Change Manager & Training Lead

Aldar Education is seeking a Change Manager & Training Lead to support our growing family of schools in the United Arab Emirates. This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled professional to to join the highly successful Aldar family of schools and to help shape the future of Abu Dhabi’s leading school group.

Since its inception in 2007 with just 250 students, Aldar Education has grown into a highly sought-after education provider, with more than 25 owned and managed premium and super-premium schools and academies- in partnership with some of the world’s most prestigious institutions including Rugby School, King’s College Wimbledon, and Cranleigh. The Group now serves over 38,000 students through 5,000 educators from more than 100 nationalities to deliver world-class education across a broad range of curricula and learning pathways from nursery through to K12.

At Aldar Education, our impact goes far beyond the classroom: we are proud to contribute to the UAE’s vision for a sustainable, knowledge-based economy through premium education. With this in mind, we hire educators and industry professionals who not only embody our values and cultural ethos but also bring a genuine passion for education—qualities central to our mission of shaping the leaders of tomorrow.

If you are passionate about excellence and ready to make a meaningful impact, we invite you to apply and be part of our journey.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead end-to-end change management and training delivery across Aldar Education’s Digital Transformation portfolio, ensuring successful adoption of new digital platforms, operational processes, and user experiences across schools and HQ functions.

The role will design and deliver stakeholder engagement, communications, training, adoption tracking, and reinforcement activities across multiple concurrent initiatives including LMS rollout, parent platforms, payments, CRM, communications tools, and operational process redesign.

This is a 6-month fixed-term delivery role focused on driving business readiness, adoption, and sustained usage of new systems and ways of working.

Responsibilities

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

• Conduct stakeholder mapping across HQ and schools
• Establish school champion network
• Build engagement plans for impacted audiences
• Manage stakeholder expectations and readiness
• Support leadership alignment and communication

Communications Planning & Delivery

• Create role-based communications strategy
• Develop multi-wave change communications
• Produce awareness, education and reinforcement messaging
• Create FAQs and guidance content
• Support parent-facing communications for new platforms

Training Design & Delivery

• Design role-based training programmes
• Create quick reference guides and user manuals
• Develop instructional videos and digital content
• Deliver webinars and in-person training sessions
• Implement train-the-trainer model where required
• Build LMS training content and learning pathways

Adoption & Reinforcement

• Define adoption success metrics per initiative
• Track usage and engagement
• Deliver reinforcement campaigns post go-live
• Support schools during transition periods
• Provide reporting on adoption progress

Programme Change Coordination

• Maintain change and training calendar
• Align rollout with academic cycles
• Coordinate training logistics across schools
• Work with product and IT teams on readiness
• Support go-live planning and hypercare

Content Creation

• Develop short instructional videos
• Create platform embedded guidance
• Produce user walkthrough content
• Build digital learning resources for staff

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.