Director of Delivery
Employer: FIRST UK
Location: Our team is home-based, coming together regularly to co-work, and deliver events. You should expect to attend a team collaboration day at least monthly, usually in London. This may require an overnight stay dependent on your location. If you can conduct your role effectively and are willing to travel to maximise growth opportunities, you can be based anywhere in the UK.
Working hours: Full Time
Salary: Not listed
Closing date: 2359 on Wed 14 Oct 2026
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What we're looking for
An exceptional leader who will deploy a systematic approach to identify, build and retain relationships with educators, employers, and government, which will underpin our growth – whilst ensuring safety, quality, and impact of experience for young people, teachers, and volunteers.
As Delivery Director, you will be the senior leader accountable for two inextricably linked elements:
Growth - more schools, teachers, young people, employers, volunteers
Scalability - overseeing safe, high-quality, efficient, replicable delivery
You will implement the growth architecture which scales the charity’s impact through:
Proactive, targeted growth in regional hubs aligned to strategic objectives
Better, earlier, sustained engagement with schools and educators
System-level entry points through MATs, educator networks, strategic partners
Retention mechanisms that embed participation institutionally
Ownership of quality & impact measures supporting participation, completion, return
Regional industry partner/employer pipeline building, conversion, stewardship
Volunteer and alumni community oversight, experience and quality
Your operational tenacity coupled with highly effective relationship building will catapult the charity towards being the UK’s leading industry-linked, robotics-based education and careers accelerator by 2030 – present in over 20% of all secondary schools, impacting thousands of less-advantaged, less represented young people whilst influencing system change.
What you'll get
In addition to a , making STEM accessible to young people who are too often excluded from it, alongside measurable, evidenced outcomes and a growing profile with funders and media you will get:
Leadership, autonomy and sense of purpose
A compelling value proposition and strong operational platform to build on
A well-defined strategy to execute against
Sector credibility, positive reputation and relationships to grow
Competitive salary, benefits in a lean, agile and fast-paced organisation
You will be the leader who takes a charity from start-up mode to a nationally recognised, regionally embedded impact organisation – transforming the outlook for thousands of young people annually.
Requirements
Who might this role suit?
Someone who gets growth and has credible experience owning and scaling a programme, product, or service. You’re systematic in approach whilst appreciating the power of relationships and delivery through others. A sophisticated leader, you motivate, coach and support others to achieve more. You see the challenges and opportunities within a high growth potential organisation and are always ahead of them.
You might already be working in the Education or Third sector looking for your first directorship. Perhaps you’re seeking transition from the commercial or tech sector into a truly purpose-led leadership role. Either way you understand what’s needed to operationalise growth – and are already asking what it means to be ‘More Than Robots’.
Knowledge and experience
You possess:
Proven track record taking a programme or service and systemising growth through prioritised stages of engagement, pipeline management, conversion and retention.
Demonstrable experience scaling a programme without diluting quality, impact or safety. Moving an organisation from validated /proof of concept into structured, cumulative, sustainable growth.
Credibility at C-suite and boardroom level; a confident public representative able to carry FIRST UK’s case at senior education, industry, funder, government and policy forums – comfortable with diverse public speaking/media engagements.
Experience opening institutional routes into schools through MATs, academy trusts, regional groupings or system-level partners, enabling one relationship to unlock many.
Fluency in monitoring, evaluation and learning. Able to design or commission an outcomes framework, use it to guide programme decisions, and translate it into evidence others can act on.
Track record leading and developing teams through growth and change in a lean organisation. Building trust, coaching direct reports, handling performance constructively, and maintaining clarity, accountability and morale when priorities shift and capacity is tight.
Experience working within a regulated youth-facing programme/activity/organisation with safeguarding and risk management as a golden thread. An enhanced DBS check will be required for the post holder, alongside Level 3 Leading on Safeguarding training (which can be completed post-appointment).
Passion for STEM, diversity, using tech for good
Skills and abilities
You might have:
Existing relationships with schools, MATs, UTCs, careers hubs, LEAs, further and higher education, industry partners – or experience developing such.
Experience designing or scaling large volunteer or mentor-matching programmes, particularly employee-engagement models.
Experience building or scaling a regional, cluster or hub-based operating model, with a view on hub economics, sequenced regional prioritisation, local partner relationships and playbook standardisation.
Experience devising, implementing or working on programmes which involve training, accreditation, and personal development.
Use of a CRM (Salesforce or equivalent) to manage, forecast and report on pipelines and create actionable data / insights. User of AI and other technologies which achieve more, better, sooner.
Values and behaviours
You display:
Credibility – you’re a leader, you believe in yourself and the mission
Energy – you’re a radiator, not a drain
Tenacity – you spot opportunities others miss
Persistence – you keep pushing against doors until one opens
Attention to detail – you love a perfectly polished powerpoint or excel
Empathy - you listen, understand needs, consider perspectives, then act
I'm loving the sound of this is there more I need to know?
If there is, we'll chat about it at the get-to-know stage.
Benefits
Conditions
We don’t talk about benefits; we talk about culture. It’s not how many hours you work or where you work them – it’s what you deliver.
Competitive salary: £75K - £84K per annum
28 days annual leave
Remote/flexible working
3% pension + death in service (4 x annual salary)
Generous enhanced maternity/paternity
Staff wellbeing programme
Location
Our team is home-based, coming together regularly to co-work, and deliver events. You should expect to attend a team collaboration day at least monthly, usually in London. This may require an overnight stay dependent on your location. If you can conduct your role effectively and are willing to travel to maximise growth opportunities, you can be based anywhere in the UK.
Process
Applications via our HR platform Workable
Submit CV and optional cover letter (no more than 1 page)
Answer two simple screening questions
Role closes 2359 on Wed 14 Oct 2026
Get to Know conversations with CEO w/c 19 Oct
Panel interviews w/c 26 Oct
The first stage in the process will be a short (up to 40 min) ‘get-to-know’ chat with the CEO. This will be opportunity to ask questions about the organisation, role, share experience, motivations, and explore fit.
Where a potential mutual fit is identified from this conversation, candidates will be invited to a formal interview with the CEO and a Trustee. This will include a short pre-task. The charity hopes to confirm appointment by early November.
Safer Recruitment
To apply you must live in, and have the right to work in the UK. In accordance with our Safer Recruitment Policy, all employees of the charity will be asked for two references which will be conducted by phone and are subject to Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service checks upon appointment.
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