Academy Development Manager in London

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

Nord Anglia Education - the world's leading private school's organisation is recruiting a Group Head of Leadership Development. London is our global headquarters where 200 colleagues across Finance, Risk, Corporate Development, Legal, HR, MAC and Education drive the success of our 90+ schools in 35+ countries.

In the role of Group Head of Leadership Development, you will be responsible for shaping and delivering a global leadership development strategy that supports Nord Anglia Education's return-to-growth agenda and enhances capability across the organisation, meeting the diverse needs of both educators and functional teams.

This role will lead a comprehensive review of the current Leadership programmes portfolio and create a cohesive, multi-channel learning framework with clear outcomes aligned to training needs and business priorities. Leading a small, high-impact internal team and carefully selected external partners, the role will balance strategic leadership with hands-on delivery, focusing on strengthening leadership capability, commercial and financial acumen, AI and data literacy. A key focus of the role will be ensuring schools have access to the development they need to ensure they remain the very best educators in the market.

Success will be measured through tangible business impact, including enrolment growth, employee engagement score increases, NPS data from parents, as well as having a stronger talent pipeline available for internal promotions.

As Group Head of Leadership Development your focus will be to:

• Develop a global Leadership Development strategy aligned with business priorities to drive commercial growth, high performance and continuous learning.
• Identify skill gaps and design blended learning solutions across leadership, onboarding and technical training.
• Review and enhance all existing content, programmes and delivery channels to maximise business impact.
• Create a cohesive Leadership framework covering development, onboarding, coaching, mentoring, assessments and digital learning, accessible to all career stages.
• Align all learning activity to the EmpowerUs competency framework to reinforce a consistent performance language across Nord Anglia.
• Explore career development options beyond promotion, including mentoring, secondments, lateral moves and international opportunities.
• Partner with the Education team to evolve offerings and ensure Nord Anglia University content is accessible, relevant and refreshed.
• Ensure compliance with mandatory training and leverage technology (AI, LMS) to strengthen delivery.
• Partner with functional teams, Principals, Regional Managing Directors and HR to ensure regional relevance, business alignment and links to talent and succession planning.
• Gather feedback and use data to demonstrate ROI, capability uplift and programme effectiveness.
• Review external partnerships for quality, cultural fit and value.
• Lead, coach and develop the Leadership Development team for future growth.

Proven experience of transforming or building a Leadership or L&D function in a global organisation. Demonstrated experience designing and building successful Leadership Development curricula for multiple levels of organisations. Strong strategic planning and analytical skills to measure the effectiveness of training initiatives.

Nord Anglia Education is the world's leading international schools organisation. Our 90+ 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.

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.

In our schools and offices around the world, we treat all colleagues fairly based on their skills and qualifications, without discrimination. Nord Anglia Education is committed to ensuring the highest possible safeguarding standards in our schools and we expect every employee to share this commitment.