Overview
Employment status: Full time
Job location: Work from home, meet occasionally in London
Pre-interview tasks sent: Week of the 23rd March
Zoom interviews: 9th and 10th April
Job start date: September 2026 (with potential flexibility to start earlier for induction purposes, dependent on candidate availability)
Salary: £60,000-£70,000 dependent on experience
Application closing date: Friday 20th March
We’re looking for an experienced school or trust leader of teaching & learning with a background in the primary phase. We are particularly keen to receive applications from candidates who have successfully developed teaching in primary schools through whole-school instructional coaching programmes, ideally using the Steplab model. We’re also keen to receive applications who have experience of leading professional development at trust-level.
You should be well versed in contemporary educational research, pedagogy and leadership, with a particular focus on understanding the best ways to help teachers to improve their practice and learn effectively. You should be as comfortable engaging in educational research around how teachers learn as you are working with school leaders and coaches.
About Steplab
At Steplab, we’re on a mission to transform the lives of young people by giving teachers, coaches and school leaders simple, effective and powerful tools to systematically improve. We use the best available research on professional development and instructional coaching to create content, build tools and share knowledge that helps schools implement PD that really works.
We are a web-based content, tools & systems provider, providing coaches with the content & tools to deliver high quality instructional coaching and improve their coaching knowledge & skills. We provide leaders with exceptional data on the quality and content of their coaching programmes, along with systems to effectively improve the quality of their coaching programme & culture of their school. Finally, we equip T&L leaders with the content & knowledge to build their own highly effective shared language to drive Instructional Coaching and teacher development.
Your responsibilities
Your role is to provide trust and school leaders with everything they need to implement high impact professional development.
The role includes:
* Running masterclasses and 1:1 support sessions with school and trust leaders to design impactful PD programmes
* Presenting Steplab’s PD approach to school leaders via expert demos - exploring their needs and finding solutions for how Steplab can help
* Delivering high quality in-person Steplab training to school leaders and coaches
* Presenting at educational conferences and trust events
* Responding to queries from school leaders to help maximise their use of Steplab
* Helping to develop our PD & tools
Our productivity tools include Notion, Slack, Google Workspace and more. You’ll be given a MacBook to work on and whatever kit is needed for the role.
Skills and experience
Essential
* Experience of working as a leader of teacher development, ideally at trust-level, within and across primary schools
* Familiar with contemporary educational research on pedagogy and leadership, with a particular focus on understanding the best ways to help teachers learn
* Experience of having led, or participated in, Instructional Coaching
* Experience in delivering high-quality PD to teachers and/or leaders
* Have a high standard of written and verbal communications
* Be great at building relationships with a wide range of teachers, coaches, middle, and senior leaders
* Have exceptional organisation, planning and administrative abilities, including the ability to prioritise own and others’ workloads
* Able to offer high-quality customer service, taking ownership of queries and problem-solving
Please note, for this role, we are only accepting applications from candidates with primary phase experience. If your experience is in secondary schools, we will hold your application for potential future roles but it will not be considered for this role. If your experience is in secondary education, please make this clear in your application to help us retain your CV for future opportunities.
The team
You’ll work with a team of over thirty highly motivated and dedicated individuals.
How to apply
Send a CV and maximum one page covering letter to hello@steplab.co before noon on Friday 20th March. In your covering letter, share why you would be a great fit for this role.
If you have any questions, or want to talk it through, please do reach out to rachel@steplab.co
What’s great about Steplab?
* 📈 Fantastic career progression
* 🌴 28 days of paid leave
* 🏥 Fully comprehensive private health care
* ✈️ Opportunities for international travel
* 🚅 Fun, fast-paced startup environment
Visit https://steplab.co for more.
FAQs
What’s the remote working policy?
We have an office in central London, in Highbury and Islington. We tend to come in around once per month, but we’re really flexible if you want to come in more than that. If you want to come in 5 days a week, that’s fine too. You’ll just get to meet the whole team more regularly!
Will I get to spend any time in schools?
We believe that the entire Steplab team, whether you work in technology, support or teacher training, should get to experience the good Steplab does, day in day out, hands-on. That’s why we make sure that the entire team gets to spend some time in schools, seeing how Steplab works. We believe this is how we make a product that really works.
Do you have an office dog?
* Of course! Mosi lives with our CTO, Ben, and she often comes to the office with him and Myrtle lives with Abbie and occasionally gatecrashes!
#J-18808-Ljbffr