Job Title: Head of Secondary Curriculum
Salary: £60,400 - £80,800 per annum
Location: Cambridge/Hybrid
Contract: Permanent/Full Time (35 hours per week)
This is a new role, created in order to lead the innovative programme defining the future of our Secondary curriculum. It provides an exciting opportunity to help ensure that Cambridge learners are ready for 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 YOU

With deep knowledge and understanding of the UK and international education systems, you will be confident in your ability to create and develop coherent customer propositions. You will ideally have developed curricula and / or assessments beyond individual school contexts.
You will be experienced in developing effective networks and in influencing stakeholders at multiple levels, as well as leading your own team. Able to identify and focus on priorities, you will be skilled in motivating teams and ultimately delivering the highest quality outcomes for Cambridge and its customers.
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.

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.

LI-SP

Ensuring that our overarching Cambridge curriculum vision, aims and principles are embedded within all elements of Cambridge Secondary (11-19) pathways, you will support the creation and development of our customer propositions.
You will need to set out and communicate a strong clear vision, establishing a coherent curriculum framework for the 11-19 pathway, managing and negotiating dependencies when working towards a holistic simplified products suite and ensuring fit with customer requirements as well as Cambridge principles, priorities and strategic initiatives.
Working closely with the Products & Services team, you will set the priorities for products and services for Cambridge Secondary (11-19) programmes, applying and demonstrating portfolio management discipline, and overseeing the commercial performance of portfolio elements.
Developing the overarching design for the relationship between curriculum, pedagogy and assessment for Cambridge Secondary programmes, you will ensure coherence and robust progression that will support the development of products and services to support future work, including supporting formative assessment.