NCLE’s SLNs/NPPs Coordinator /Lecturer (Teaching)

About us

IOE is UCL Faculty of Education and Society.

Founded in 1902, IOE has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just, and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.

About the Department of Culture, Communication and Media

The Department of Culture, Communication and Media (CCM) is a department of IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. It is committed to excellence in teaching, research and consultancy in the areas of: Media and Cultural Studies, Art, Design and Museology; Academic writing; English education: Applied Linguistics; Music Education; Multimodality studies; Learning with Digital Technologies.

About the role

The postholder will work with the NCLE team to oversee the conceptualisation, design and operationalisation of a series of National Priority Projects (NPP) in languages education, and support the development and oversee the coordination of Strategic Learning Networks (SLN) to ensure coherence, synergies and quality. It is envisaged that NPP projects will form a coherent and impactful national curriculum development initiative and support infrastructure which promote NCLE priorities linked to government missions as set out in the NCLE operating plan and informed by the research base collated and promoted by the NCLE.

The postholder will ensure that each project is supported by an effective SLN that brings together a range of partner schools locally, regionally, nationally and possibly internationally into an effective consortium whose work draws on, reinforces and promotes the reach of the NCLE online professional development platform and its reach. The postholder will also ensure that SLNs are well networked with each other, effectively share insights and resources with each other and promote and disseminate project outcomes and lessons learnt.

The post-holder will be located in the International Centre for Intercultural Studies. The Centre promotes intellectually rigorous, practically relevant and interdisciplinary Intercultural Studies that advance understanding of the role of culture in society, education and communication and inform intercultural practices and policy. Further details about the International Centre for Intercultural Studies can be found at

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departments-and-centres/culture-communication-and-media

This post is available until 2^nd March 2026 in the first instance.

If you have any questions about this post, please contact Professor Norbert Pachler –

About you

You will have extensive experience of working in or with state secondary schools along with experience and an understanding of challenges faced in the UK school system, in particular removing system barriers and improving teaching practice.

You will also have knowledge and understanding of approaches to teaching Languages in schools and national priorities in language education.

Qualified teacher status is desirable.

Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.

It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.

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