Ref Number B16-01768
Professional Expertise Teaching, Teaching Support and Examination Support
Department School of Education (B16)
Location London
Working Pattern Part time
Salary £54,172-£63,752
Contract Type Fixed-term
Working Type Hybrid
Available for Secondment Yes
Closing Date 02-May-2025
About us
IOE is UCL Faculty of Education and Society.
Founded in 1902, IOE has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just, and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.
About the Department of Culture, Communication and Media
The Department of Culture, Communication and Media (CCM) is a department of IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. It is committed to excellence in teaching, research and consultancy in the areas of: Media and Cultural Studies, Art, Design and Museology; Academic writing; English education: Applied Linguistics; Music Education; Multimodality studies; Learning with Digital Technologies.
About the role
The postholder will work with the NCLE team to complete and refine the NCLE online CPD platform and to develop and implement a series of synchronous engagement opportunities with the content of the on-line CPD. Expertise in AI in languages education will be an asset.
The post-holder will have day-to-day responsibility to develop a coherent, evidence-informed, appealing, engaging and practically relevant professional development environment for languages teachers. This includes writing curriculum material for online CPD. The post-holder will collaborate closely and build up strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders. They will ensure that the facilitated engagement opportunities with the online CPD feature high-quality speakers with relevant experience and expertise able to support the professional development of participants and reach the widest possible audience. They will liaise closely with the NCLE team to ensure that Strategic Learning Networks (SLNs) make good use of and actively contribute to the facilitation opportunities and that online CPD material provide a strong subject knowledge underpinning for the National Priority Projects.
The post-holder will take operational responsibility for and ensure overall coherence of planning, designing and developing online CPD content and for its facilitation as described above. They will also undertake associated tasks including the collection of user data and monitoring engagement as set out in the project plan supported by a Programme Administrator.
The post holder will make an active contribution towards ensuring that the NCLE meets relevant KPIs set by the funder as well as project reports.
This post is available until 2nd March 2026 in the first instance.
If you have any questions about this post, please contact Professor Norbert Pachler – n.pachler@ucl.ac.uk
About you
You will have extensive experience of working in or with state secondary schools and experience and an understanding of challenges faced in the UK school system, in particular removing system barriers and improving teaching practice
You will also have knowledge and understanding of approaches to teaching Languages in schools and an interest in developing ways to improve, and materials to enhance the curriculum.
Qualified teacher status is desirable.
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:
- 41 Days holiday: 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days (pro rata for part time staff)
- Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme (pro rata for part time staff)
- Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
- Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
- Immigration loan
- Relocation scheme for certain posts
- On-Site nursery
- On-site gym
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
- Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
- Discounted medical insurance
Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.
Our commitment to EDI
As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.
We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.
These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.
Our faculty holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.
