Senior Languages Curriculum and Professional Learning Developer

About us IOE is UCL Faculty of Education and Society. 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 have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject. The Department of Culture, Communication and Media (CCM) is a department of IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. It is committed to excellence in teaching, research and consultancy in the areas of: Media and Cultural Studies, Art, Design and Museology; Academic writing; English education: Applied Linguistics; Music Education; Multimodality studies; Learning with Digital Technologies. You will be located in the International Centre for Intercultural Studies. The Centre promotes intellectually rigorous, practically relevant and interdisciplinary Intercultural Studies that advance understanding of the role of culture in society, education and communication and inform intercultural practices and policy. About the role You will work with the NCLE Director, the Director of Strategic Learning Futures and the NCLE team to develop and deliver a national CPD programme for Language Hub Lead School specialist teachers and all teachers of Languages, including support for Home, Heritage and Community Languages, across the 9 government regions in England. The CPD offer will be hybrid, involving face-to-face and virtual training, supported by digital modules that can be completed asynchronously. You will collaborate with colleagues in IOE, IOE NCLE and IOE CI to play a significant role in supporting the successful delivery of the new DFE-funded nationwide Language Hubs Programme. This post may be offered on a secondment basis either for UCL staff or from a school. Please note there is the possibility of job share. The post is funded to 2nd March 2026 in the first instance. About you You will have extensive experience of working in or with state secondary schools in England and experience of writing curriculum materials and assessments for Spanish, French and/or German. Qualified teacher status is desirable. 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 As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more. Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s 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’s 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. For a full job description and to apply for this role please click on the 'Apply' button above.