Professional Development Manager (Trainer Quality)

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 700 trainers worldwide, ensuring high standards in selection, accreditation, development, and quality assurance., In this role, you will:

• Organise and lead selection events to recruit skilled trainers in the UK and globally (occasional international flights/travel required).
• 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 (PD).
• Lead our trainer Trainer Continuous Professional Development programme: planning, preparing and collaborating with consultants and colleagues to lead virtual workshops, upskilling courses and syllabus updates to support our trainers to continuously enhance their skills and knowledge.
• Drive our observation programme to uphold high standards in professional development delivery, continually assessing and refining what 'good' PD looks like.
• Regularly review and innovate processes to optimise efficiency and resource use.
  
  Are you passionate about empowering trainers to deliver high-quality professional development for educators?, 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 data, 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.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge., Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is 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 is 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.

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. 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