Change Manager & Training Lead (Temporary)

Main Duties

• Lead end-to-end change management across Aldar Education digital initiatives
• Design and execute change and communications strategies
• Deliver role-based training across schools and HQ
• Drive adoption and business readiness for new systems
• Establish and manage school champion network
• Develop training materials, guides and digital learning content
• Track adoption metrics and deliver reinforcement plans
• Coordinate change activities across multiple programme workstreams
• Support go-live planning and post-implementation adoption
• Work closely with product, operations, and school stakeholders
• Specific Duties

Change Management & Stakeholder Engagement

Communications Planning & Delivery

Training Design & Delivery

Adoption & Reinforcement

Programme Change Coordination

Content Creation

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Education, Change Management, or related field
• Change Management certification preferred (Prosci, APMG, or equivalent)
• Training / Learning Design certification desirable
• Minimum Experience
• 5+ years’ experience in Change Management, Training, or Digital Transformation delivery
• Experience delivering organisational change across multiple stakeholder groups
• Experience designing and delivering training programmes
• Experience supporting system implementations or digital transformation
• Education sector experience preferred but not essential
• Job Specific Knowledge & Skills
• Strong change management methodology experience
• Training design and facilitation expertise
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills
• Strong communications and storytelling capability
• Experience delivering webinars and in-person training
• Experience building training content and guides
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Strong adoption tracking and reporting capability
• Experience working with digital platforms and system rollouts
• Excellent English language skills, written and oral
• Work in a highly collaborative and effective manner
• Ability to influence stakeholders at all levels
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to operate independently in delivery role
• Strategic thinking with hands-on delivery mindset
• Commercial awareness and delivery focus

WHAT WE OFFER

• Aldar Education is a family of world-class, child-centered, and innovative schools based in the UAE. We educate over 34,000 students across our group of owned and managed schools, and as we grow, so does our need for highly skilled, inspirational, and dedicated school leaders. We offer an attractive remuneration package including medical cover, flights, housing, and free child school places. Our future-focused learning model includes both students and staff, so we place a special emphasis on professional development, coaching and training.
• Successful candidates will have access to a wide network of professionals and opportunities to both lead and contribute to training others as well as developing themselves.
• Aldar Education is keen to hear from like-minded, forward thinking school leaders who would welcome the challenges and opportunities that we have to offer.
• This job description is not all inclusive. Aldar Education reserves the right to amend this job description at any time. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. We are also mindful of our national development strategy and encourage UAE Nationals in their application at our company.
• Aldar Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Offers of appointment are subject to satisfactory references and police clearance.