Our exceptional Apprenticeships and Business Development department are currently recruiting for a Curriculum Area Manager to oversee all operational matters within the Curriculum area. The role has a clear focus on curriculum development and delivery as well as performance management.
As a Curriculum Area Manager you will ensure that the curriculum meets the needs of students, the business and the community and that students receive an outstanding learning experience whilst ensuring quality, recruitment, staffing and financial targets are met.
Responsibilities include:
1. To be responsible for the planning and management of the performance of all courses in the Curriculum area. This includes but is not limited to:
- maximising student enrolment
- ensuring overall outstanding quality of the provision through quality interventions and support, staff appraisals, AWAMs and curriculum-related staff development;
- ensuring that targets and KPIs for attendance, retention, attainment, performance measures (including value-added), destinations and internal progression in all provisions, including English and Maths, are met;
- through regular review of curriculum delivery across the curriculum area, ensure optimisation of the curriculum plan and delivery;
- ensure curriculum area student satisfaction benchmarks are met each year;
- Ensure equality and diversity targets are embedded across the curriculum area.
- contributing to the self-assessment process at all levels
2. To be responsible for the performance, management and development of the curriculum area staff, including setting targets, monitoring KPIs, managing performance, attendance, recruitment, AWAMs, induction, appraisals and curriculum-related staff development.
3. To deputise for the Head of Department as appropriate.
4. To ensure full compliance first time with all College procedures and systems and report on these via KPIs. To ensure appropriate records, registers, staff and student timetables are maintained and available as required by internal management information systems and external audit regimes.
5. To liaise with the Head of Department to enable the curriculum area budget allocation to be deployed efficiently and effectively; provide course costings and information relating to resources, ensuring that a quality experience for students and appropriate working resources and development are in place for staff.