Description Drive Quality Through Collaboration and Creativity The Service & Team: Cornwall Adult Education is evolving, and we’re seeking a Quality Lead who thrives on partnership, creativity, and collaborative improvement. Cornwall Adult Education is a key part of Cornwall Council’s offer to residents, providing high quality, accessible, and engaging learning opportunities for adults across the county. The service delivers both accredited and non-accredited programmes—from essential skills such as English, maths, and digital literacy to leisure, community learning, creative subjects, and pathways into further study or employment. Its mission is centred on helping adults gain the skills, confidence, and qualifications they need to progress in life and work, offering flexible, affordable provision in safe, welcoming environments. As a Council run provider within a newly devolved adult skills system, Cornwall Adult Education plays a vital role in meeting local priorities, supporting workforce development, and ensuring learners can access high quality education close to home. The service has a strong track record, including a ‘Good’ Ofsted rating in 2024. The Role: You will shape how quality is understood and delivered across diverse teams, working closely with colleagues to build a culture of excellence. If you enjoy co-designing solutions, leading positive change, and shaping a role as the service grows—this is a rare opportunity to do exactly that. As Quality Lead, you’ll play a pivotal leadership role in ensuring the Adult Education Service delivers outstanding learning experiences across Cornwall. You’ll lead the development and implementation of a robust, service wide quality assurance framework that meets Ofsted, funding body, and awarding organisation requirements. Working closely with the Adult Education Service Manager and the Data Team, you will drive a culture of continuous improvement through the effective use of data, internal audit, and strategic quality planning. You act as the Ofsted nominee, lead inspection readiness activity, and oversee compliance across all curriculum areas and subcontracted provision. You will also manage a team of quality professionals and collaborate with tutors, assessors, curriculum leads and operational teams to embed high-quality teaching, learning and assessment. Responsibilities include defining KPIs, quality metrics and cycles; leading on OTLA and RARPA processes; ensuring Matrix accreditation; benchmarking performance; and producing strategic quality reports for senior leaders and governance boards. This position will be subject to a basic criminal record disclosure check. Working Pattern: This is a full year-round position for 37 hours a week and is offered with hybrid working arrangements. What you’ll need to succeed: You are an experienced quality professional with strong technical expertise and a passion for improving learner outcomes. You bring: Strong knowledge of adult education quality frameworks, Ofsted requirements and awarding body standards. Confidence using data and performance systems to analyse trends and drive improvement. Experience leading quality assurance activity, including inspection readiness, internal audits and compliance. The ability to design and implement effective QA frameworks, KPIs and quality cycles. Strong analytical, communication and influencing skills, with the ability to provide constructive challenge. Experience supporting or managing quality teams and developing CPD for tutors and assessors. A collaborative, organised approach and a genuine commitment to delivering high quality learning for Cornwall’s communities. This is a key role for someone with deep knowledge of adult education quality assurance, strong analytical skills, excellent communication and leadership capabilities, and experience driving service wide improvement. Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert What you’ll get in return: Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met. Our core employee rewards and benefits include: a competitive salary. a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave. A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services. Additional Information: Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role The full role profile is attached here We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview. For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Liz Myhill, Cornwall Adult Education Service Manager, liz.myhill@cornwall.gov.uk, 07736 619057. Application Process Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process. Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application. Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.