ABOUT UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION

Founded in 1902, UCL Institute of Education 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.
The Department of Learning and Leadership (DLL) is a large specialist research and teaching department of approximately 110 academic staff. The department is a major world leader in the following subject areas: Early Years and Primary Education, Educational Leadership, Education Policy, and Initial Teacher Education (ITE). We value innovative research, teaching and enterprise in all these areas and combine the very best of research innovation and evidence-based teaching, with a strong commitment to translating our work into policy and practice.
This post sits within UCL’s Centre for Education Leadership (CEL), based in the heart of Bloomsbury, London’s academic heartland. We are a Centre within the IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society; the IOE is ranked number 1 in the world for education in the QS World University Rankings. Working for and with the teaching profession, we are a world-leading centre for research and teaching in education and ranked outstanding by Ofsted in every criterion for our Initial Teacher Education programmes. We’ve been at the centre of education in the UK for 120 years, celebrating this milestone in October 2022.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We welcome applications from suitably qualified school leaders, particularly Induction Tutors and facilitators that are familiar with UCL’s Early Career Teacher Development Programme and who have an excellent understanding of the research base, The ITTECF.
Programme Leaders in the Centre for Educational Leadership are creative, motivated and solution-focused leaders of both programmes and people with successful, credible experience in the leadership of learning, equity and diversity.
You will work collaboratively with the ECF Programme Leader team, having strategic responsibility for specific areas across our Early Teacher Development programmes. This will include having oversight of programme management systems and processes, elements of programme design, programme delivery, quality assurance and/or supporting a group of regional Teaching School Hubs. You will also have the opportunity to work flexibly across CEL’s portfolio of leadership and consultancy programmes as needed, to support and promote a coherent offer to educational leaders.
This post, offered on a secondment basis, will include working with groups of regional partners and may involve some national and international travel.
This post is available until 31st July 2026 in the first instance.
Interviews will be held on Tuesday 14th October 2025.
Please see the candidate information pack for further details.
Any informal enquiries regarding this role can be directed to Hilary Adli, Director, Teacher and Leadership Development, UCL at h.adli@ucl.ac.uk or Mark Quinn, Deputy Programme Director ECF/ECTP at mark.quinn@ucl.ac.uk

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 insuranc