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SALARY: Up to £67 FTE per annum plus Pension
JOB TYPE: Permanent
HOURS: This post is a full time position, 37 hours per week
LOCATION: Stevenage Campus
About the Role:
We are thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity for an experienced and dynamic professional to join us as Head of Curriculum. This is a unique and pivotal role at an incredibly exciting time for the College, as we embark on the launch of our new strategic plan. This plan sets a clear vision for our future and positions us at the forefront of educational excellence in the life sciences and digital technologies sectors.
The Head of Curriculum will play a crucial role in shaping and leading our curriculum in these rapidly evolving fields. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact, not only within the College but also within our thriving local and regional community, with immense potential for collaboration with key partners and employers in life sciences and digital technologies.
As the sector continues to grow, we are committed to ensuring our students are equipped with the skills and knowledge required to thrive in the science and digital industries. Our strategic vision focuses on enhancing our partnerships, driving innovation, and ensuring our curriculum meets current and future industry standards, all while delivering an exceptional student experience.
If you are a passionate and experienced leader with a strong background in Health and Education and are ready to take on the challenge of driving forward our ambitions and strategic goals, we would love to hear from you. Join us at this exciting stage of our journey and help us shape the future of education in these vital sectors.
If you have the skills and attributes detailed in the person specification below and experience to deliver the duties outlined in the job description, we look forward to receiving your application.
Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Lead on curriculum design and development of the curriculum, ensuring that College activity is aligned to the delivery of strategic objectives
- Seek out opportunities for innovation and have the courage to take risks and make step changes to how things are done
- Empower others to put forward creative and innovative approaches and take appropriate risks
- Develop an ethos of high expectations of staff and students across all programmes.
- Drive and deliver a culture that emphasises continuous improvement, efficiency and value for money
- Lead on teaching, learning and assessment and aspects of developing pedagogy to drive standards of teaching and learning
- Be proactive in supporting teachers to create a stimulating and challenging learning environment which secures effective learning and provides high standards of achievement, behaviour and student motivation.
- Motivate and inspire the team to develop their own skills and behaviours
- Identify, nurture and lead talent effectively to help meet future strategic objectives
- Devise, lead and deliver whole staff professional development and training when necessary.
- To work with cross college Heads of Curriculum to maximise student progress in maths and English and support the raising of achievement in GCSE /Functional Skills English and GCSE maths.
- Support the Director of Curriculum and Deputy Principal in the monitoring of the quality of teaching and student progress, including the analysis of performance and progress data.
- Deliver against agreed student retention, attendance, success and value-added targets
- Work with colleagues across the college to deliver an overall student experience, which engages, inspires and prepares students for the world of work.
- Use customer insight to determine and drive customer service outcomes and quality throughout own work
- Implement an effective and efficient resource model to support the delivery of curriculum including for example; optimised timetabling; staff utilisation across the curriculum area of responsibility; and, in the use of learning technologies to support social and self-directed learning.
- Understand the financial position of own area, the organisation and the wider economy and recognise impacts of this when delivering services
- Provide comprehensive regular reports on budgets with accurate forecasting and identification of interventions to ensure budgets are met
- Lead a team of teaching staff; provide colleagues with inspiration, direction and support they need to deliver outstanding teaching and learning, whilst improving in their own roles.
- Create and encourage a culture of initiative, flexibility and responsiveness, mobilising your area of responsibility to respond swiftly to changing priorities
- With the support of quality and innovation colleagues, comply to the college’s systematic programme of quality assurance and improvement.
- Support the college’s Ofsted quality nominee to ensure accurate and robust information is provided, resulting in the best possible inspection outcome for the college and its students.
- Work with colleagues across the college to ensure we are providing necessary safeguarding support for students.
- Work with MIS colleagues to maintain accurate up to date learner records, whilst ensuring funding is maximised in each curriculum area of responsibility.
About the Organisation:
The College operates across three main campuses in Stevenage and Hitchin, employing over 650 staff. With a turnover of £30m, the college provides learning opportunities to over 10,000 students each year from study programmes for 16-18 year olds and apprenticeships through to adult provision locally, regionally and nationally. We were judged Good by Ofsted at our last inspection in December 2023, with outstanding features.
MORE THAN JUST A SALARY
- Contributory pension scheme
- For a full outline of benefits, click here
PERSON SPECIFICATION
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Main Roles and Responsibilities
General duties
- To contribute to the effective management and promotion of equality and diversity
- To work in accordance with the Health & Safety at Work Act, ensuring the College is a safe environment for staff, students and visitors.
- To promote with staff and students the importance of safeguarding the welfare of children and vulnerable adults they are responsible for and come into contact with.
- To work at all times in accordance with North Hertfordshire College’s policies and procedures.
- To carry out such duties as may be required from time to time by the college that are appropriate to the grade of the post
This job description is intended as a general guide to the duties attached to the post and is not an inflexible specification.
TO APPLY
SAFER RECRUITMENT STATEMENT
The Hart Learning Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, as our posts are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. It is also an offence to apply for a role if you have been barred from working with children, young people and vulnerable adults. If you have been shortlisted for a role and are within the guidelines of KCSIE, an online search will be carried out to identify any incidents or issues that have happened and are publicly available online. If any incidents or issues are identified, the Group might want to explore these with you at the interview. As part of the recruitment process, you will need to provide proof of their right to work in the UK.
Details of our Safeguarding policy can be found on the Hart Learning Group’s Policy page.
To view our fair recruitment forms, please click here for equality and diversity declaration.
Please note these vacancies may close at any time once sufficient applications have been received. Early submission of your application is therefore encouraged.
“There is a great culture at NHC and the team is wonderfully helpful and supportive. I feel valued here. I also feel like I find myself in the classroom, and that I can pass my knowledge on to my students and know that I can make an impact on their lives.”