Leadership Programme Designers
| Posting date: | 28 April 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £43,760 to £51,690 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47,670 - £51,690 - London £43,760 - £47,413 - National |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 May 2026 |
| Location: | M2 3AA |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 459112/3 |
Summary
Within the Cabinet Office, the Public Sector Leadership team runs programmes and events for the most senior officials across the UK public sector, aimed at increasing their capability and networks for systems leadership. The team brings the community of public service leaders together through formal and informal learning, community and network building and large scale events. As part of a new skills model, this work is growing over the next two years to increase impact and quality of what is delivered.
We deliver two programmes for public sector CEOs and aspiring CEOs. The Public Leaders Programme is a 12 month programme for CEO-level leaders, while the Leading Collaborative Organisations course will be 3-4 months long for aspirant CEO leaders.
This advert is for two design roles, one for each of these programmes.
These roles will each be working with a team lead for one of these programmes, collaboratively designing the content, in conjunction with other team members responsible for logistics and operations. You’ll have areas of personal responsibility as well as collectively driving excellence in your projects. And as a whole team we set an intentional culture of mutual support and collaboration, which is very important to us and how we work together.
There is a reasonable amount of travel required for these roles to attend event delivery, get to know the leaders we support, and to meet in person with geographically spread team members.
We deliberately cultivate a flexible working and inclusive environment; we are keen to have a team that represents the breadth of citizens and varied perspectives.
In advertising quite broad roles, we are asking that applicants are comfortable with a level of ambiguity and applying to work across the portfolio of our work. We will be able to specify the role and provide a job description at the point of offer, but it's not unusual for people in the team to move between products/ work areas as the need arises
Key responsibilities:
We are looking for people who are experts in leadership programme design, who have ideally delivered programmes for very senior leaders.
We embrace flexibility and adaptability in our roles, responding to Government priorities, the needs of our leaders, and the programmes that we deliver. We also want to create opportunities for you to engage in work that interests you and that supports your development.
Within this context you can expect a mix of the following responsibilities:
- Working on the design of high-impact programmes and events tailored for CEO leaders and / or aspirant CEOs, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
- Draw on insights, relationships and research to incorporate best practices and insights into our programmes.
- Prepare programme materials, including evaluation processes to measure impact.
- Liaise with external experts, programmes alumni and senior stakeholders, working with them to design and deliver sessions for delegates as part of the programmes, ensuring learning objectives are met.
- Be part of a high-performance culture, supporting others to collectively achieve great work.
- Help build a community of leaders from the NHS, police, fire service, military, education sectors, the civil service, and local government through a broad range of projects across the team.
- Identify strategic opportunities to link programmes with policy development, public service reform, and leadership development initiatives.
- Owning individual areas such as particular modules, relationships, project finance management.
- Promote and model best practice behaviours, including audience insight, inclusive design, evaluation, and diversity.
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