STANMORE COLLEGE
Curriculum Manager – English
(Fulltime, through the year, Job Share Considered)
Are you ready to lead and inspire?
Do you have a passion for English and a drive to shape the future of education? If you're looking for a role where you can make a real impact and lead a dynamic team, Stanmore College has the perfect opportunity for you!
About Us & Our Vision:
Stanmore College is dedicated to transforming lives through exceptional education and support. We are a forward-thinking institution that values innovation, creativity, and collaboration. Our mission is to empower students, staff, and the community to reach their full potential. The college will be an educational hub providing a unique educational destination for local people to acquire the relevant skills, training and education to support them to access and build their career ambitions.
The learning campus will be a flexible and accessible place where staff students, employers and stake holders can gather, interrogate, learn, gain skills and progress as well as become a lifetime member of an inclusive learning community —and we're looking for a Curriculum Manager in English who shares this vision.
Values:
· Inclusive: we value all people
· Aspirational: we want to do our best to achieve a high level of success
· Supportive: we encourage and support each other
· Respectful: we shown consideration for others
· Open and honest: we tell the truth and do not try to deceive people
· Innovation: we step outside our comfort zone trying things in new ways
· Safeguarding: we believe in protecting people’s health, wellbeing and human rights
· Ambitions: we encourage students to exceed their expectations.
· Student focus: we actively involve students
· Collaborative: we adopt multiple educational approaches
The Role:
As the Curriculum Manager in English, you will be at the heart of our English department, leading a team of passionate educators and driving curriculum excellence. This is not just a management role—it's an opportunity to shape the future of English education at Stanmore College and beyond. You will have the opportunity to:
· Lead and Inspire: Provide strategic leadership to the English department, inspiring your team to deliver outstanding teaching and learning.
· Driving Innovation: Develop and implement a cutting-edge curriculum that meets the needs of our diverse student body, from 16-18-year-olds to adult learners.
· Championing Success: Support students in overcoming challenges, particularly those resitting their English exams due to government requirements, helping them build confidence and achieve their goals.
· Collaborating for Excellence: Work closely with colleagues across the college to ensure our English provision is innovative, inclusive, and aligned with best practices.
What We Offer:
- A Dynamic Work Environment: Be part of a vibrant and collaborative team that is passionate about education and committed to student success.
- Opportunities for Growth: We support your professional development with ongoing training, mentorship, and opportunities to advance your career within the college.
- The Chance to Make a Difference: Your work will have a direct impact on the lives of our students, helping them achieve their aspirations and open doors to their future.
- A Supportive Community: Join a college that values creativity, diversity, and the well-being of its staff and students.
How to Apply:
If you're ready to take on this exciting challenge and lead our English department to new heights, we want to hear from you! Please submit your CV and a cover letter detailing your experience and what you can bring to this role by following the link: stanmore. dot ac dot uk/Vacancies
Salary Scale: £43,226-£46,640 per annum
Closing Date: Wednesday, 21st August 2024
Interview Date: Friday, 06th September 2024
“We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, if we receive sufficient applications or source a suitable candidate. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.”
Note: Successful candidates will be contacted for interviews. Stanmore College reserves the right not to make an appointment if a suitable candidate is not identified.
Join Stanmore College and be a key player in our mission to transform futures—one student at a time.
JOB DESCRIPTION
POST: Curriculum Manager – English
(Full time, through the year, job share considered)
LOCATION: Stanmore college, Stanmore Campus
RESPONSIBLE TO: HEAD OF FACULTY – ENGLISH, MATHS & ESOL
RESPONSIBLE FOR: A team of teaching staff
DEPARTMENT: English
Responsibilities across curriculum, performance management of a team of staff in agreement with the Head of Faculty.
Overall purpose of the job:
- To manage the department of the area of English enduring a high quality, cost effective, efficient and legally compliant curriculum is provided or commissioned in a culture in which innovation is encouraged.
- High performance is recognised and success is celebrated whilst also contributing to the overall achievement and outcomes and the success of the study programmes at the College.
- To liaise with curriculum staff within vocational area as well as the English team to support staff to facilitate the smooth organisation and effective utilization of staffing and physical resources to optimise the student learning experience.
- To ensure recruitment, retention and achievement in learners are fully supported and facilitated.
- To be responsible for the management of the English element of the study programme and the learning programmes associated with English for adult learners.
Specific Duties:
- To manage the staff within the curriculum area of English and be responsible for delivery of a portfolio of innovative and market lead learning programmes relating to English. Ensuring their viability, value for money, quality and effectiveness in line with the colleges strategic plan.
- Too support the head of faculty, maths, English and ESOL in ensuring statutory regulatory and key responsible issue relating to the management of the curriculum across all learning areas of responsibility is adhered to.
- To implement an effective model of standard professionalism and positive culture through strong leadership and building effective and efficient teams.
- Ensure that the curriculum area hits the targets underpinning the strategic plan.
- To oversee the full and consistent implementation of the quality assurance framework.
- To conduct appropriate audit checks including IV and review where appropriate.
- To implement a wide range of teaching and student centred learning strategies across the area of English.
- To teach an appropriate range of courses to ensure that all delivery teams and individual tutors are clear, focussed and supported to be able to deliver high quality learning and teaching resulting in high success and achievement rates for each funding scheme throughout the curriculum.
- To ensure where appropriate initial assessment in literacy our comprehensively completed and used to guide learners to suitable programmes for their ability.
- To ensure learning support is effectively integrated into courses in order that work may be contextualised to the vocational area where appropriate.
- To ensure compliance with all course examination assessment validation requirements for FE rather than the ACL provision.
- To liaise and work effectively with the full range of support services int eh college to ensure marketing enrolment and support enhances the curriculum offering and recruitment including supporting planned marketing and promotional events.
- To foster new partnerships and pursue new marketing opportunities in lien with the colleges strategic plan.
- To work collaboratively on cross college and cross department projects.
- To take responsibility for personal professional development in consultation with the line manager and be proactive and willing to invest in own development subject to the viability of proof of resources and job/organisation requirements.
- To carry out all duties and responsibilities in accordance with all college policies, quality, diversity, inclusion, safeguarding, health and safety, core values and behaviours, strategic college plan.
- To be responsible for health and safety issues.
- To be responsible for creating inclusive non discriminatory learning environment in line with the colleges quality policy.
- To participate in the college’s appraisals scheme and work towards achievement of exceeding targets set.
- Carrying out appraisals for all staff teachers of English.
- To undertake any other such comparable duties as may be reasonably required by the line manager, head of faculty or dedicated deputy.]
- Responsible for student data.
The postholder can be required to carry out any other duties consistent with the grade of the post, at any site on which the College may operate.
This job description is current at the date shown below. In consultation with the postholder, it is liable to variation by management within a reasonable timescale to reflect or anticipate changes in or to the job.
Salary Range: £43,226 - £46,640 per annum
Closing date for applications is Wednesday, 21st August 2024
Interviews to be held on Friday, 06th September 2024
“We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, if we receive sufficient applications or source a suitable candidate. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.”
Note: Successful candidates will be contacted for interviews. Stanmore College reserves the right not to make an appointment if a suitable candidate is not identified.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £43,226.00-£46,640.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Bereavement leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- On-site gym
- On-site parking
- Sabbatical
- Sick pay
- Store discount
- Work from home
Schedule:
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 21/08/2024