Curriculum Development Lead · Learning and Development Manager · Change Adoption and Engagement Specialist · Education Content Editor or Developer
YOUR RE-ENTRY REPORT
Lindsay
Your leadership, coaching and curriculum-change experience can travel beyond school leadership
You have evidence of leading two departments, coaching others, rewriting curriculum and introducing new ways of working. Those capabilities support a close curriculum direction, two moves into different role families, and a more exploratory route into education content. Your priorities of work-life balance, stability and a Monday to Friday week should shape which roles you pursue. Whether roles meet your £35,000 salary expectation, offer those working patterns and are available in Leeds needs to be checked.
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Work life balance and stability · Leeds · 35 000
Team leadership and coordination · Coaching and leading by example · Curriculum design and revision · Implementing new ways of working · Leading work across a school
You have experience leading teams and coordinating work across two departments.
01 · YOUR OPTIONS
Career directions worth exploring.
Adjacent
Curriculum Development Lead
This is a close but meaningful move from school leadership toward a role centred more directly on curriculum design and implementation. It uses your curriculum rewriting and whole-school vocabulary curriculum experience, while potentially changing the balance of your work away from leading a school.
Transferable
Learning and Development Manager
This would move your people-development experience into an organizational learning context beyond school leadership. It offers a way to explore change while drawing on your coaching strengths, department leadership and curriculum work.
Transferable
Change Adoption and Engagement Specialist
This direction focuses on helping people understand and adopt changes, rather than owning projects or formal project governance. You have introduced new ways of working and a whole-school curriculum, while leading two departments and identifying coaching as a strength. Those experiences give you relevant starting points for supporting change adoption in a different organizational context.
Exploratory
Education Content Editor or Developer
This is a more exploratory move from school leadership into creating or developing learning content for an external audience. Your curriculum rewriting and whole-school vocabulary curriculum give you a relevant starting point, while the role would use your expertise in a different work setting.
MORE TO EXPLORE
Other directions your experience could open up.
These are broader possibilities worth exploring. We have not put them through the same market checks as your main Re-entry directions, so treat them as ideas to test, not recommendations.
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02 · YOUR VALUE & MARKET
Your experience is broader than your job title suggests.
You have experience leading teams and coordinating work across two departments. You have evidence of supporting colleagues and setting a practical example through your leadership. You have worked on curriculum design and implementation beyond a single classroom or team.
The right job isn't necessarily the biggest job.
03 · YOUR EARNING POTENTIAL
You told us you're looking for 35 000. Most of the live roles we found sit between around £40,400 and £45,400. Use your salary requirement to decide which opportunities are worth pursuing.
You told us you're looking for 35 000. Most of the live roles we found sit between around £40,400 and £45,400. Use your salary requirement to decide which opportunities are worth pursuing.
Your experience already proves more than your current job title may suggest.
04 · YOUR SEARCH PACK
Know exactly what to look for.
Team leadership and coordination · Coaching and leading by example · Curriculum design and revision · Implementing new ways of working · Leading work across a school · Prepare examples of how you assessed curriculum needs and decided what to change. · Identify evidence of the outcomes of the vocabulary curriculum or curriculum rewrite, using only results you can substantiate. · Check which curriculum areas, education phases or standards each role requires, as your profile does not specify these.
Professional services · Local government · Charities · Education · Regulated services · Service operations
03 · WHAT'S CHANGED
Know what matters — and what you can ignore.
WORTH KNOWING
We found 3 live opportunities across 3 of your supported directions. The opportunities are spread across your routes rather than concentrated in one area.
WORTH REFRESHING
Prepare examples of assessing curriculum needs, choosing changes and evaluating the result. Make the education phases, subject areas and standards you know explicit, using only outcomes you can substantiate.
SAFE TO IGNORE
Your previous job title does not define the full range of work you can target.
06 · YOUR MARKET EVIDENCE
Where your experience meets today's market.
Your experience is already translating into live roles across Curriculum Development Lead, Learning and Development Manager, Change Adoption and Engagement Specialist. Your Team leadership and coordination, Coaching and leading by example, Curriculum design and revision experience gives you evidence to build from.
The main entry question is whether the scope of your curriculum and leadership work matches the particular post. Check that alongside the Leeds location, pay and working pattern you want rather than treating all education or content roles as interchangeable.
SALARY
You told us you're looking for 35 000. Most of the live roles we found sit between around £40,400 and £45,400. Use your salary requirement to decide which opportunities are worth pursuing.
DEMAND
We found 3 live opportunities across 3 of your supported directions. The opportunities are spread across your routes rather than concentrated in one area.
COMPETITION
Leading two departments, coaching others and rewriting curriculum give you evidence beyond classroom delivery. Show the decisions, implementation and outcomes, especially where applicants have already worked in the target setting.
04 · YOUR SMARTEST NEXT MOVE
Use the live opportunities to test the strongest routes now.
Start with the live opportunities: Programme Manager - English and Maths · Learning & Development Manager · Digital Engagement Officer.
05 · YOUR QUESTION
The question you wanted answered.
Present yourself as an experienced leader who is deliberately applying proven strengths in a new setting. For example, your CV profile could say: “Experienced education leader with 25 years’ experience coaching colleagues, leading two departments, rewriting curriculum and introducing new ways of working. Now looking to apply those strengths in curriculum, learning or change-focused roles, with a stable Monday to Friday working pattern.” Then support that message with specific examples, including your whole-school vocabulary curriculum. Use any outcome measures you can substantiate, but do not add figures you cannot evidence. This makes your openness to change clear while showing employers what you can contribute.
LIVE OPPORTUNITIES
Roles worth investigating for your
Re-entry.
We checked current roles against your experience, priorities and the career directions in this report.
LIVE ROLES · VERIFIED BEFORE YOUR REPORT IS SENT
Found by Re-entry
Digital Engagement Officer
Department of Health and Social Care
£44,054 in Leeds
Full-time advertised; flexible working, part-time and job-share options are listed. Monday-to-Friday schedule is not stated.
The exact vacancy page is live and gives an application deadline of 9 November 2026. The role supports engagement with external partners, stakeholder relationships, and coordination of collaborative activity. Lindsay’s team leadership, coaching, curriculum change and introduction of new ways of working provide relevant transferable evidence. However, digital, data and technology context, external stakeholder engagement and related communications experience are not established in the profile, so the fit is plausible but not fully evidenced.
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Learning & Development Manager
Northern
£45,428
Hybrid, 37 hours per week. Specific days and daily hours are not stated, so Monday to Friday is we couldn't confirm this.
The live vacancy lists Leeds as a location, alongside Manchester, and specifies hybrid working. Salary is stated at £45,428. Lindsay's coaching, team leadership and curriculum redesign offer relevant foundations, but her profile does not evidence workplace L&D programme delivery, facilitation for diverse employee audiences, or evaluation using data, all of which the role seeks. The vacancy does not confirm a Monday to Friday schedule.
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Programme Manager - English and Maths
Leeds City College
£40,410 to £44,144 per annum
Permanent, full time, 37 hours per week. Monday to Friday is not stated. Flexible or hybrid options vary by role.
The exact employer vacancy page lists a closing date of 8 November 2026, confirming it is open on 29 October 2026. Leeds location and stated salary meet your location and £35,000 salary requirement. Managing a staff team and supporting implementation of strategic decisions relate to Lindsay's department leadership and experience introducing new ways of working. Caution: the vacancy asks for significant further-education experience and a background in a relevant discipline, which are not demonstrated in the profile. The described work centres on managing an English and Maths team, rather than curriculum design alone. Full-time hours are stated, but a Monday-to-Friday pattern and improved work-life balance are we couldn't confirm this.
View role →09 · DO THIS THIS WEEK
Turn the report into movement.
1. Review the 3 live opportunities. 2. Tailor your CV around the evidence each role asks for. 3. Apply selectively where the remaining gaps are learnable rather than hard blockers.
YOUR RE-ENTRY PLAN
Keep this bit.
Change Adoption and Engagement Specialist
Team leadership and coordination · Coaching and leading by example · Curriculum design and revision · Implementing new ways of working
Coaching others and leading by example
Prepare examples of assessing curriculum needs, choosing changes and evaluating the result. Make the education phases, subject areas and standards you know explicit, using only outcomes you can substantiate.