Salary: £45,000
Contract: Fixed-term, 13-16 months depending on start date. If the pilot succeeds, this may become a permanent role.
Start date: Before 1st September
Application closing date: 5th June 2026
Location: You can be based anywhere in the UK, but will be expected to travel to London twice a month (every other Monday) for team days.
The Maths Coach is the strategic heart of our intervention. They are the single point of contact for both the pupil and their family. This is an exceptional teaching role that reaches far beyond the classroom. You will take full responsibility for each child’s success across the programme, working closely with a cohort of 20 pupils. You’ll deliver high-challenge maths mentoring, build deep relationships with pupils and their families, advocate through key transitions, and open doors to enrichment and acceleration opportunities. With minimal bureaucracy, you’ll have the freedom to do whatever it takes to keep each child on track to excellence.
You’ll be joining a fast-moving start-up, rolling up your sleeves across a wide range of tasks, contributing to programme design, and helping build something genuinely new in the UK. If you love mathematics, can forge exceptional relationships, and thrive in a role where no two days are the same, this is for you.
High-Challenge Maths Mentoring
Deliver rich, one-to-one and small-group mentoring sessions that go well beyond the school curriculum.
Design sessions around deep problem-solving, unfamiliar challenges, and mathematical exploration — not exam preparation.
Work alongside the Director of Mathematical Programmes to co-create world-class mentoring content and curriculum materials, bringing your own mathematical creativity and pedagogical insight.
Help develop and refine the mentoring approach based on what you observe in your pupils.
Pupil and Family Relationships
Build deep, trusting relationships with each pupil and their family from day one.
Be the family's guide through key transitions — ensuring no talented child falls off the pathway due to lack of navigation.
Support parents to understand their child's potential, the opportunities ahead, and how to nurture mathematical curiosity at home.
Identify and remove practical barriers — access to technology, financial constraints, or gaps in school support — with empathy and pragmatism.
Acceleration and Enrichment Coordination
Identify and coordinate opportunities for pupils to access advanced mathematical courses, competitions, and enrichment beyond school.
Connect pupils with frontier mathematics — research, real-world applications, and the people who do it.
Help build and sustain a peer community so that pupils feel they belong to something exceptional.
Programme Building
Contribute actively to programme design, sharing observations and ideas with the wider team.
Get involved in the selection process, including running assessment days, to help identify the most talented pupils.
Take on a varied portfolio of tasks across the organisation as needed — this is a start-up, and everyone pitches in.
Help set the blueprint for what the Maths Coach role looks like at scale.
Essential
An exceptional Maths teacher, educator or tutor with a track record of inspiring and stretching highly able pupils beyond the standard curriculum
Degree in Mathematics or a closely related field
Deep love of mathematics and the ability to communicate that love to young people.
Confident leading mathematical discussions and improvising problems or lines of inquiry in direct response to pupils' ideas and questions.
Ability to build genuine, trusting relationships with children and families from diverse backgrounds.
A natural multi-tasker who thrives when juggling a varied workload and different kinds of challenges.
Comfortable with ambiguity and excited by the prospect of helping to build something from scratch.
High levels of resilience, initiative, and drive.
An understanding of, or interest in, the wider educational landscape around gifted education and talent development.
Desirable
Experience teaching or supporting advanced school mathematics, such as A-level Further Maths, STEP, MAT or TMUA, and/or mathematical enrichment, such as UKMT, Olympiad, maths circles or other problem-solving programmes
Experience of working with families from disadvantaged or under-represented backgrounds.
Experience creating curriculum or educational content.
The Maths Coaching Pilot is a new national programme that identifies mathematically extraordinary pupils in state schools - with a particular mission to find disadvantaged pupils - and provides sustained 1:2 coaching, access to advanced mathematics, and close family support from age 9 or 12 through to university entry. It is the first programme of its kind in the UK operating at this level of mathematical depth and longitudinal commitment.
The programme's mathematical teaching is led by mathematicians with backgrounds in research and international competition mathematics. You would be joining a small, collegiate coaching team in which professional development, peer observation, and mathematical exchange are built into the working week.
The programme is currently incubated within Axiom Maths and is in an 18-month funded pilot, with a clear pathway to becoming an independent organisation after a successful pilot.
Salary: £45,000
Hybrid team: We all work remotely for part of the week. The successful candidate will work in the office every other Monday at our office which is close to King's Cross (N7 9QH)
Travel costs: Travel to London for office days twice a month are included in the salary above, and is not covered by expenses. All other relevant travel is covered by expenses.
Flexible working: We work flexibly by default, and value outcomes not hours worked. All our team are empowered to organise their work in a way that balances their work and life.
Setup costs covered: We offer a £500 allowance to purchase equipment for working from home. A laptop is also provided.
Pension: 11% employer contribution
Annual leave: 27 days leave + bank holidays, increasing by 1 day after 2 years tenure (up to 30 days). The office closes for 3 additional days between Christmas and New Year.
Employee assistance programme: All our employees have access to a confidential employee assistance programme, which provides information and advice on a wide range of topics affecting their work or personal life.
Books: Any employee can expense the purchase of any book that they believe will help make them better at their job.
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We are committed to equity and inclusion in everything we do. We strongly encourage applications from candidates from under-represented backgrounds. If you might have qualified for a programme like this as a child, then we especially want to hear from you.
