programme innovation and premium service quality.
• Strength and reputation of the subject area within Blue Education and the wider market.

What We Offer

• £70,000-£80,000 base salary, plus performance-based bonuses and potential equity options.
• UK work permit sponsorship for exceptional candidates, where applicable.
• A collaborative environment with colleagues from Oxford, Cambridge, Ivy League and top global universities.
• A senior leadership pathway with real influence over academic strategy, programme design, team development