Job Description
About The National College
At The National College, part of National Education Group, we empower your workforce to transform children's lives. Our all-in-one platform helps schools, trusts and nurseries stay compliant, raise standards, and reduce staff workload — all through intuitive, powerful software.
If educators need it, we build it.
We’ve created a unique platform combining the world’s largest CPD and policy library with custom-built tools — developed in collaboration with thousands of schools and over 1,000 education experts.
The Role
We are now looking for a Software Delivery Manager to join our Technology team, supporting the delivery of innovative EdTech solutions.
In this role, you’ll be at the heart of our software delivery– coordinating cross-team efforts, aligning timelines, and ensuring our products and services reach education providers smoothly and successfully. Your work will directly support our mission of empowering education workforces through high-quality digital solutions. You will play an active role in the operational leadership of the business, contributing to cross-functional planning and decision making and providing visibility for the velocity and quality of development.
Experience
Required
* Excellent experience of software delivery in a variety of agile and lean delivery structures, with an outcome-focussed approach.
* Demonstrable technical knowledge to be able to create, drive, innovate and assess technical solutions across software technologies, processes and platforms.
* High level understanding of development process and code to support removal of blockers and ensure development velocity.
* •Structured thinking and detail centric approach, able to lead breaking down and resolving complex and ambiguous problems in time-pressured environments, recognising and balancing technical against operational and commercial factors.
* Strong communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
* Comfortable using delivery management tools (e.g. Jira) to track and report progress, risks, and outcomes, and development tools (e.g. GitHub).
* High level of curiosity, with a genuine passion for finding and implementing innovative solutions for business problems through technology.
Preferred
* Familiarity with learning management systems (LMS), subscription products, or B2B SaaS models would be advantageous.
* Experience working in the edtech, education, or e-learning sectors.
Preferred Qualifications
* A Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field is preferred.
* A professional certification in project or delivery management (e.g. Agile, Scrum, Project Management) would be advantageous.
* Plan and coordinate software delivery activities across multiple teams, ensuring alignment with commercial and operational goals across the business.
* Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders to manage timelines, priorities, and dependencies.
* Track timescales, delivery progress, manage risks, and ensure appropriate escalation and communication of blockers or changes.
* Maintain delivery plans, ensuring transparency across the business.
* Be responsible for the generation and reporting of team metrics, including velocity and quality
* Communicate regularly with key stakeholders to provide updates, align expectations, and resolve issues.
* Contribute to the continuous improvement of delivery practices, tools, and frameworks.
* Stay informed on developments education technology, and software delivery best practices to drive innovation in how we deliver products and services
Why Us?
At The National College, we’re passionate about helping organisations grow and thrive through knowledge and connection. As a Digital Consultant for Early Years, you’ll be part of a company that values people, encourages personal development, and celebrates success. You’ll work with people who value collaboration, innovation, and high standards.
You'll also be able to benefit from:
* Life Assurance
* Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Shared Parental and Adoption Pay
* 24/7 Online GP
* Mental Health & Wellbeing support
* Charity Day
* 25 Days Holiday, Rising to 30 days
* Professional Study Support
* Plus more