Associate Programme Leader – Teacher Development

About UCL Institute of Education

Founded in 1902, UCL Institute of Education has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.

The Department of Learning and Leadership (DLL) is a large specialist research and teaching department of approximately 110 academic staff. The department is a major world leader in the following subject areas: Early Years and Primary Education, Educational Leadership, Education Policy, and Initial Teacher Education (ITE). We value innovative research, teaching and enterprise in all these areas and combine the very best of research innovation and evidence-based teaching, with a strong commitment to translating our work into policy and practice.

About the role

Programme Leaders in the Centre for Educational Leadership are creative, motivated and solution focused leaders of both programmes and people with successful, credible experience in the leadership of learning, equity and diversity.

The successful candidate will work collaboratively with existing Programme Leaders and Professional Services teams to ensure the success of UCL’s Early Career Teacher Development Programme. This programme is delivered to circa 17,000 Early Career Teachers and Mentors annually, and the purpose of this role is to ensure that, as the ITTECF programme develops, there is a continued focus on high-quality delivery at scale.

As this is a development opportunity, the successful candidate will also be afforded the opportunity to work flexibly across CEL’s portfolio of leadership and consultancy programmes as needed, to support and promote a coherent offer to educational leaders. This seconded role may include working with groups of regional partners and involve some national and international travel.

This post, offered on a secondment basis, will include working with groups of regional partners and may involve some national and international travel.

The successful applicant would remain an employee of their current organisation retaining their terms and conditions of employment, but we will work with your current employer to reimburse appropriate costs.

We will work with you and your employer to set up a formal secondment agreement.

This post is available until 31^st July 2027 in the first instance.

Any informal enquiries regarding this role can be directed to Mark Quinn, Deputy Programme Director, Early Career Teacher Development at or Hilary Adli, Director, Teacher and Leadership Development, UCL at

About you

You will be a successful career as a school leader with demonstrable knowledge of current teacher and leadership development models and leadership policy and practices.

You will have an excellent understanding of current education policy in London and national contexts and substantial experience of developing collaborative working relationships with external partners and stakeholders including Teaching School Hubs and groups of Schools.

Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.

It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.

Customer advert reference: B16-02147

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