NAU Professional Learning Culture and Engagement Lead

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING CULTURE AND ENGAGEMENT LEAD

Location: London Victoria (hybrid model, minimum 3 days in office).

Nord Anglia Education – the world’s leading private school’s organisation is recruiting a Professional Learning Culture and Engagement Lead. You will be joining the Education team in our London HQ.

London is our global headquarters where 200 colleagues across Finance, Risk, Corporate Development, Legal, HR, MAC and Education drive the success of our 80+ schools in 30+ countries. By joining our fast paced and innovative organisation, you will be regularly liaising with our global team-mates from the Philippines to Peru, from Beijing to Boston and beyond.

If you have a global mindset, enjoy thinking outside the box and are prepared to go above and beyond to find solutions, then a career at Nord Anglia is for you.

In the role of Professional Learning Culture and Engagement Lead, you will be responsible for play a pivotal role in shaping and executing the Nord Anglia University (NAU) Professional Learning, Culture and Engagement strategy, driving a global professional learning ecosystem that directly supports our organisational priorities and commercial success.

You will shape how professional learning drives teacher quality and student outcomes, positioning NAU as a key differentiator. You’ll lead the design and delivery of communications and culture-change initiatives to embed a strong professional learning culture across NAE. This includes raising NAE’s internal and external profile for PL through campaigns and thought leadership and implementing engagement strategies that help colleagues use PL and NAU effectively. You will develop and grow system leaders, enabling peer-to-peer and social learning through Professional Learning Leads, Communities of Practice, and other networks—ensuring these initiatives deliver measurable impact on collaboration, capability building, and retention.

Your work will align culture-specific strategies with NAU’s overarching goals, embedding innovative learning approaches that strengthen engagement and performance. By championing communication, training, and stakeholder alignment, you’ll ensure new features and learning strategies are adopted at scale, maximising ROI on our digital learning platform and reinforcing NAU as a cornerstone of our professional learning strategy.

Ultimately, this role ensures NAU is not just a learning hub but a strategic enabler, supporting our vision to develop the highest-quality teachers and staff, driving educational excellence, and contributing to the commercial success of our global network.

The role:

As Professional Learning Culture and Engagement Lead your focus will be:

• Define and execute a multi-year strategy to embed a culture of PL for all colleagues, aligned to NAE priorities.
• Codify behaviours for PL (eg collaboration, evidence-informed practice, reflection, outcome focused) and embed them in learning design and comms.
• Develop an engagement strategy that equips colleagues and line managers to use PL & NAU effectively (onboarding, playbooks, toolkits, clinics).
• Lead the development and delivery of a culture, communications and engagement strategy that embeds the use of the newly developed and enhanced NAU platform and Professional Learning Strategy
• Lead the engagement strategy around making the best use of NAU to drive continuous improvement against educational, organisational and commercial priorities
• Lead training and communications around new features on NAU to Professional Learning Leader (PLL)’s and key NAU superusers
• Grow and harness the group’s expertise by developing a cadre of system leaders and Teaching Fellows to lead and develop bespoke, peer-to-peer and social learning.
• Establish and scale communities of practice across priority areas (education and functional), with facilitation models and recognition.
• Coach PLLs and SMEs to design high-impact learning aligned to NAU standards.
• Scope, create, and maintain COP’s spaces and initiatives to ensure high engagement and effective collaboration
• Manage the Teaching Fellow initiatives, through regular check in’s providing necessary spaces and creating engagement opportunities etc.
• Manage the PLL community through creating spaces for shared learning, creating frameworks for best practice and providing necessary resources etc.
• Lead the development of the next phase of the Professional Learning Leader programme
• Lead initiatives aimed at sharing best practice for professional learning

The Successful Candidate will possess:

• Extensive experience developing professional learning strategies and implementation plans.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to deliver on immediate priorities and plan for future needs.
• Experience working in an international education setting.
• Ability to oversee to a range of projects running simultaneously, maintaining high standards.
• Excellent presentational skills that will present NAE as a premium brand to internal and external stakeholders
• Highly developed interpersonal skills and a collaborative approach to work.
• Ability to work independently, displaying initiative and creativity
• Highly developed project management skills.

See full job description, here.

About Us

Nord Anglia Education is the world’s leading international schools organisation. Our 80+ international schools are located in the Americas, Europe, China, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Together, they educate more than 90,000 students from kindergarten through to the end of secondary education.  We are driven by one unifying philosophy: we are ambitious for our students, our people and our family of schools.

Our exclusive collaborations with prestigious institutions such as UNICEF, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), IMG Academy and the world-leading performing arts school Juilliard mean we’re at the forefront of educational thinking, while creating life-changing experiences for students.

By joining Nord Anglia Education you will become part of a committed and innovative team.  As a member of the world’s leading premium schools group you will be joining an active network of like-minded people across the world.

We encourage individuals to join us with our “Create your Future” mindset – we will provide you with a range of experiences and opportunities to enhance your skillset and you will be given the autonomy to grow your career. 

To Apply

On-line applications need to be directly through the Nord Anglia Education careers page and should include a CV.

At Nord Anglia Education, we are an equal opportunities employer dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. In our schools and offices around the world, we treat all colleagues fairly based on their skills and qualifications, without discrimination.

We value individuals from all backgrounds, including those with different abilities and neurodivergent conditions, as well as those who identify with protected characteristics.

Nord Anglia Education is committed to ensuring the highest possible safeguarding standards in our schools and we expect every employee to share this commitment.