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 join a highly collaborative and supportive team. Their main responsibility will be to lead a 3-year UCL school leadership development project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Recognizing the significance of effective school leadership as a lever for system improvement, our partner in KSA has invited UCL to co-develop and support the delivery of a suite of national school leadership development programmes. This is an opportunity for the successful candidate, working with the CEL team, to make a positive impact at scale on outcomes for children in the KSA public school system.
This is a UK-based role, with frequent travel to Saudi Arabia and is available until 31st March in the first instance.
For any informal enquiries about the role, please contact Greg Ross -
About you
You will have an excellent ability to plan and organise large-scale projects with successful experience of designing and leading professional development programmes for teachers and school leaders and well as demonstrable knowledge of current teacher and leadership development models and leadership policy and practices.
You will also have substantial experience of leading, managing and motivating people effectively, with a clear understanding of equal opportunities and diversity related issues, and a commitment to teamwork.
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.
What we offer
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
1. 41 Days holiday: 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days (pro rata for part time staff)
2. Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme (pro rata for part time staff)
3. Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
4. Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
5. Immigration loan
6. Relocation scheme for certain posts
7. On-Site nursery
8. On-site gym
9. Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
10. Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
11. Discounted medical insurance