About Keynote Educational

Keynote Educational is a leading national provider of one-day conferences and courses for teachers and students in the secondary education sector. The company has a strong, well established reputation for high quality, inspiring and innovative provision, currently offering over 500 courses for teachers, 50+ student conferences per year and providing over 400 CPD teacher sessions and student revision sessions to secondary schools across the UK as part of our In-School support programmes. We also offer a number of large-scale flagship conferences for senior leaders and MATS CEOs on latest priorities, key directions in the secondary education sector.

We are bold thinkers and stand out innovators, motivating each other and our external team of over 250 education specialists/course leaders and conference speakers to explore new frontiers with us in an environment that supports and inspires us to always be better, rise to new challenges, and create outstanding solutions.

This is an exciting time to join us as we are currently expanding the company.

The Role

This is a unique, stimulating, varied and ever-changing role, one which offers a great opportunity for the right person to be a key player in a vibrant leading national company. We are looking for an inspirational and dynamic person who is confident, forward-thinking, outward looking, highly articulate, who has the drive, energy and charismatic dynamism to take through to market new courses, new conferences, occasionally new mini-projects which are of the highest standards while also being commercially profitable to the company.

The core of the role is to send to market an extensive range of new courses, large-scale conferences, and student revision sessions at regular intervals during the academic year, to teachers and leaders in the secondary education sector. The work is fast-paced, intellectually stimulating and satisfying, and is constantly changing with new trends and directions.

Detailed knowledge of specific subject or whole school expertise is not required, nor is direct experience of working in a school, as our external teams of course leaders, examiners, and other experts in their fields provide this.

Specifically, the Job Involves:

For Teacher Courses

Proactively leading our external specialist and experts (course leaders) in the design, planning and programmes for teacher courses.

Analysing the success of our current courses and conference provision, assessing trends, new directions and potential new growth areas for new courses and conferences. This work forms the basis for all new courses and conferences.

Advising and drawing upon the expertise of our specialists to provide the specific subject specialist and/or whole school knowledge we need, and then to put together new courses and conferences. The experts write out the programmes for the courses

For Large-Scale Conferences

Identifying and analysing the latest priorities, issues, trends in the wider secondary education sector, discussing with our external stakeholders, and following this through to set up large-scale conferences.

Sourcing and inviting national and international Keynote speakers, including current practitioners, to put on up to eight successful large-scale conferences per year, each focusing on a specific latest topic of priority, relevance, challenge or change affecting the secondary education sector, and to be of the quality, level and standard to attract a target audience of 150 – 200 delegates

Student Revision Conferences

Proactively lead in the design, planning and programmes of these conferences

To liaise directly with a range of educational people, particularly examiners to design, amend and update GCSE and A Level student revision conferences: work with the conference speakers, evaluate and give feedback

Qualities and Experience

The Successful Candidate will:

Have a genuine interest in, and demonstrate understanding of quality education in the secondary education sector

Be aspirational, ambitious, and committed to excellence in professional development provision

Demonstrate intellectual depth, pace and creative flair

Demonstrate experience of producing products - ideally course programmes or similar – which will attract the relevant client market

Enjoy the challenge of actively researching new developments affecting secondary education; be excited by the forward-thinking challenges involved in offering excellent conferences which set the pace of highest quality, highest relevance and the place to go to for the top events in the secondary education field

Be an excellent communicator and negotiator, able to lead and guide successfully with a range of external stakeholders

Be able to inspire and motivate others

Be a graduate

We Offer:

Good salary for the right person

35 hours, Mon - Fri

25 days holiday + 3 additional days over Christmas, + bank holidays

A positive, supportive team of friendly and passionate staff

Generous pension scheme with incentives

On-site parking

Offices in central Wilmslow

To Apply: please send a copy of your CV and covering letter to pam@keynote.org.uk

If you would like to briefly discuss the role, please call us on 01625 532974

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £35,000.00-£50,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension

Free parking

Schedule:

Monday to Friday