Delivery Manager (Centre for Teaching Excellence)
Role Purpose
The Delivery Manager is responsible for overseeing, coordinating, and assuring the delivery of the Centre for Teaching Excellence’s programme of work, ensuring that research hubs, professional learning activity, and practitioner engagement remain on track, coherent, and aligned with the Centre’s strategic priorities.
Working closely with the CfTE Research Hub Leads and Centre Manager(s), the Delivery Manager supports the Hubs to ensure delivery of Hub activity in line with CfTE vision and aims, maintains oversight of progress across Hubs and initiatives, and helps ensure consistency, quality, and impact across the Centre’s national offer.
This role strengthens the Centre’s ability to deliver at scale while preserving practitioner voice, research integrity, and responsiveness to national priorities.
Please note that the Delivery Manager role is 1.0 FTE. Before submitting an EoI, please ensure that you have approval from your local authority and school to extend your secondment to full-time.
Position within CfTE
The role sits at the interface between strategy and delivery, with strong horizontal connections across the CfTE system:
- Working alongside the CfTE Partnerships and Collaborations Coordinator to broker relationships with teachers and other key stakeholders, including local authorities, organisations, associations and bodies nationally
- Works alongside (not instead of) Centre Managers
- Supports and coordinates CfTE Research Hubs and Teacher Associates
- Liaises with Research and Evaluation colleagues and Operational teams
- Acts as a delivery-focused connector across partners and locations
Key Responsibilities
1. Delivery Oversight and Coordination
- Maintain an overview of CfTE programmes, hubs, and strands of work, ensuring activity is progressing as planned and aligned with agreed priorities.
- Support the coordination of activity across CfTE Research Hubs to ensure coherence, complementarity, and national consistency.
- Help identify delivery risks, pressures, or dependencies and support timely problem‑solving with relevant colleagues.
- Track milestones, outputs, and timelines across hubs and initiatives.
2. Working with Leadership and Centre Manager(s)
- Work closely with the Centre Leadership Team to translate strategic priorities into deliverable plans.
- Provide regular updates on delivery progress, emerging issues, and areas requiring leadership attention.
- Support Centre Managers by offering a cross‑centre view of delivery, helping ease operational pressures and bottlenecks
3. Supporting CfTE Research Hubs
- Act as a key point of contact between hubs and the Centre’s leadership and management structures.
- Support hubs to:
- Stay aligned with the Centre’s overall mission and research-informed approach
- Share learning, resources, and emerging practice across locations
- Encourage coherence in outputs such as research and practice briefs, Communities of Practice, and Research Practice Partnerships.
4. Working with Teacher Associates
- Support Teacher Associates as they engage in delivery activity across regions and local authorities.
- Help ensure TA activity:
- Remains manageable, purposeful, and aligned with Centre priorities
- Connects effectively into hub activity and national professional learning
- Contribute to building a shared understanding of expectations, roles, and ways of working across the TA network.
5. Quality Assurance and Improvement
- Contribute to embedding consistent standards and expectations for delivery across the Centre.
- Work with the Research and Evaluation Team to:
- Ensure evaluation and feedback data is gathered in a timely way
- Use evidence to reflect on what is working well and where refinement is needed
- Support a culture of reflective, research-informed improvement across CfTE activity.
6. Communication and Collaboration
- Facilitate effective communication between hubs, leadership, research staff, and operational teams.
- Support joined‑up planning around events, outputs, and national engagements.
- Help ensure clarity of roles, responsibilities, and timelines across complex collaborative work.
Person Specification (Outline)
Essential
- Experience of leading or coordinating complex educational or professional learning activity, ideally across multiple sites or partners.
- Strong understanding of the Scottish education system, including local authorities and national priorities.
- Credibility with teachers and practitioners and senior leaders; ability to work respectfully with a wide range of professional organisations, associations and bodies.
- Strong organisational and communication skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively, support others, and exercise influence without formal line management responsibility.
Desirable
- Experience of working in research‑informed or evidence‑based improvement contexts particularly in leading and supporting others in enquiry activity.
- Familiarity with programme or project delivery approaches in education.
Key Relationships
- Centre Leadership Team
- Centre Managers
- CfTE Research and Evaluation Team
- CfTE Research Hub leads and partners
- Teacher Associates
- Administrative and Operational Support colleagues
Measures of Success (Indicative)
- CfTE programmes and hub activity are delivered on time and with clear alignment to strategic aims.
- Improved coherence and communication across hubs, TAs, and Centre teams.
- Timely identification and resolution of delivery challenges.
- Positive feedback from Centre Managers, hub leads, and Teacher Associates regarding clarity, coordination, and support.
Please submit your EoI to centreforteachingexcellence@glasgow.ac.uk