Learning and Development Manager

Avanti Schools Trust, Stanmore, HA7 2EQ

16 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2026

• Closing date

  10 May 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  24 April 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay scale: Grade MG1.1 – MG1.5, £54,471 - £61,547 per annum

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking a highly organised and forward-thinking Learning and Development Manager to lead the coordination of professional development across Avanti Schools Trust.

This role sits at the heart of our Education team, ensuring that CPD is not only well-planned and compliant, but also ambitious and aligned to our long-term vision. You will manage the Trust-wide CPD calendar, oversee training systems and budgets, and commission high-quality development opportunities for staff at every level.

Working with senior stakeholders, you will bring structure, clarity, and consistency to a complex and evolving landscape.

This is an ideal role for someone who thrives on turning strategy into seamless delivery.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing Multi Academy Trust with schools based in London, the midlands and the South West of England. All Avanti schools provide pupils with an outstanding education rooted in the inclusive and distinctive Avanti Schools ethos of educational excellence, character development, and spiritual insight.

What will you do?

• Lead the strategic planning and coordination of a Trust-wide CPD programme, ensuring all professional development is coherent, well-structured, and aligned to the Avanti Way.
• Oversee the full CPD lifecycle, including calendar management, budget tracking, event delivery, and stakeholder coordination across Education, HR, IT, and Operations.
• Drive the implementation of the Soul of Education framework into a multi-year professional development offer, commissioning facilitators and shaping high-quality Spiritual Insight CPD.
• Ensure full compliance with all mandatory training requirements across the Trust, managing systems, reporting, and audit processes to meet statutory and organisational standards.
• Manage leadership development, induction, coaching, and apprenticeship programmes, while overseeing training platforms, supplier relationships, and data to ensure impact and value for money.

What are we looking for?

• Strong project and event management skills with excellent attention to detail, operating confidently across administrative and strategic tasks
• Genuine alignment with the values and ethos of Avanti Schools Trust
• Demonstrated experience coordinating or managing L&D or CPD programmes in a complex, multi-site organisation
• Experience sourcing, commissioning, and managing external facilitators, trainers, and coaches
• Commitment to the safeguarding and welfare of all students

Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.

What the school offers its staff

Why should you apply

Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.

You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:

• Great opportunities for professional development
• O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
• Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
• Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
• Cycle-to-work Scheme

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Further information

Pre-employment checks

Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.

Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

Diversity and Inclusion

We want to make sure we are attracting the widest possible range of people and ensure that they are accepted, understood and treated equally when they work here. This means we will work hard to understand that each employee is unique and ensuring that individuals or groups are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of specific characteristics.

Such characteristics include (but are not limited to) age, disability, gender including transgender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, and how the school supports pregnant women and new parents.

Commitment to safeguarding

Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.

Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Child-Protection-and-Safeguarding-Policy.Autumn-25-2.pdf - 664 KB (opens in new tab)

The-Avanti-Way-2024.pdf - 354 KB (opens in new tab)

Learning and Development Manager JD.pdf - 238 KB (opens in new tab)

About Avanti Schools Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Avanti Schools Trust website
• Email address: talent@avanti.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/avanti-schools-trust

Avanti Schools support each person’s life journey along three parallel paths: Educational excellence; Character formation; and Spiritual insight.

Avanti’s unique ethos places a key emphasis on each individual’s wellbeing and good mental health. Children with higher levels of emotional, behavioural, social, and school wellbeing, on average, have higher levels of academic achievement and are more engaged in the school community. All our schools share a dedicated approach to wellbeing, from providing yoga and mindfulness sessions, sports and exercise, charity work, and working with parents and carers as co-educators.

Arranging a visit to Avanti Schools Trust

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email talent@avanti.org.uk.

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