Employer: Steplab
Location: Work from home, meet occasionally in London. We have an office in central London, in Highbury and Islington. We tend to come in around once per month, but we’re really flexible if you want to come in more than that. If you want to come in 5 days a week, that’s fine too. You’ll just get to meet the whole team more regularly!
Working hours: Full time, with flexible working policy
Salary: £40,000-£45,000 dependent on experience
Closing date: By 6pm, Wednesday 28th October 2026
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Content specialist
Salary: £40,000-£45,000 dependent on experience
Employment status: Full time, with flexible working policy
Job location: Work from home, meet occasionally in London
Application closing date: By 6pm, Wednesday 28th October 2026
Job start date: January 2027 (flexible based on notice periods)
Who we’re looking for
We’re looking for someone with significant experience of presenting information on effective teaching, education research and the science of learning in both written and spoken forms. Successful applicants will have designed, written or contributed to teacher facing professional development curriculums and resources, and will have a sophisticated, granular understanding of the mechanics of effective teaching. Experience of having participated in and/or led coaching is desirable. You should be as comfortable engaging in educational research around how teachers learn as you are working with school leaders and coaches.
About Steplab
At Steplab, we are driven by one mission - empowering schools to become their best through professional development that really works.
Steplab is a complete professional development (PD) platform for schools, providing everything needed to deliver evidence-informed PD. Designed by educators and grounded in research, it supports the whole school – from teachers and teaching assistants, to senior leaders and pastoral staff. Whatever the context, Steplab enables schools to build a bespoke PD approach that is practical, impactful and easy to implement.
Your responsibilities
The central part of the role includes:
Refining, creating and developing the Steplab content library of action steps & PD courses
Working with our video production team to create and use model teaching videos and resources
Managing the library of implementation and support articles used to ensure user success
Creating thought-leadership articles and resources used to share our views on teacher professional development.
Our productivity tools include Notion, Slack, Google Workspace and more. You’ll be given a MacBook to work on and whatever kit is needed for the role.
Skills and experience
Essential
Extremely strong written communication skills
Experience of designing and creating professional development and teacher curriculum resources
Firm understanding of contemporary educational research on pedagogy and leadership, with a particular focus on understanding the best ways to help teachers learn
Be great at building relationships with a wide range of teachers, coaches, middle, and senior leaders
Have exceptional organisation, planning and administrative abilities, including the ability to prioritise own and others’ workloads
Highly desirable
Experience of having led, or participated in, Instructional Coaching
Experience in delivering high-quality PD to teachers and/or leaders
Able to offer high-quality customer service, taking ownership of queries and problem-solving
Your team
Steplab at the moment is a team of over thirty highly motivated and dedicated individuals.
FAQs
What’s the remote working policy?
We have an office in central London, in Highbury and Islington. We tend to come in around once per month, but we’re really flexible if you want to come in more than that. If you want to come in 5 days a week, that’s fine too. You’ll just get to meet the whole team more regularly!
Will I get to spend any time in schools?
We believe that the entire Steplab team, whether you work in technology, support or teacher training, should get to experience the good Steplab does, day in day out, hands-on. That’s why we make sure that the entire team gets to spend some time in schools, seeing how Steplab works. We believe this is how we make a product that really works.
Do you have an office dog?
Of course! Mosi lives with our CTO, Ben, and she often comes to the office with him and Myrtle lives with Abbie and occasionally gatecrashes!
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