Learning and Development Manager

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.

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

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.

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.