Job Title: Curriculum Lead
Type: Permanent
Location: National
Salary: £72,500 per annum plus £6000 car allowance
Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Purpose of Role

Imperial Recruitment Group are working with a national Training Provider / College who are looking to appoint a Curriculum Lead – Construction on a national basis (covering East Anglia and Scotland)

Key Responsibilities

• To be accountable for and lead all curriculum management, delivery and support teams in designated departments, directly line managing all Curriculum Managers within these departments.
• Lead on embedding the strategy and delivery of high-quality, well-planned, efficient construction curriculum, that meets the needs of our customers and the construction industry in both apprenticeship and commercial programmes.
• Lead on embedding the teaching, learning and assessment strategy and developing and implementing quality improvement strategies, to ensure all standards achieved are that of a world class provider of training.
• Work closely with the Head of Curriculum Delivery to embed the strategy for apprenticeship and industry skills provision. Design a high-quality offer within areas of responsibility that delivers the college’s business plan and meets the needs of our customers and the construction sector.
• Accountable for the efficient delivery of all commercial and apprenticeship curriculum programmes, ensuring provision and delivery fully meets the requirements of each Awarding Body, and of the funding bodies.
• Accountable for the planning, development and embedding of the curriculum offer, ensuring it is reflective of future thinking and career opportunities, ensuring curriculum planning is supported by identified or clearly perceived demand, robust market analysis and a clear understanding of funding allocations.
• Work closely with the Head of Curriculum Delivery to develop and embed the strategy for teaching, learning and assessment to ensure all provisions is outstanding, and meets the requirements of the Ofsted Education Inspection Framework, as well as relevant industry standards and those of our funding bodies.
• Lead on embedding the teaching, learning and assessment strategy, identifying strengths and areas for improvements and putting robust plans in place to achieve the required improvements.
• Accountable for embedding a culture of excellence in teaching, learning and assessment and in line with the requirements of the teaching, learning and assessment strategy.
• Carry out learning walks and teaching observations, developing action plans and providing constructive feedback to colleagues.
• Accountable for ensuring that all areas of responsibility achieve all internal and external quality and financial Key Performance Indicators.
• Accountable for the curriculum planning process and ensuring that the curriculum offer is coherent in terms of optimising attainment and enabling relevant, appropriate progression to further study or employment opportunities.
• Accountable for ensuring that all curriculum resources used are high quality and in line with industry standard.
• Lead on ensuring that strategies and practices are embedded consistently to enable learners to progress, ensuring they have appropriate support to achieve the desired learning outcomes, improve their knowledge, skills and behaviours, and succeed in the industry.
• Lead on establishing, developing and maintaining strategic relationships with identified key employers, building relationships to inform curriculum, and to maximise employer engagement.
• Lead on identifying, developing and implementing new curriculum opportunities as appropriate to meet the future needs of the industry.
• Implement effective strategies for the recruitment, retention and achievement of learners, achieving higher standards year on year.

Essential:

• A construction related background with relevant qualifications.
• Level 5 teaching qualification.
• Level 2 or above in English and maths.
• Experience of working with construction related qualifications and appropriate awarding bodies.
• Leading multi-site operations in an educational setting.
• Extensive experience in leading large teams in an educational context with knowledge and experience of the Ofsted Education Inspection Framework (EIF).
• Extensive experience of implementing improvement strategies in an educational context.
• Experience of managing budgets and capital resources.
• Experience of delivering curriculum efficiencies.
• Knowledge and requirements of the delivery of apprenticeship programmes particularly the new standards in England and Modern Apprenticeships in Scotland.
• A proven track record of obtaining very good results in an educational context.
• Extensive experience of working with young people and adults to create a fantastic learning experience.
• Networking at a senior level both internally and with external stakeholders.
• Ability to working independently with reporting accountability.
• Ability to solve complex problems.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• Excellent verbal and written skills.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Ability to lead and motivate teams to achieve results.

Desirable:

• Degree or Higher Education Qualification in a relevant subject.
• Level 5 Leadership and Management qualification.
• Ofsted Inspector.

For more information, please get in touch with Dan Pilkington at Imperial Recruitment Group.