Director of Curriculum – Innovation

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £90k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Director

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Makers

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2013

📚 Education

🤝 B2B

💰 $8.6M Venture Round - Makers on 2022-12

Education • B2B

Makers is a UK-based tech and AI education provider and apprenticeship operator founded in 2012. It runs intensive bootcamps, apprenticeships, and corporate upskilling programmes (Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Quality Engineering, Cloud Engineering, AI Academy, Digital Leadership) aimed at reskilling individuals and building tech capability inside organisations. Makers works with employers to place apprentices, deliver levy-funded and commercially-funded training, and run employer-targeted AI and data literacy programmes. The organisation emphasizes measurable outcomes (high achievement and promotion rates), diversity and selective admissions based on aptitude, and long-standing partnerships with major companies.

📋 Description

• Keep Makers up to date with technologies, engineering practices and changing skills needs • Run focused experiments with generative AI agents, modern engineering stacks and cloud-native workflows • Turn research and experimentation into practical curriculum ideas • Join executive and technical client conversations to understand business context, technology stacks, skills gaps and desired outcomes • Identify underlying problems and distinguish learning needs from wider organisational issues • Create curriculum briefs covering audience, outcomes, technical scope, delivery approach, constraints and success measures • Design curriculum plans and tailored client proposals • Define learning outcomes, content, sequencing, practical activities, assessment approach and delivery model • Work with Commercial colleagues to produce technically credible, learning-focused proposals • Lead or directly support first-cohort delivery and provide context, materials and technical guidance • Stay close to learners, coaches and client sponsors throughout pilots • Use feedback and pilot results to improve delivery and protect outcomes and client trust • Review pilots and consolidate learner outcomes, feedback and delivery lessons • Recommend what has been validated, what needs further testing and what should not be scaled • Hand over successful curricula and supporting evidence to Curriculum Product for ongoing ownership and improvement

🎯 Requirements

• Experience operating at a senior leadership level, setting direction for a product, innovation area or technical capability and influencing wider business priorities • Experience leading complex conversations with senior enterprise clients, challenging the original brief and influencing the final solution • Deep and current technical credibility in AI and emerging technology • Ability to translate complex technical ideas into effective learning products • Significant industry experience as a senior software engineer, technical consultant, solutions architect or similarly credible hands-on technology role • Track record of turning unclear business or skills needs into a clear technical solution, curriculum design or learning proposal • Hands-on experience leading, teaching, coaching or directly supporting a first delivery, pilot cohort or comparable live learning experience • Experience using learner, client and delivery feedback to improve a pilot and recommend next steps • Technical educator or coaching experience highly desirable • Strong learning design and facilitation skills • Successful candidates must complete appropriate pre-employment checks, including DBS screening relevant to the role

🏖️ Benefits

• Minimum 25 days’ holiday per year excluding UK Bank Holidays, including company-wide Winter and Spring breaks • Unlimited fully paid wellness leave from day 1 • Private Medical Insurance after passing probation • £500 Learning & Development allowance per annum • Paid time off dedicated to training and learning • Daily meditation sessions • Company pension contributions • Enhanced parental pay and leave: up to 20 weeks fully paid maternity leave, up to 8 weeks fully paid paternity and secondary caregiver leave, and up to 20 weeks fully paid adoption leave • Perks at Work account with shopping and leisure discounts • Safeguarding and Prevent policies • Pre-employment checks including DBS screening relevant to the role