The DfES is searching for someone to fill the new post of director for the Workforce Development Unit in its children's directorate.
With a salary of up to 95,000, the candidate will be on the same level as the national clinical director for children, Al Aynsley-Green, and Sure Start director Naomi Eisenstadt.
The Workforce Development Unit will attempt to bring together all professions that work with children.
"Some elements of all our training could be more in common," said NCB chief executive Paul Ennals.
"A lot of professionals working with children receive very little training about child development and very little about how to communicate with children," he said.
