Quality Assurance and Compliance Manager (maternity leave cover)

Fixed-term (March - November 2026) | Remote (UK-based)

Do your best work, for the right reasons.

Oak is a fully remote, mission-driven organisation offering high levels of flexibility, autonomy, and purpose. We’re a national not-for-profit organisation working in partnership with teachers to create high-quality, sequenced curriculum and lesson resources for pupils across all subjects and age groups.

Our culture has been independently recognised through:

• Flexa verified (93% overall score, including 95% for working hours and 97% for role modelling)
• Escape the City's Top 1% Employers – based on anonymous colleague reviews of culture, development, and impact
• Investors in People Gold - through external accreditation and colleague feedback

💡 About the Role

We’re looking for a Quality Assurance and Compliance Manager to join our Education Production team on a maternity cover basis.  

You will oversee the contracting, onboarding and development of suppliers (e.g. illustrators), ensuring a consistent high-quality approach across over 15 subjects and ~15,000 lessons. You will ensure that our digital content management processes, including post-production video editing, captioning, and signing, enhance the quality and accessibility of our curriculum. You will work closely with colleagues across Oak and external partners to ensure the optional curricula we are continually developing and maintaining are freely available to all schools in the UK and are produced to the highest possible quality.

An enhanced DBS check may be required for this role.

🔧 What You’ll Be Doing

• Responsible for liaising with external compliance and regulatory agencies.
• Leading the continuous improvement of the quality assurance and compliance elements of our production processes.
• Manage the contracting, training and development of suppliers.
• Work with Oak’s Subject Leads and other colleagues to support external partners to deliver the highest quality digital curriculum resources.
• As a member of the Oak Team, contribute to the planning and culture of the organisation.
• Work in cross-functional and product-oriented squads with colleagues from across the organisation, as required.
• Deputise for the Programme Lead and take on general responsibilities as required.

🌱 What We’re Looking For

• 2+ years experience in leading the continuous improvement of and adherence to quality assurance systems.
• Knowledge of compliance ideally in a digital/online learning for children setting.
• Proven success in establishing and maintaining supplier relationships.

The successful candidate will have a desire to contribute in all areas to ensure Oak is successful. You will be comfortable working at pace, with a range of digital systems (including proprietary ones as required) and you will continuously look at ways that the team can keep getting better. You will be excellent at working as part of a remote team, building relationships and managing your time effectively.

💛 Our Benefits

• 25 days annual leave, plus one extra day for each year of service (up to 28)
• Additional Oak closure days over Christmas/New Year
• 11% employer pension contribution (with no minimum employee contribution)
• A 36-hour working week, with half-days on Fridays or every other Friday off
• Fully remote working — we’ll support your home set-up and offer coworking options if preferred
• Twice-yearly in-person offsites to collaborate, connect, and have fun
• A culture that genuinely supports flexibility, autonomy, and trust

🌈 Inclusion and Belonging

We believe diverse teams build better products. We warmly welcome applicants from all backgrounds, particularly those who are underrepresented in the tech and education sectors.

We use the Applied recruitment platform to help reduce bias in our hiring process.

📌 Key Info

• Location: Remote, but you must be based in the UK with the legal right to work here
• Sponsorship: Unfortunately, we’re unable to offer visa sponsorship at this time
• Closing date: We’ll be reviewing applications as they come in and may close the role early

If this sounds like the kind of role and team where you could do your life’s best work, we’d love to hear from you.

Next steps

You’ll answer some questions related to your day-to-day job. Your answers will go through our sift process: all answers will be anonymised, randomised, and then reviewed by a panel of reviewers (real humans).

If you are shortlisted, we’ll invite you to the next stage, which will consist of a remote interview conducted over Zoom. This will last approximately 45 minutes.

We love giving feedback, so at the end of the application process, we'll share how well you performed.

We aim to begin interviews in January 2026.

We are receiving excellent responses to our job advertisements. This may lead us to close the role early, so if you are considering applying, then please get your application in early to avoid missing out.

We are an equal opportunities employer.

We are committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.