Curriculum Officer - Executive Officer

The College for National Security provides learning across the Civil Service and wider public sector about the threats faced by the UK and the actions needed to counter them. To respond, we need a workforce that is knowledgeable, experienced and connected.

The college is part of Government Skills and is closely tied to the National Security Secretariat. Its aim is to build responsiveness and effectiveness in the National Security practitioner community and to support other professions to learn more about national security.

This Curriculum Officer role plays a pivotal role in the end-to-end design, delivery, and administration of the Colleges curriculum. Operating in a fast-paced environment, the successful candidate will blend creative design with robust operational management. They will create engaging blended and digital learning resources (ensuring accessibility compliance), support face-to-face and virtual facilitation, evaluate training impact through data analysis, and manage the Learning Management System (LMS). This role requires a proactive problem-solver who can manage multiple projects independently while maintaining high-quality customer service.

At the College for National Security, our mission is to foster innovation, collaboration, and excellence in national security. We know that achieving this requires a workplace culture where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work.

Key Responsibilities:

Delivery & Facilitation

• Customer Relationships Management System (CRM) Oversight: Manage the CRM, including overseeing the end-to-end learner journey from pre- to post-course administrative responsibilities.

Course Design & Content Development

• Self-Directed Learning Design: Support the development of self-directed learning experiences, such as podcasts, guides and e-learning modules, utilising authoring tools such as Articulate, Adobe and Canva ensuring accessibility compliance.
• Learning Management System (LMS) Oversight: Manage the LMS, including content uploads, curation and review.

Monitoring, Evaluation & Feedback

• Data analysis and reporting: Responsible for collating and analysing feedback from learning products to identify trends and areas for improvement, and using these insights to produce evaluation reports and monthly performance dashboards for relevant boards.

Essential criteria

• Facilitation & Presentation Support: Experience in supporting a range of learning interventions such as, face-to-face courses , virtual training (via MS Teams/Google Meet using interactive tools), seminars, events etc.
• LMS, CRM & Learning Administration: Experience in using LMS and/or CRM systems (Specific platform training will be provided).
• Data analysis and reporting: Experience collating and analysing feedback from learning products to identify trends and areas for improvement, and using these insights to produce evaluation reports and monthly performance dashboards for relevant boards.
• IT Skills: Confident working knowledge of office productivity tools, including Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) or Google Workspace. Experience with video conferencing platforms (e.g., Microsoft Teams, Zoom) is required.
• Travel: Willingness to travel to different venues for work related activities, such as courses, recordings and in-person team meetings (Staff will be given notice of travel arrangements in advance).

Desirable criteria

• Learning Design: Experience designing blended learning programmes and creating engaging e-learning modules using tools like Articulate Storyline, Rise 360, or Canva, or a willingness to learn.
• Accessibility Compliance: Knowledge and understanding of Government Accessibility Regulations when developing digital content, or a willingness to learn.
• Multimedia Production: Ability to produce video or audio content to enhance the digital learning experience.
• Data Analysis & Evaluation: Experience designing evaluation tools, analysing qualitative/quantitative feedback.

Additional information:

Cabinet Office policy is that a minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace. For some roles, due to their nature and the business need, this may be up to 100%. Requirements to attend other locations for official business will also count towards this level of attendance.