Head of Professional Development and Quality Assurance

Salary: £69552 per annum

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Final date to receive applications: 11th January 2026

Telephone interviews:
Week commencing 12th January 2026

Interviews:
Week commencing 19th Jan 2026

Start date: 13th April 2026

We are looking for an inspirational leader and pedagogue to lead our strategy for raising the quality of the mentoring of Axiom Maths circles. Our mentors love running our programme, and we have maintained satisfaction levels while growing our reach rapidly. However for many of our mentors, maths circles feel very different from their teaching experience, and require different practices and pedagogy.

Over the next two years, we want to empower our mentors to achieve more for their pupils and elevate their status in the eyes of leaders and peers. The Head of Professional Development and Quality Assurance will lead the way in this crucial work.

This is an exciting challenge for someone who enjoys solving complex problems. Our 2000 strong mentor pool is diverse, including teachers of all experience levels, university students and sixth form helpers across England and Wales. Our delivery models are also diverse; our core delivery model is in-school partnerships but we also run a significant number of online circles, led by our own mentors, and we collaborate with external partners to deliver additional circles.

You will work across many teams to develop a programme of professional development, and deliver robust quality assurance, that caters for these differences.

We are a small team with big ambitions, who are in a phase of substantial growth. You should be excited about working in a start‑up environment where things can change quickly but where you have the opportunity to have a tremendous impact.

We exist to serve pupils from backgrounds that are under‑represented in university mathematics, and believe that we do this better when our team includes people who are from these backgrounds themselves. If you consider yourself to be from a background where progressing to university mathematics is not the norm then we strongly encourage you to apply.

Axiom Maths is a maths education charity on a mission to help every child with the heart and head for maths realise the potential of their power. Every year 30,000 children who were top performers at the end of primary school don't go on to get top GCSE grades in maths. We aim to change that by partnering with schools across England and Wales to run fully‑funded in‑school or online maths circles.

Pupils tackle challenging and rewarding maths problems in a supportive social group where the subject is valued.

We're looking for team members who will bring the best of themselves to Axiom Maths, and the best of Axiom Maths to the wider system. We champion innovation and our employees are empowered to implement new ideas without barriers. We are a small team, and we place a big focus on open communication, collaboration and supporting one another.

You will develop Axiom Maths' view of what good mentoring looks like and be the expert on the current 'quality distribution' of mentoring on our programme. You will develop a strategic vision for improving quality that is grounded in rich insights from the frontline, and create a shared understanding of this across the wider Axiom Maths team. You will oversee programmes that improve quality, including quality assurance processes, training and community building.

• Develop a professional development offer that elevates the status of our mentors and empowers them to deliver our programme effectively.
• Ensure that such training is accessible to the wide range of mentors, including teachers running circles in schools, tutors running circles online and junior mentors supporting their teachers.
• Train and support other members of the Axiom Maths team and wider community to deliver such training.

• Assure the quality of programme delivery. In particular:
• Own the evaluation framework.
• Ensure consistency in the implementation of the framework across multiple modes of delivery and teams, ensuring that well‑calibrated, accurate judgements…