Consultancy opportunities

One of the best ways we can support teachers and school leaders is by involving external consultants, for example as coaches or facilitators. These consultants bring valuable real-life experience, helping to shape the design and delivery of our programmes.

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What do we mean by external consultants?

We're looking for a range of knowledge and experience in external consultants. You might be a serving teacher, someone with senior leadership experience, or someone who has recent or extensive experience in a particular educational domain or pedagogy.


Types of opportunities we offer

Any opportunities we have available will be posted in the ‘live opportunities’ section below.
Examples of consultancy roles we have advertised previously include:
> Coaching or mentoring
> Facilitator roles
> Assessor roles on our NPQ programmes
> Programme content design
> Research opportunities

Live Vacancies

Early Headship Coaching

We are looking for serving headteachers with 5+ years experience to join our team of coaches for our Early Headship Coaching Offer programme cohort starting in December. We’re specifically recruiting in the following area:

  • Heads of Pupil Referral Unit or Alternative Provisions in the South West of England

If you think you meet the person specification outlined in the Job Description, please contact us with a brief overview of your interest/suitability, and CV at [email protected]. We will review applications on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply as early as possible, but no later than 13th November.

Our consultancy recruitment process

The recruitment process across our consultancy agreements involve;
- Signing of a formal contract upon successful application
- Completion of two professional reference checks
- Review of all necessary policies as outlined in the consultancy agreement, e.g. safeguarding

Information about the recruitment processes per role can be found in the formal job description.

Equality and diversity

As a charity dedicated to professional development, we also want to keep getting better ourselves. We respect diverse backgrounds and expertise, and we support and challenge our staff to do high quality work. Our roles are inclusive to those who require flexibility, whether that be to fit alongside other roles or to support with caring responsibilities.

Equality and diversity matter to us. If you think you’d be suited to one of our roles we’d love to hear from you regardless of age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexuality.

If you require any reasonable adjustments, please do let us know when you submit your application so that we can ensure you provide the necessary support through your application process.

If you are looking for in-house roles find these here.