Jon is Director of Curriculum and Teacher Development at the Reach Foundation. His work focusses on supporting schools and trusts to develop cradle to career provision in their communities, as well as building school leadership pipelines through regional headteacher preparation programmes. 

Since 2022 Jon has held an international Fellowship with New America on the Learning Sciences Exchange. Jon is also cofounder of Meno Academy, a platform providing high quality, bite-sized subject knowledge videos for primary school teachers. He currently sits on the new government's independent Curriculum and Assessment Review panel.

Prior to this, Jon was a primary school teacher and assistant headteacher at Reach Academy Feltham, an all-through school in London. Alongside teaching, Jon was also a Visiting Fellow at Ambition Institute, where he tutored on the Masters in Expert Teaching Programme. Over the last decade Jon has also regularly acted as an expert advisor to the Department for Education, including as a member of the core group which developed the Early Career Framework.

From 2018-2020 Jon led the development of a fully resourced humanities curriculum at Key Stage 2, which successfully won a bid for the Department of Education's Curriculum Fund and was later taught in over 150 schools. 

During the pandemic, Jon was part of the team that set up Oak National Academy, and led the primary humanities curriculum for the first year. He has written chapters in several education books, including the ResearchEd Guide to Leadership and Primary Huh 2. 

Jon is the series editor for a collection of primary subject leadership books for Bloomsbury.