Careers Professional Development Manager

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 600 trainers worldwide, ensuring high standards in recruitment, accreditation, development, and quality assurance. As part of Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world leader in academic publishing and assessment, you'll contribute to a future-focused team dedicated to supporting educators and driving excellence in professional development. About the Role In this role, you will:

• Organise and lead selection events to recruit skilled trainers in the UK and globally (occasional international travel required: approximately two weeks per year).
• 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.
• Lead our trainer PD programme, managing subject networks, workshops, and upskilling courses to ensure trainers continuously enhance their skills.
• Drive our observation programme to uphold high standards in PD delivery, continually assessing and refining what 'good' PD looks like.
• Regularly review and innovate processes to optimise efficiency and resource use.
  
  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 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.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry. 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. Why join us Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's 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's 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 Documents

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