Job Description

About us

About IOE

IOE is

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.

We are UCL\xe2\x80\x99s Centre for Education Leadership (CEL), based in the heart of Bloomsbury, London\xe2\x80\x99s academic heartland. We are a Centre within the IOE, UCL\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99ve been at the centre of education in the UK for 120 years, celebrating this milestone in October 2022.

About the role

You will be responsible for ensuring the delivery of a high quality administrative service for a suite of programmes involving participants, facilitators and partners working in close collaboration with Programme Managers, Programme Leaders and administrative staff.

The programme coordinator will have responsibility for leading administrative systems and processes across the programme to support its successful delivery. This will include line management of the programme administrative team, providing support and challenge, monitoring performance and progress.

You should be pro-active in your work and demonstrate excellent leadership skills.

This post is available immediately and is funded to 31 December 2026 in the first instance.

If you would like to discuss the post informally, please contact Shamim Sobur @ s.sobur@ucl.ac.uk.

About you

You will have the ability to effectively lead and work with others cooperating and collaborating with colleagues and helping the CEL programme team to achieve its goals with experience of running large scale and/or complex projects or programmes with an awareness of the issues involved.

Experience of leading a team and line managing colleagues is essential.

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

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)
• Additional 5 days\xe2\x80\x99 annual leave purchase scheme
• 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

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London\xe2\x80\x99s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99s 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 Bronze award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.

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