Salary and Location
£52,968 - £61,405 per annum.
Annual leave: 42 days, plus 8 bank holidays and closure days. Enhanced pension contributions scheme with SYPA.
About Us
The Sheffield College is a thriving further and higher education community, empowering around 13,000 learners each year to achieve their goals. Driven by our mission to transform lives through learning, we foster an inclusive environment – recognised through our 2026 Investors in Diversity Gold award and 3rd‑place ranking in the National Centre for Diversity’s 2025 Top 100 Most Inclusive UK Employers.
About The Role
We have high aspirations and standards for ourselves and our learners, and this role will be a key one in supporting the college’s mission to be consistently great and ensure our students get the qualifications and skills they need to go further in employment, careers, apprenticeships, further training, and university level courses.
This role will specifically support our ambitions to be a great place to learn. Responsible for ensuring excellent teaching, learning and assessment cross‑college, and engendering the positive use of technology across the curriculum.
Key Objectives
* Lead the implementation of the college’s improvement approaches related to teaching, learning and assessment.
* Lead the professional development of all teachers and delivery staff, ensuring excellence is the norm at the college.
* Lead and implement approaches and methods related to education technology, ensuring technology is harnessed and improves outcomes for all provision types.
* Contribute to sustained performance improvement across all provision types.
Main Responsibilities
* Provide visionary and creative leadership of teaching, learning and assessment across all college provision.
* Contribute to and support the implementation of the college’s approaches for teaching, learning and assessment.
* Develop approaches that foster an ethos of continuous improvement to ensure all students experience high quality teaching, learning and assessment.
* Be research‑focused and promote a culture of excellence and innovation in teaching, learning and assessment.
* Develop advanced teaching and learning practitioners ensuring their impact on teaching, learning and assessment and capitalising on ideas and innovation to further enhance practices.
* Support and advise on all matters regarding teaching, learning and the student experience to develop and maintain continuous improvement in quality of teaching, learning and assessment.
* Lead the recruitment and induction of new teachers, devising plans that utilise advanced practitioners to support new teachers.
* Oversee development and implementation of relevant policies, procedures and quality initiatives linked to teaching, learning and assessment.
* Integrate and promote the use of digital learning technologies in teaching, learning and assessment.
* Help develop a culture of support and appropriate learning environments that encourage staff and students to experiment with learning technology and establish new practices.
* Lead and manage the E‑Learning Team to use research‑informed decisions on technology‑enhanced learning to ensure cost‑effective deployment of new equipment and/or techniques.
* Undertake research that assists the drive to innovative teaching, learning and assessment practices.
* Undertake scholarly activities that achieve effective and continuous professional updating.
* Use relevant data analysis at Academy level to support and bring about improvements; provide regular management information to relevant parties.
* Work closely with the People Development Manager to plan, develop and implement initiatives for the continuing professional development of teachers and curriculum staff.
* Provide dynamic, visible and effective leadership and direction across the college, ensuring that a solutions‑focused and supportive culture of continuing professional development inspires, enables, empowers and motivates staff to achieve high standards of performance.
* Support in the business planning process, ensuring strategic plans for teacher development and innovation are planned in correspondence to the college’s business planning procedures, including supporting in the budgetary planning.
What We Can Offer You
As the successful candidate, you will be offered a salary of £52,968 - £61,405 per annum based upon a combination of the skills, knowledge and experience that you can bring to the role.
Our full benefits package includes:
* Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) administered by SYPA.
* Annual leave – 30 days (222 hours) + 8 bank holidays (59.2 hours) – includes a discretionary Christmas closure period.
* Health and wellbeing benefits.
* Employee assistance programme through Bupa.
* Occupational Health through PAM.
* Free eye tests for VDU users.
* Free parking available at the majority of our campuses.
* Hybrid and flexible working opportunities.
* Continuous professional development opportunities.
* A people‑focused working culture where you can grow and thrive.
Equal Opportunity
We are a Disability Confident employer and are committed to removing barriers for applicants with a disability during our recruitment process, upon appointment and as an employee. If you require any reasonable adjustments or support at any point throughout the process, contact jobs@sheffcol.ac.uk.
As part of our commitment through the Armed Forces Covenant, we pledge to support the Armed Forces Community.
We are an employer who is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students. Successful applicants will be required to have an enhanced DBS check and will be subject to safer recruiting procedures.
Closing Date
21st of June 2026.
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