Course Franchise Lead

Job title: Course Franchise Lead

Salary range: £41,095 per annum

Type of contract: Permanent

Location: Hybrid (On site attendance required on events and team days)

Working hours: Full time, 35 hours per week

About the role

RCOG Events is entering an exciting phase of transformation as we strengthen and expand our global education portfolio. Aligned to our new five-year corporate strategy, we are evolving our courses, skills-based workshops, and webinar programme to ensure they remain innovative, financially sustainable, and globally accessible.

To support this growth, we are seeking a Course Franchise Lead to manage and scale our franchise courses across the UK and internationally. This is a pivotal operational role with the opportunity to ensure that our courses are delivered consistently to the highest quality standards while supporting the global expansion of RCOG’s education portfolio.

You will combine operational expertise with commercial insight, overseeing franchise centres, embedding standard operating procedures and quality assurance processes, and supporting scalable delivery models to extend our reach worldwide. Working closely with the Head of Course Development and Delivery, internal teams, and franchise partners, you will ensure operational excellence, maintain financial sustainability, and deliver outstanding experiences for delegates and faculty.

Collaborating with senior stakeholders, faculty, education partners, and internal teams, you will act as the key operational contact for franchise centres, driving consistency, quality, and performance while supporting the College’s wider strategic ambitions.

This is a unique opportunity to influence the global reach and impact of RCOG’s education portfolio, ensuring that high-quality learning continues to contribute to improving healthcare for women and girls worldwide.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the operational delivery and scaling of RCOG franchise courses, ensuring consistency, quality, and alignment with College standards.
• Onboard and support franchise centres, providing guidance, training, and quality assurance to maintain high standards across all locations.
• Manage contracts, monitor financial performance, and identify opportunities to grow the franchise portfolio sustainably.
• Collaborate with internal teams, faculty, and external partners to streamline processes, resolve operational challenges, and enhance the delegate and faculty experience.

For the full list of key responsibilities, please check the recruitment pack.

About you

We are seeking a proactive and results driven professional, with a proven track record of developing and scaling multi-site or franchise education programmes, courses, or workshops. The ideal candidate will be skilled at embedding consistent processes, driving operational excellence, and ensuring high-quality delivery across multiple centres. You will be commercially aware, able to influence and build strong relationships with internal teams and external partners and experienced in supporting and motivating others to achieve high performance.

Requirements

• Proven experience managing multi-site, franchise, or partner-delivered education programmes, courses, or workshops.
• Strong operational and project management skills, including developing and implementing processes, standard operating procedures, and quality assurance frameworks.
• Commercial and strategic awareness, including managing budgets, monitoring financial performance, and ensuring the sustainability of franchise courses.
• Demonstrated ability to influence, collaborate with, and manage complex stakeholders, including internal teams, faculty, committees, and external partners.

We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply, particularly those who are collaborative, solution-focused, and motivated to ensure consistent, high-quality global delivery of RCOG’s education portfolio.

Please note that while we are looking for someone who has experience leading the development and delivery of franchise, licensed or multi centre education programmes or courses, we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply, especially those who are collaborative, and motivated by leading positive change in education.

If you are excited about joining the RCOG at a pivotal moment of transformation, with ambitious goals for growth and a supportive, inclusive culture, we would love to hear from you. We will support you to get up to speed, but confidence in influencing stakeholders, developing quality assurance processes, and the ability to work both operationally and strategically whilst embedding new ways of working from the outset will be important.

Our culture and benefits

As a key member of the team, you will be located in our offices in London Bridge. We offer a friendly, values led working culture with an excellent benefits package that includes:

• Agile and flexible working environment and free lunch onsite
• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and office closure from 25 December to 1 January
• 10% pension contribution after probation
• Enhanced wellbeing and family support
• Interest-free season ticket loan after probation
• Tailored Learning and Development and study leave
• Affinity staff networks
• Life assurance and income protection schemes
• Lifestyle discounts

For a full list of the benefits we offer, please visit our careers site.

How to apply

• Click on Apply to be taken to our recruitment platform, Applied. Please visit our careers website, www.rcog-careers.org, to download the full Job pack.

• Applications close at 10.00am on Wednesday 18 March 2026

• We encourage candidates to apply early and reserve the right to close the advert and appoint before the closing date.

• Interviews will be held in person at our offices in Union Street on Thursday 26 March 2026

• If you have any additional questions about the role or how to apply, please contact the People Team on 020 7772 6453 or jobs@rcog.org.uk.

We believe that diverse teams will deliver the best outcomes for women's healthcare and we strive to be an inclusive employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and particularly encourage candidates from underrepresented groups, including those from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds and people with disabilities. To find out more, please see our Diversity Policy and Equal Opportunities Policy.

If you require any adjustments to apply for this role or need the job advert in an alternative format, please contact us via jobs@rcog.org.uk. We are happy to support with reasonable adjustments to accommodate individual needs throughout the recruitment process.

Please note: We are only accepting applicants with a right to work in the UK; we are unable to sponsor people requiring a work visa.