Curriculum Performance Lead : Engineering and Electrical
Location: Rotherham College, Rotherham
Salary : A GBP 43,672 a year + benefits
Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full time (37 hours each week, all year:round)
Are you an experienced, high:performing lecturer or course leader ready to take your first step into operational leadership? Do you have a passion for driving academic excellence and inspiring both staff and students to reach their full potential?
RNN Group is seeking a dynamic, passionate, and proactive Curriculum Performance Lead (CPL) to join our team. As a first:line leader, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our inclusive curriculum, ensuring our provision aligns with local, regional, and national skills needs for a sustainable future.
This position is ideal for someone with a robust understanding of quality assurance and curriculum planning who is eager to improve performance through coaching, clear accountability, and collaborative practice.
Operational and Team Leadership
* Line Management: Provide clear direction, support, and professional challenge to lecturers, assessors, and technicians to drive high standards of performance and conduct.
* Performance and Development: Lead the Performance Development Review (PDR) process for your team, setting clear targets and identifying continuing professional development (CPD) needs.
* Staff Induction and Support: Provide personalised, structured induction and mentoring for new and developing staff to build team capability and confidence.
* Resource Planning: Efficiently manage staffing allocation, contribute to timetable development, and oversee delegated physical resources and budgets.
Quality Assurance and Curriculum Excellence
* Academic Rigour: Lead the local self:assessment process (SAR), manage Internal Quality Assessment/Moderation (IQA/EQA), and ensure absolute compliance with external awarding bodies.
* Quality Improvement: Conduct learning walks in collaboration with the Quality Team to continuously improve the classroom and training experience.
* Data Integrity: Manage student data tightly:ensuring highly accurate and timely registers, tracking enrolment, and monitoring exam claims alongside the MIS team.
Student Success and Inclusive Practice
* Teaching and Tutoring: Deliver high:quality teaching, planning, and assessment across a range of programmes tailored to your qualifications, while acting as a group tutor.
* Early Intervention: Constantly track student attendance, punctuality, and progress, implementing early intervention strategies to tackle underperformance.
* Inclusive Curriculum: Work collaboratively to eliminate barriers to education, ensuring students with Educational Health and Care Plans (EHCP) or those facing social exclusion receive preventative, tailored support.
* Employability and Recruitment: Engage with employers, schools, and parents to secure real:world projects, placements, and guest speakers, while recruiting the Right Students to the Right Course.
Key Role Objectives
* Foster a department:wide culture of high expectations, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
* Use empowering coaching techniques to support the mental health, well:being, life skills, and self:reliance of both staff and students.
* Ensure full institutional compliance with regulatory bodies, with a strong focus on Keeping Children Safe in Education and the Prevent Duty.
* Meet or exceed departmental KPIs, regularly reporting progress to the Curriculum Manager regarding student recruitment, retention, and achievement.
You will...
You will be an experienced lecturer, or course leader within the area of engineering and / or electrical installations, with a proven track record of excellent educational outcomes with strong knowledge of curriculum intent, quality assurance processes, and data tracking within Further Education, Adult and Apprentices.
You will be an empathetic, coaching:focused leader capable of motivatin