Contract Terms
* Starting salary: PO4 (£47,532 – £50,574)
* Work location: On-site – Wood Green Library, 187-197A High Rd, London N22 6XD
* Working hours: Full Time, 36 hours per week
* Contract type: FTC – 18 Months
* Closing date: Sunday, 10th May 2026
* Expected interview date: w/c 25th May 2026
About Haringey
Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.
Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.
About the Role
We are seeking a permanent, experienced ESOL Curriculum Manager to lead and manage the ESOL curriculum area, ensuring the delivery of high quality adult and community learning across Haringey Learns. The role has strategic and operational responsibility for developing and delivering an innovative, inclusive and quality assured ESOL curriculum that meets local need while contributing to Haringey Council priorities and regional and national funding requirements.
Working closely with the Principal, Quality Manager and management team, you will lead on curriculum planning, funding compliance, performance management and continuous quality improvement in line with the Education Inspection Framework. You will manage and develop a team of tutors, embed employability, digital skills and fundamental values across the offer, and support the service’s ambition to move from good to outstanding, including expanding community based delivery across the borough.
About the Team
Haringey Learns is the post 19 adult and community education provider for Haringey Council. We deliver predominantly from Wood Green but are actively working on taking adult education to the residents in the community. We are committed to play a key role in ensuring Haringey residents are offered high quality education which leads to good work and skills and is progressive, widens participation and fundamentally responds to local needs.
About You
You will be an experienced curriculum leader with significant expertise in ESOL provision within adult and community education or the FE sector, and a strong understanding of AEB funded delivery, funding compliance and performance management. You will bring a clear understanding of the Education Inspection Framework and quality assurance processes, alongside the ability to lead curriculum design that supports progression into employment, further learning and active citizenship.
You will be a confident and supportive manager with experience of leading teams through quality improvement, performance management, recruitment and professional development, and a strong commitment to safeguarding, Prevent and equality, diversity and inclusion. Creative, collaborative and solution focused, you will be motivated by widening participation and delivering a high quality ESOL offer that has a meaningful impact on the lives of Haringey residents.
Working for Haringey
At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.
Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money‑saving discounts.
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