Professional Development Expert

Summary

Join Corndel's Leadership Programmes team as a Professional Development Expert for a 9-15 month fixed-term contract. This remote role offers a competitive salary (£55,000-£70,000), pension, unlimited leave, and flexible working. You will coach and mentor senior leaders, tailoring training to individual needs using Corndel's and Imperial College Business School's materials. Success hinges on learner qualification completion rates and satisfaction. Demonstrable senior leadership experience and a passion for developing others are crucial. The role involves managing a caseload, delivering workshops, and collaborating with stakeholders.

Requirements

• Demonstrable senior leadership experience
• A self-starter and self-manager who can engage people, keep them engaged and progressing through the qualification
• Want to teach and ensure learning is taking place
• A can-do and upbeat attitude to work, colleagues, clients and managers
• An inquisitive mind, able to find things out and solve problems
• Solutions focused with detailed attention to both the outcomes and the inputs to secure them
• With integrity and standards that mirror those of Corndel – where people and success matter
• A passion for continued professional and personal development and a desire and pleasure in seeing others develop and succeed
• A person who wants to make a difference
• Ability to understand people and tailor solutions to meet each person’s particular learning style and situation. Working together to create the right and best method of success for each learner
• Organised, knowing where each learner is on the programme and keeping clear and comprehensive records to manage learner, employer, awarding body and Ofsted expectations
• Focussing time and attention on every learner to ensure they achieve their qualification, always keeping the main goal in sight and adapting where necessary to meet these goals
• A natural enabler and facilitator of people, processes and situations
• A good listener
• Understanding what it is like to be a leader and able to offer practical advice and support for the day-to-day issues that all leaders face
• An understanding of what it is like to be mentored, and to mentor managers to complete a comprehensive package of practical leadership and management training
• A solid understanding of Apprenticeship delivery requirements including the importance of quality assurance, and awarding organisation requirements
• A confident user of IT with a willingness and aptitude to learn a new system and a capability to apply and share this with all managers and colleagues

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of learners, mentoring, coaching and equipping them to become better leaders / to develop modern business fundamentals and to apply these new skills in their roles
• Take our theoretical course content and tailor it for each individual learner that you are supporting through regular teaching sessions and workshops
• Support your caseload of learners to complete all Corndel training material and assessment tasks in a timely manner
• Work in partnership with Imperial College Business School to deliver our market- leading Executive Development Programme through a mix of coaching, workshops and group sessions
• Ensure that each of your learners is working on their respective qualification, accepts the value of it, is making progress and is actively pursuing it as a means of furthering their career
• Work with key stakeholders to support learner progress and client delight
• Ultimately you will be judged on the number of learners successfully completing the qualification, and the satisfaction of each learner and their line manager with the Corndel programme
• Evidence a commitment to the values of Corndel and an understanding of the transformational impact of education
• Teaching a cohort of learners through their Imperial College / Corndel Executive Development Programme
• Ensuring over 85% of learners achieve their qualification(s) on time
• Meeting regular milestones for each learner to present a compliant portfolio of evidence
• Supporting learners to complete their portfolio within the set timescales and to the highest standard possible
• Timetabling and holding one-to-one teaching sessions regularly
• Facilitating workshops that engage, motivate and educate the learner
• Engaging with the learners’ line managers on a quarterly basis to review progress
• Adhering to all compliance requirements for the qualification

Preferred Qualifications

Ideally hold a coaching and or a recognised teaching qualification

Benefits

• Pension
• Unlimited leave
• Flexible working
• Remote working