Full-time | Permanent | £48,266 per annum
Who we are:
At City College Plymouth you will be joining a college that is proud of its culture, where our core values of Respect, Ownership and Integrity are there to nurture and support a passion for teaching and learning, enriching our community through knowledge, experience and skills enabling every student to be the best they can be.
At City College Plymouth, one of the country’s largest providers of quality education and training, we are going through a period of transition to enable us to propel education into the future. We pride ourselves on delivering a learning environment and organisational culture that impact positively on the health, wellbeing and sustainability of our community and enables all our students and staff to achieve their full potential.
The Role:
The college is seeking to recruit a dynamic and transformational leader to drive forward our Computing & Digital provision bringing innovation and aspiration leading to delivery of exceptional standards. At a time when advances in technology are evolving rapidly across both society and the world of work this role will set the standard in ensuring that our digital provision equips all our learners with the skills required to thrive. The role provides an outstanding opportunity to shape the digital future of our college and make a lasting impact on the digital landscape of our region. This exciting role will also understand the importance of inspiring others and achieving success through teamwork whilst also meeting the needs of skills in these key sectors. Motivated and driven, creative and forward thinking, the role will allow for someone to bring their own brilliance whilst working within the anchor institution for skills.
Main Responsibilities:
- Developing motivated, inspired, high-performing staff;
- Transforming our digital curriculum to position the College as the leading provider of Digital skills in the region
- Delivering day-to-day financial efficiencies and agreed budgets;
- Growing the College - in the eyes of our students, our Governors, and employers and stakeholders across the city and the Southwest;
Positioning the College as the provider of choice for digital skills training across the region will be achieved, in part, by
- modernising the curriculum to ensure relevance to the emerging digital landscape
- introducing supplementary professional micro-credentials across our existing provision to ensure that students develop industry recognised skills that makes them highly employable to potential employers
- developing a broad technical skills offer to meet the needs of the region's digital sector across AI and machine learning, cyber security, cloud computing, networking, data analytics, web design, software and games development
- implementing an essential and developing skills offer to address the digital skills gaps and drive digital equity across the city and wider region
- broadening our digital apprenticeship offer, developing both the traditional apprenticeship offer as well as an increased Higher apprenticeship offer
- develop a culture of innovation and continuous digital evolution to ensure our curriculum and staff are at the forefront of the digital skills agenda
In addition this will be achieved through planning, resourcing and continually monitoring and enhancing the quality of exceptional curriculum delivery, through excellent teaching and learning that exceeds expectations and aspirations, whilst building relationships internally and externally with purpose and passion - working closely with the Executive Leadership Team to meet the strategic aims of the College as the learning destination of choice. The ideal candidate will bring their Computing and Digital experience and be passionate about enabling every student to be the best they can be leading to positive destination outcomes.
You will need to be people-focused and commercially-minded, able to develop great teams who deliver an outstanding education to our students that excites and exceeds the needs of both students and employers of today and tomorrow.
What Will You Bring to the Role
Delivering – you will deliver results with confidence and take action to resolve queries independently. You will deliver a high standard of pastoral care to your students.
Organising – you will be self-disciplined and able to organise your own workload. You will be able to deal with multiple issues at once, and document and record information.
Interacting – you will be able to adapt your behaviour to develop effective relationships both within your own team and across the College. You will be comfortable networking and proactively connecting with others.
Coping – you will cope well in challenging situations, maintaining focus and composure. You will be confident working in a fast paced environment.
Inductive Reasoning - you can apply new knowledge to situations through analysis and response. You can understand and interpret change over time.
Benefits
City College Plymouth will offer you;
- Holiday: 35 days plus bank holidays and College Closure over Christmas.
- Career development opportunities.
- Generous contributions towards your pension.
- Free tea, coffee and lunch in our dedicated staff lounge.
We aim to recruit based on potential, not experience. We are interested in seeing your behaviours in action and how they will help you become successful at City College Plymouth, giving everyone the opportunity to show their potential, regardless of background or experience.
The closing date for applications will be on Monday 16th September 2024. Interviews will be held on Wednesday 25th August 2024, further details will follow for those shortlisted.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £48,266.00 per year
Schedule:
Work Location: In person