This Assistant Principal role forms part of the Senior Leadership Team and reports to the Vice Principal Quality, Teaching, Learning, Assessment and Innovation. The postholder will line manage designated Heads of Quality Improvement and contribute to the strategic direction and operational effectiveness of quality across the college.
This role ensures high‑quality and consistent curriculum delivery across all provision types. The postholder will translate strategic expectations into effective practice, ensuring full implementation of quality initiatives, including strong compliance with awarding bodies and wider stakeholders.
Key Objectives
* Lead the implementation of the college's quality approaches, creating and maintaining a culture of continuous improvement focused on high expectations and achievement.
* Ensure consistent and high-quality curriculum delivery that meets and exceeds expected standards, achieving exceptional outcomes for students.
* Lead the effective implementation of regulatory compliance initiatives, ensuring the college meets and exceeds the expectations of all external stakeholders, including awarding bodies.
* Contribute to sustained performance improvement across all provision types.
Main Responsibilities
* Contribute to the Senior Leadership Team's common goals.
* Ensure a high-quality student experience that leads to outstanding achievement, progression and employability outcomes across all provision.
* Provide curriculum leadership that ensures provision is relevant, high-quality and responsive to learner and employer needs.
* Drive continuous improvement in teaching, learning and assessment across all provision types.
* Ensure inclusive provision that raises aspirations and supports all learners to achieve their full potential.
* Use data and performance intelligence to monitor quality, identify risks and secure timely improvement.
* Contribute to the Senior Leadership Team's strategic planning, decision-making and common goals.
* Line‑manage designated leaders, providing direction, support, challenge and performance oversight.
* Build leadership capacity through coaching, mentoring and modelling effective leadership practice.
* Deputise for the line manager where appropriate, representing the College and ensuring continuity of leadership.
Additional Responsibilities
* Lead the development and implementation of a quality strategy to drive improvement for all provision types across the College.
* Work with Assistant Principals and their Leadership Teams to implement clear strategies for ongoing and impactful quality reviews to support the achievement of college and curriculum area targets and objectives.
* Lead and implement processes that rapidly identify and support any areas of curriculum where outcomes are below targets, ensuring improvement is achieved at pace.
* Create, develop and maintain a culture of continuous improvement and excellence, promoting high expectations and ambitions, together with high achievement.
* Develop, maintain, manage and monitor college quality assurance and self-assessment processes and procedures, including consulting on and preparing the college SAR.
* Lead quality reviews and audits of curriculum/programme areas, key processes, etc., as required, making recommendations on action and improvement as appropriate.
* Provide commentary and analysis on performance‑related data, working closely with the Information Services team responsible for data and reporting; propose and follow‑up necessary action; monitor and report on progress towards achieving curriculum improvement priorities and targets.
* Develop and implement plans and preparations for inspection and external reviews, ensuring a high level of compliance with external stakeholders.
* Oversee and take responsibility for a range of the College's quality‑related policies (e.g., External and Internal Quality Assurance); ensure compliance with the requirements of awarding organisations and other regulatory bodies.
* Provide the best possible service to all customers (both internal and external) in line with college standards.
* Play a key role in the business planning process, ensuring strategic plans and initiatives are considered and planned in accordance with the college's business planning procedures, including budgetary planning.
Salary and Benefits
* Salary: £61,591 – £71,401 per annum, depending on skills, knowledge and experience.
* Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS) with a generous employer contribution.
* Annual leave: 30 days (222 hours) + 8 bank holidays (59.2 hours); discretionary Christmas closure period included.
* Health and wellbeing: Employee assistance programme through Bupa; occupational health through PAM.
* Free eye tests for VDU users.
* Free parking at the majority of campuses.
* Hybrid and flexible working opportunities.
* Continuous professional development opportunities.
* A people‑focused working culture that supports growth and thriving.
EEO, Armed Forces Covenant and Safeguarding
We are a Disability Confident employer committed to removing barriers for applicants with a disability. We adhere to the Recruitment Guidelines for Disabled Candidates and provide reasonable adjustments where required.
As part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant, we support the Armed Forces community, recognizing the value of personnel, veterans and military families.
We are fully 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.
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