Professional Development Manager (Trainer Quality) Full Time NEW

Salary: £35,200 – £45,700

Location: Cambridge, Hybrid

Contract: Fixed Term/Secondment (12 months)

Hours: Full time  35 hours per week

Are you passionate about empowering trainers to deliver high-quality professional development for educators?

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 700 trainers worldwide, ensuring high standards in selection, accreditation, development, and quality assurance.

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  

In this role, you will:

• Organise and lead selection events to recruit skilled trainers in the UK and globally (occasional international flights/travel required).
• 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 (PD).
• Lead our trainer Trainer Continuous Professional Development programme: planning, preparing and collaborating with consultants and colleagues to lead virtual workshops, upskilling courses and syllabus updates to support our trainers to continuously enhance their skills and knowledge.
• Drive our observation programme to uphold high standards in professional development delivery, continually assessing and refining what ‘good’ PD looks like.
• Regularly review and innovate processes to optimise efficiency and resource use.

Please note that international travel may be required: approximately two weeks per year.

This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition. 

About You  

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 data, 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.

For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.

We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme’s Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long-term health condition, and best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition.

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.

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  

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be Midnight on Wednesday, 24th June. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place Tuesday, 7th and Wednesday 8th July.

If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect: 

• First stage virtual interview via MS Teams: 1-hour face-to-face interview at the Triangle in Cambridge (in extenuating circumstances we may agree to do this via MS Teams). You will be provided with a brief to complete three role-related tasks (including a presentation) which will need to be returned by email in advance of your interview.
• In certain circumstances we may continue to second stage interviews via MS Teams although we hope to make a decision after the 1h face-to-face interviews.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs. 

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

We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter. 

Why join us 

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is 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 is 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.