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About the Role

Lead the Maths Coaching Pilot through a pivotal stage of its delivery phase, ensuring the mission is held steady, the pace is kept high, and the team, pupils, and families have confidence during this critical period.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the strategic direction, milestones, and success metrics for the pilot are met.
• Hold ultimate accountability for the delivery of the pilot.
• Establish performance expectations, cultural norms, and accountability rhythms.
• Guard clarity of mission and prevent drift during the pilot phase.
• Build governance, safeguarding, data, and compliance systems.
• Establish internal operating rhythms and decision-making structures.
• Build board relationships and governance structures.
• Own budget management and financial sustainability.
• Set the pace and momentum of the organisation, modelling urgency, clarity, and disciplined execution.
• Lead the founding team and hold ultimate accountability for team performance and organisational standards.
• Establish clear reporting structures, accountability rhythms, and performance expectations.
• Create a high-performance culture.
• Ensure delivery systems support excellence in mentoring, acceleration, advocacy, and community.
• Own the end-to-end delivery of the pilot and ensure excellence in Maths mentoring, acceleration pathways, family advocacy, and community-building.
• Ensure Year 5 and Year 8 cohorts are recruited, onboarded, and retained.
• Support the Director of Mathematical Programmes to develop and create the mathematical programmes and our approach to mentoring.
• Create clear reporting structures to track engagement and early outcomes across mentoring, acceleration, family engagement, and community.
• Build exceptional relationships with Multi-Academy Trusts and schools.
• Build trust with both families and pupils.
• Build strong relationships with partners in the wider mathematical ecosystem, including 1729 Maths School.
• Communicate the value proposition with clarity and authority.
• Represent the pilot as a credible, serious national intervention.
• Accountable for the fairness, integrity, and reputational soundness of the overall selection system.
• Ensure contextual judgment and socioeconomic equity are embedded in design and execution.
• Safeguard against ethical and reputational risks in early identification.
• Ensure families and pupils trust us completely and expect us to deliver excellence.
• Ensure that the pilot is known for clarity, pace, and high standards.
• Work with the Director of Mathematical Programmes to develop the academic plan for full launch following the pilot phase.
• Ensure the organisation is structurally prepared for scale beyond the pilot phase.

Requirements

• Must be in place by January 2027.
• Must come into the London office for an office day every other Monday.

Location

• Remote
• London

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Fixed term

Experience Level

• Director

Salary/Compensations

• £85,000-95,000 per annum (pro rata)

Benefits

• Travel to London for office days twice a month are included in the salary.
• All other relevant travel is covered by expenses.
• Flexible working.
• £500 allowance to purchase equipment for working from home.
• Laptop provided.
• 11% employer contribution pension.
• 27 days leave + bank holidays, increasing by 1 day after 2 years tenure (up to 30 days).
• Office closes for 3 additional days between Christmas and New Year.
• Confidential employee assistance programme.
• Expense any book purchase that will help improve job performance.

About the Company

• Maths powers breakthroughs. A world-class nation needs a world-class maths pipeline.
• The UK has no designed pathway for its most exceptional young mathematicians.
• Talent is abundant, but structured opportunity is not.
• The mission is to find extraordinary mathematical talent early, support it relentlessly, and ensure potential — not circumstance — determines who reaches the frontier.
• The national programme will identify exceptional pupils early and provide sustained coaching, stretch, and advocacy so their spark becomes momentum toward the frontier.
• Building on proven pillars of mathematical talent development to tackle the UK’s most tractable gaps, drawing on the traditions of the Russian Maths Circles model and the longitudinal evidence from the US Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY).
• Inspired by National Maths Stars: early results show that exceptionally gifted students from under-represented backgrounds thrive when rigorous academic stretch is paired with wraparound support and sustained 1:1 coaching.
• Secured funding for an 18-month pilot: six months to establish the foundations and one year of delivery to rigorously test the model.
• The pilot will evaluate feasibility, impact, and scalability, with clear milestones and transparent reporting.
• Currently incubated within Axiom Maths, giving operational support and community to move quickly while validating and refining the approach.

Equal Opportunity

• Committed to equity and inclusion in everything we do.
• Strongly encourage applications from candidates from under-represented backgrounds.
• Especially want to hear from candidates who might have qualified for a programme like this as a child.