Curriculum and Performance Manager
£44250 inc car allowance Permanent Full Time
Manchester assigned to your local centre 3 days a week, 2 days remote with some national travel
Benefits include 37 hours per week Monday to Friday plus 34 days holidays (inc bank holidays) to start rising to 43 after year 5, support, CPD, induction, IT Kit, eye tests, Long serve rewards, wellbeing initiatives, birthday off, progression opportunities and much more
Our client are one of the largest providers of apprenticeships and work-based learning in the North West of England. One of the largest social enterprises in the UK, and all their profit is re-invested to help those they work with.
As the curriculum and performance manager you will have responsibility for the day to day delivery of the curriculum including management of learning coaches, ensuring implementation and effective operation of end to end learner journey processes, curriculum design and innovation, learner progression and quality of provision.
Key Accountabilities:
* Line management of learning coaches, ensuring caseloads / cohorts are in line with learner to staff ratio
* Conducting monthly performance management reviews based on learner experience and quality outcomes
* Ensuring effective CIAG, initial assessment and induction for all learners, to ensure learners are on the right programme and level, and where relevant have the range within the job role to achieve their chosen programme
* Closely scrutinise and monitor retention of learners, taking action in line with the retention strategy where learners are identified as at risk of leaving programme
* Develop and embed an innovative curriculum with supporting schemes of work and learning resources, ensuring these are evaluated continually and adjusted based on feedback that lead to achievement rates
* Hold quarterly standardisation meetings to ensure the intent, implementation and impact of the learner journey processes is consistent across the curriculum, and learning coaches have an opportunity to share good practice
* Co-ordinate and plan assessments, exams and EPA across the curriculum ensuring invigilation is organised and exams are conducted in line with the awarding organisations requirements
* Undertake monthly work scrutiny ensuring planning, delivery, marking, assessment and feedback, is timely and providing a high quality learning experience for learners
* Embed English maths and ICT/ digital skills delivery, across the curriculum ensuring learners are developing these skills throughout their programme
* Plan and timetable off the job delivery / classroom sessions across the curriculum
* Ensure Prevent, British Values, Safeguarding and EDI are embedded into delivery
* Ensure learners with identified special educational support needs receive the require the support to successfully complete their programme
* Instil a high performance culture in the team in line with the published company Values and Behaviours
* Deliver a quality and comprehensive induction to learning coaches
* Provide ongoing CPD in line with work scrutiny and QTLA outcomes - Awarding organisation support on EQA visits and conducting standardisation meetings
* Manage programmes in line with quality standards and funding rules
* Excellent leadership skills and ability to support the development of delivery teams
* Ability to multi-task and handle a fast paced work environment and support the Operations Manager with the recruitment process for the delivery team
Essential Hold or be willing to work towards Leadership, Management or Team Leading qualification - Hold or be willing to work towards Maths and English at L2 or equivalent
Desirable PGCE or teaching qualification Assessor award Vocational experience in one curriculum area of responsibility (L3)
To apply for the role of Curriculum and Performance Manager Manchester please email your cv to
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