Professional Development Manager (Content) - 6108

Cambridge University Press & Assessment; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading academic publisher is seeking a Professional Development Manager to create high-quality training materials for educators. This role is pivotal in supporting teaching assistants and teachers, requiring excellent organizational skills and experience in educational content development. You will drive the creation of bespoke programs, working with a collaborative team in a hybrid environment.

Benefits

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

Qualifications

• Experience managing high-quality teacher training materials.
• Excellent accuracy and attention to detail.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Manage the end-to-end process of producing training content.
• Collaborate with consultants and respond to feedback.
• Ensure content meets quality standards and is fit-for-purpose.

Skills

Organisational skills

Attention to detail

Managing multiple demands

Education

Degree and teaching qualification

Job description

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Job Title: Professional Development Manager (Content)

Salary: £34,500 - £44,850

Location: Cambridge (UK), Hybrid

Contract: Fixed Term Contract/Secondment (12 Months), Full-time 35 hours per week

Are you interested in contributing to the future of professional development and making a meaningful impact in an organisation dedicated to educational excellence?

This is an exciting opportunity to join a passionate and dynamic team, providing world-class training programmes to support teaching assistants, teachers and school leaders around the world.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About The Role

You will support Partnership for Education by managing the end-to-end process of producing high-quality content for multiple, bespoke training programmes for teaching assistants, teachers and school leaders. The post holder will devise the brief, commission consultants to write and review the content, collaborate with consultants to hone and revise content based on feedback to ensure it is fit-for-purpose.

As part of this role, you will:

• Manage the end-to-end process of producing new, bespoke professional development programme content for teaching assistants, teachers and school leaders
• Manage multiple consultants to ensure the production of quality content which fulfils the brief, meets quality standards, and is fit-for purpose
• Advise on effective pedagogy and professional development practice
• Respond to, and manage, feedback from internal and external stakeholders.
  
  

About You

As our next Professional Development Manager (Content), you'll need to have experience of managing the development of high-quality teacher training materials, including the management of multiple consultants. You'll have excellent accuracy and attention to detail with the ability to work under pressure, prioritising your workload to tight deadlines. You'll be highly responsive and adaptable, as well as being comfortable managing competing and evolving demands.

Additionally, you will bring:

• A degree and teaching qualification
• Excellent organisational skills
• Experience of developing materials for teacher professional development.
  
  

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

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
  
  

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 4th July 2025. Interviews planned to take place from mid-July onwards.

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.

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