Partnerships Specialist
Salary: £45,000-£55,000 dependent on experience
Employment status: Full time, with flexible working policy
Job location: Work from home, meet occasionally in London
Application closing date: 27th February 2026
Job start date: April 2026 onwards (flexible start date based on notice periods)
Apply: Please send your CV and cover letter (max one page) to hello@steplab.co
We’re looking for someone with significant experience of presenting information on effective teaching, education research and the science of learning. The ideal candidate will also have experience of working in a sales or partnerships role.
You should be well-versed in contemporary educational research, pedagogy and leadership, with a particular focus on communicating the best ways to help teachers to change their practice and learn effectively.
Experience of having participated in and/or led a whole-school coaching programme is desirable.You should be as comfortable engaging in educational research around how teachers learn as you are working with school leaders and coaches to improve their practice.
This role would be perfect for a former teacher or school leader looking for a role where they can make a positive difference in the education sector.
At Steplab, we’re on a mission to transform the lives of young people by giving teachers, coaches and school leaders simple, effective and powerful tools to systematically improve professional development. We use the best available research on teacher education and Instructional Coaching to create content, build tools and share knowledge that helps schools implement PD that really works.
We are a platform-based service and provide leaders with exceptional data on the quality and content of their PD programmes.
The central part of the role includes:
- Working as part of a small team to share the impact Steplab can have in schools, trusts and training organisations
- Preparing and delivering high quality demonstrations of the platform, focused on showcasing how Steplab solves common problems school leaders face
- Building relationships with school and trust leaders through high quality communications
- Representing Steplab at external conferences and events
- Using data to continuously improve your work
- Using CRM tools (Zoho) to effectively support schools and partners to make the most of what Steplab has to offer
- Provide support to schools using Steplab by running masterclasses and responding to support queries
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
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- 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 stakeholders including teachers, middle, and senior leaders
- Have exceptional organisation, planning and administrative abilities
- Able to offer high-quality user support, taking ownership of queries and problem-solving
Highly desirable
- Experience of working in a sales or partnership role
- Experience of using Steplab
- Experience of coaching and/or being coached and having seen the benefits in your own or others’ practice
- Experience in delivering high-quality PD to teachers and/or leaders
Steplab is currently a team of over thirty highly motivated and dedicated individuals across the UK but also in Australia and the USA.
Whilst most of your work can be conducted remotely, there will be some travel required to engage in monthly team meetings (London) and attend events (National). There may also be opportunities for international travel.
📈 Fantastic career progression
We’re just at the start of our journey to become the most impactful teacher training tool in the world. As part of this journey, we will be recruiting a larger team. As an early member of this team, you’ll be in a unique position to develop your career as we grow, and to help lead our growing team.
(Not including bank holidays!) We think everyone who works at Steplab should have plenty of time to recharge and enjoy life outside of work. We offer 28 days leave plus an additional day for every year at Steplab, up to 31 days.
It’s important to us to provide our team with the best possible care and support. This includes offering a fully comprehensive health insurance package for all staff.
We now work with schools all over the world and have teams in Australia and the US, as well as close partners across Europe. So that working at Steplab feels like being part of the wider international team, we offer many opportunities to travel to work with schools and our colleagues all over the world to ensure Steplab offers the same benefits and experience to every school we work with - regardless of their location.
Our priority is creating powerful content & tools for teachers. But we also care about doing this with integrity, pushing ourselves to continually learn, and having fun along the way. We are a small, high-performing team who care about our mission, but also want to work in ways that ensure we get to live our best lives.
Visit https://steplab.co for more.
💡 Steplab is used by over 200k teachers across UK schools
FAQsWhat’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!
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.
- 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!