We're Hiring - Head of Skills Academy - Cyber and Fraud Centre

Head of Skills Academy – Permanent Full Time Monday-Thursday

Salary – £30,000 – £35,000 depending on experience

Cyber and Fraud Centre Scotland – City Centre Edinburgh – Hybrid

Do you want to work for a social enterprise and help make a positive impact in cyber security?

Who we are

The Cyber and Fraud Centre is Scotland’s only cyber social enterprise. Our mission as a socially driven organisation is to deliver accessible, affordable, and relevant cyber and fraud services. With our dedicated team, we protect organisations all over Scotland by offering professional services, skills, and community building. The Cyber and Fraud Centre has established itself as an authoritative voice in the realm of cyber safety and resilience ensuring a safer and more robust business landscape in Scotland.

Our values: integrity, ethical and making a difference are at the heart of everything we do. We ensure that all private, public and third sector organisations we work with have access to our people and resources, to stay secure. We are dedicated to promoting cybersecurity and providing comprehensive support within the business sector. We achieve this through the delivery of education and preventative training, as well as actively raising awareness of threats throughout the business community and providing support in the event of an incident. It is our intention that organisations have the skills and knowledge to protect themselves against online attacks.

We are a small, high performing team with a focus on genuine care and respect for one another as we work to bring cyber safety to organisations around Scotland. The threat landscape is constantly evolving, and this is an exciting time to join us as we continue to grow and expand our services. Due to the volume of calls we received from individual victims of fraud and cyber crimes, we created a charity, Cyber and Fraud Hub to provide support to individuals, which this role will also support. We have an internal culture and well-being group, and we meet to discuss what we have been doing, and what new things we can do to further enhance the experience for employees. This has led to us implementing a 4-day working week.

About the role

We are looking for our Head of Skills Academy to lead and deliver the strategy of the skills academy for the Cyber and Fraud Centre Scotland by fostering a collaborative and innovative teaching environment.

Key Head of Skills responsibilities will include:

Accountability for the planning, development and delivery of the academy offerings.
Leading on embedding the teaching, learning and assessment strategy and developing and implementing quality improvement strategies for the skills academy.
Identifying strengths and areas for improvements and putting robust plans in place to achieve the required improvements.
Accountability for ensuring that all curriculum resources used are of high quality.
Creating and delivering Head of Skills Academy strategy.
Enabling learners to progress, ensuring they have appropriate support to achieve the desired learning outcomes, improve their knowledge, skills and behaviours.
Leading on identifying, developing and implementing new curriculum opportunities as appropriate to meet needs.

About you

You will be joining a caring and committed team with a strong sense of purpose.

You will have

Have a relevant qualification along with hands on experience. You must be accredited/hold a formal training qualification for example: Level 3 Award in Education & Training (AET), Level 4 Certificate in Education & Training, Level 5 Diploma in Education & Training (DET).
Have experience in creating and delivering training courses and webinars.
Have excellent verbal communication and writing skills.
Be proficient in the use of Microsoft Office.
Have the ability to prioritise workload with flexibility to meet operational needs.
Have excellent organisational and time management skills.
Have the ability to problem solve.
Have strong attention to detail.
Work effectively in a team and on your own initiative with minimum supervision.
Be positive, have a proactive mindset, ready to support a collaborative team.
Have excellent interpersonal skills.
Have an understanding of cybersecurity concepts. It is desirable that you have experience delivering cyber related training courses.
Have the ability to work independently and in a team.
Be passionate for learning and development.

You must have the right to work in the UK. For further information please see Head of Skills Academy job description.

Job Description – Head of Cyber Skills Academy Download

To apply

Send an up-to-date CV and cover letter setting out your suitability for the role to [email protected]. Application deadline: 5pm Thursday 8^th January 2026.

22.12.25

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