Programme Lead (Education Delivery) in London

Salary £76,313 (GBP) + benefits (including 4.5 day week and 11% employer pension)

Team: Education

Seniority: Mid-level

Closing: 12:00pm, 24th Feb 2026 GMT

Perks and benefits:

• Work from home option
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Additional parental leave
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Paid emergency leave
• Mentoring/coaching
• Payroll giving
• Team social events

Job Description:

Remote (UK-based) | Full-time - £76,313 + benefits (including 4.5 day week and 11% employer pension)

Do your best work, for the right reasons. We’re looking for an experienced Programme Lead (Education Delivery) to join Oak’s Education Team, leading a team of curriculum experts (Oak’s Subject Leads) to deliver high-quality curriculum resources at pace.

Oak is a fully remote, mission-driven organisation offering high levels of flexibility, autonomy, and purpose. We’re a national not-for-profit organisation working in partnership with teachers to create high-quality, sequenced curriculum and lesson resources for pupils across all subjects and age groups.

Our culture has been independently recognised through:

• Flexa verified (93% overall score, including 95% for working hours and 97% for role modelling)
• Escape the City's Top 1% Employers – based on anonymous colleague reviews of culture, development, and impact
• Investors in People Gold - through external accreditation and colleague feedback

About the Role:

In this role, you’ll lead and support a high-performing team to manage a portfolio of subjects, ensuring effective delivery, strong contract performance, and continuous improvement. You’ll be the first point of escalation when delivery issues arise and will help set a culture of clarity, ownership and collaboration.

We’re looking for someone who has a working knowledge of the National Curriculum in England, is comfortable delivering at pace, enjoys improving systems and processes, and can lead senior colleagues confidently and compassionately.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Develop and manage a high-performing team of senior curriculum experts - Oak’s Subject Leads.
• Support these senior curriculum experts to embed effective contract performance management, using agile project and contract management approaches and be the first point of contact for issue escalation in the subjects in your portfolio.
• Oversee the day-to-day operations of your portfolio of subjects, including key performance indicators, meeting cycles and reporting.
• Support the monitoring of a 7-figure budget for your portfolio of subjects, which will be delegated to our partners.
• Oversee and contribute to the delivery of other specific projects, including public procurements.
• As a member of the Oak Team, contribute to the planning and culture of the organisation.
• Work in cross-functional and product-oriented squads with colleagues from across the organisation, as required.
• Deputise for the Head of Curriculum Delivery Lead and take on general responsibilities as required.

Requirements:

• 3+ years experience in leading the continuous improvement of operational processes.
• 3+ years experience of recruiting, developing and managing high performing teams.
• 2+ years of project management experience, ideally using agile methodologies.
• Experience of managing a 6 figure budget.
• Proven success managing relationships via contracts.
• Working knowledge of the National Curriculum in England and how it is implemented in schools.

The successful candidate will have a desire to contribute in all areas to ensure Oak is successful. You will be comfortable working at pace, with a range of digital systems (including proprietary ones as required) and you will continuously look at ways that the team can keep getting better. You will be excellent at working as part of a remote team, building relationships and managing your time effectively.

Additional Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave, plus one extra day for each year of service (up to 28).
• Additional Oak closure days over Christmas/New Year.
• 11% employer pension contribution (with no minimum employee contribution, which can be varied as you choose). Please note this is a workplace pension rather than the Teachers’ Pension Scheme.
• A 36-hour working week (not tied to term-time patterns or school-day hours), with half-days on Fridays or every other Friday off.
• Fully remote working — we’ll support your home set-up and offer coworking options if preferred.
• Twice-yearly in-person whole Oak offsites to collaborate, connect, and have fun (with other occasional team events in person).
• A culture that genuinely supports flexibility, autonomy, and trust.

Inclusion and Belonging:

We believe diverse teams build better products. We warmly welcome applicants from all backgrounds, particularly those who are underrepresented in the tech and education sectors.

Location: Remote, but you must be based in the UK with the legal right to work here.

Sponsorship: Unfortunately, we’re unable to offer visa sponsorship at this time.

Closing date: We’ll be reviewing applications as they come in and may close the role early.

If this sounds like the kind of role and team where you could do your life’s best work, we’d love to hear from you.

Next steps:

You’ll answer some questions related to your day-to-day job. Your answers will go through our sift process: all answers will be anonymised, randomised, and then reviewed by a panel of reviewers (real humans). If you are shortlisted, we’ll invite you to the next stage, which will consist of a remote interview conducted over Zoom. This will last approximately 45 minutes. We love giving feedback, so at the end of the application process, we’ll share how well you performed. We aim to begin interviews in late February/early March 2026. We are receiving excellent responses to our job advertisements. This may lead us to close the role early, so if you are considering applying, then please get your application in early to avoid missing out.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.