Curriculum Team Leader - Career Pathways (Transitions)

Rotherham College, Rotherham

About the Role

We have a new and exciting opportunity for a Curriculum Team Leader with a responsibility for programs of study across all Level 1 pathways.

You will be delivering Pathway/Transition qualifications and will be responsible for overseeing classroom-based learners.

Ideally you should have an employability background. This is a real opportunity as a passionate and innovative teacher and industry-skilled specialist to make this your own ‘Centre of Excellence’ within the region.

As a Curriculum Team Leader, you will coordinate and lead pathway provision study programmes and will deliver around 828 hours teaching, completing the relevant preparation and marking that supports this, and setting SMART targets to enable students to reach their potential. You will also supervise staff within your area and have some performance management responsibilities.

Working with a supportive team including leadership from our Curriculum Manager, and working alongside lecturers. This established team of education professionals deliver engaging practical and digital study, leading our future students to gain high quality industry standards.

You will…

In this role industry experience is essential as well as experience delivering, assessing and verifying all levels. You should have experience of co-ordination and managing a range of courses and be able to give our students an enriching experience from day one.

You must have recent experience of leading or working as part of team within an education establishment, with evidence of delivering strong outcomes and high-quality teaching and learning, plus leading a commercial environment.

You should ideally have a background in employability and relevant industry experience, a teaching qualification and an assessor’s award. You will hold at least GCSE grade 1-4 (or equivalent) qualification in English and maths. You will hold a minimum level 5 teaching qualification. You will hold an assessors award qualification An IQA qualification will also support this role.

You will be able to lead your team successfully, working collaboratively with colleagues in this area and across other subjects. You will have good contacts with industry professionals and can work with them effectively to shape our future curriculum as well as providing excellent opportunities for our students to gain first-hand experience in this area.

Department Info

Your line manager will be the Curriculum Manager and you will regularly report on your objectives to update them on a range of KPI’s including (but not limited to) student recruitment, retention, anticipated achievement, attendance and punctuality.

You will provide day to day leadership, guidance and support to Lecturers & Programme Leaders in your teams through informal methods and regular team meetings. You will also liaise with all staff that teach on your programme(s), monitoring performance indicators.

Our excellent benefits and rewards package:

• Access to teachers pensions scheme
• Up to 50 days annual leave per year including closure during Christmas period
• Access to our gyms, restaurants and salons
• Staff health & wellbeing and benefits schemes including in-house Occupational Health service
• Full, part time and flexible working hours available in many roles
• Parking available at all of our sites
• Fantastic career development opportunities including funding for teacher training, apprenticeships and various other industry recognised qualifications
• New FE teachers can also apply for grants of up to £6,000 in STEM subjects (conditions apply) through the levelling up premium payments initiative
• Recruitment Referral Scheme for all employees, worth by to £200 per referral made

What is the RNN Group?

RNN Group’s main goal is to be an ‘outstanding’ education and training provider and this is at the heart of everything that we do. To help us achieve this we are looking to recruit highly motivated and innovative individuals to join our existing teams. To be a part of the team at RNN Group we will expect you to be committed to our values too;

• We are Inclusive,
• We have Integrity,
• We Deliver,
• We are One Team.

We are OFSTED ‘Good’ (November 2022)

We celebrate diversity and are proud to have been recognised as Investors in Diversity for our commitment to the FREDIE (Fairness, Respect, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement) Model. This means that you’d be working in a supportive environment that encourages, recognises and celebrates effort, achievement and cooperative attitudes. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, faith or disability. We are also proud to be part of the Disability Confidence Scheme.

The RNN Group is proud to be part of the South Yorkshire Institute of Technology (SYIoT).

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, vulnerable adults and young people. All new employees will be required undertake a DBS check and other associated checks in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education Guidance.

All candidates must have the legal right to work in the UK.

Closing date: Monday, 29 July 2024 at 12:00 Noon - if you are shortlisted for this post you will be contacted within a week of the closing date.

Provisional Interview Date: 08 August 2024

If you require further information about this vacancy please contact the HR department on 01709 722750 or recruitment@rnngroup.ac.uk

For further information about the role please apply via the link.