Regional Senior Professional Education Development Manager

Regional Senior Professional Education Development Manager

Job Title: Regional Senior Professional Education Development Manager

Contract: Permanent, Full time

Passionate about enhancing teaching and learning? Apply now and help shape the future of education in the SEAP region.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge. We are seeking a SEAP Regional Senior Professional Education Development Manager to lead, design, and deliver professional learning development (PLD) for current and aspiring Cambridge schools, school leaders, and teachers. This role is crucial in implementing Cambridge's strategy to provide high-quality teaching and learning support across the SEAP region.

About The Role

As the SEAP Regional Senior Professional Education Development Manager, you will work with schools and other organisations to expand their understanding of teaching, learning, and assessment. Demonstrating thought leadership as you take forward initiatives to support aspiring schools, develop School Readiness and School Continuous Improvement programs, and analyse the regional education climate to ensure our support meets the latest trends. Your responsibilities will also include:

• Strategic oversight of trainer selection and development, line managing the PLD Delivery Manager and the Regional PLD Specialist and collaborating with Cambridge-based teams to ensure the successful delivery of training events.
• Effectively managing multiple responsibilities whilst influencing and negotiating with key senior level stakeholders.
• Nurturing strategic partnerships and contributing to the design and review of training and support for teachers and school leaders.
• Managing the quality assurance of the regional partners and associates (local trainers) for Cambridge PDQs and Learning Resource training.

About You

• It is essential that you have an internationally recognised degree and postgraduate qualification or experience in a related field. You are a recognised thought leader who brings demonstrable experience and expertise in professional learning and development for teachers.
• You are a trained and quality-assured workshop leader/professional learning and development facilitator for adult learners.
• Demonstrate a good understanding of SEAP Regional Education Systems - Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia.
• Strategic thinking ability with budget management and decision-making skills, and you can work well both independently and as part of a team.
• You have experience of strategic management in a commercial educational environment and understand pedagogy and active learning as they relate to the professional learning and development of teacher practitioners.
• Your excellent oral and written skills in English, along with your ability to make and maintain positive professional relationships at all levels, are essential.
• A successful career as a Cambridge teacher is desirable.

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.

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 19th March 2025 and interviews will take place later in March. We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested in this exciting opportunity, we encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.

We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, all applications must be submitted via our official online application form. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

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, 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.