Regional Director (Partnerships)

Employment Type: Full-time (5 days a week) or part-time (minimum of 80% FTE)

Location: Hybrid · United Kingdom Leeds Nationwide: 1 day a week in Leeds office, 2-3 days a week national travel to partners & team events

Salary: £47,154 - £70,821 (GBP) This is a base salary of £47,154-£54,478, with performance-related pay of up to 30% of total income

Team: TEP

Seniority: Senior

• Closing: 11:59pm, 6th Apr 2025 BST

Job Description

Applications close at 23:59 on Sunday 6th April 2025.

The Engagement Platform (TEP)

Our Vision: An education system where school engagement is consistently understood and acted on to improve pupil outcomes, employee culture and community relations.

Our Mission: The Engagement Platform exists to support schools and Trusts to easily, robustly and systematically understand and improve the engagement of pupils and students, parents and carers, employees and community stakeholders.

TEP exists to support schools and trusts to easily, robustly and systematically understand and improve school engagement. As a platform, TEP captures and reports on engagement across various dimensions and stakeholder groups: pupils and students, parents and carers, employees and community stakeholders. TEP helps schools to understand and act on this data. The platform's ability to track changes over time enables schools to measure the impact of their interventions, ensuring that their engagement strategies are effective and adjusted as needed. This action-oriented approach ensures that school engagement is not simply a metric or backward-looking accountability tool, it is core to school improvement.

Alongside providing detailed school and Multi-Academy Trust level insights, we are building the national evidence base around school engagement as a lead indicator. Our research unit provides national insights and research publications to support school level insight and build better sector understanding of school employee engagement. We engage with the TEP school community to provide research insights, case studies and best practice examples to support their practice.

The Role

This external facing role will involve selling TEP, building new partnerships and networking with senior leaders across the UK Education Sector to maximise TEP’s impact. There may be multiple regions available, e.g. Northern or Southern England. The successful candidate(s) will have an excellent track record of building relationships with schools and trusts to reach strategic targets and stewarding high value partnerships.

About You

We are open to a range of backgrounds though it is likely that the successful candidate will have significant experience working in schools or education and have experience in selling products or developing partnerships with school leaders. This role offers hybrid working with 2-3 days per week in the office or on the road. You should be willing to travel across the UK for conferences, events, and client meetings (approximately 50% of your time).

We are looking for some of the following attributes, though you might be more experienced in some areas than others:

1. Experience working within or closely with UK schools or multi-academy trusts
2. Demonstrable track record in partnership development, account management, or educational sales
3. Experience presenting to and negotiating with senior education leaders (Headteachers, CEOs, Directors)
4. Strong understanding of school budgeting cycles and decision-making processes
5. Experience delivering presentations or public speaking to large audiences.