Curriculum Manager - Creative Industries

Are you passionate about leading and developing educational excellence? We are looking for a highly motivated Curriculum Manager - Creative Industries to join our College, contributing to the strategic growth and student success within our dynamic Creative Industries department

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Job Details

As the Curriculum Manager, you will play a key role in aligning the department with our College’s Strategic Plan and Policies. Your leadership will ensure that students have access to a high-quality, career-focused learning experience, while also overseeing the management of Study Programmes, staff, quality, and assessment standards.

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Be a role model in maintaining a positive culture that embeds the College’s values and beliefs through highly effective communication processes, and ensures that learners and staff feel valued, safe, and supported.
  • Be a role model for outstanding employability skills and practices.
  • Represent the College positively and highly effectively in all dealings with external partners, parents, stakeholders, and agencies.
  • Demonstrate exemplary communication practices in line with the whole College communication plan and own responsibilities and accountabilities.
  • Ensure that individual staff and teams are supported to maximise their effectiveness through continuing professional development arising from highly effective appraisal processes.
  • Take responsibility for own continuing professional development as agreed in the appraisal process.
  •  Participate in rigorous self-assessment of all areas within scope of the post and raise standards through pro-active quality improvement that is data driven.
  • Implement Performance Management processes effectively as required.
  • To plan, develop and co-ordinate a range of courses in the Curriculum Area to ensure that the offer meets the needs of all learners and takes account of best practice and national developments so that students achieve their learning outcomes and progress to a positive destination, and this is to be in line with the College’s Strategic plan of Career Focused Learning.
  •  Continuously improve the quality of the Curriculum Area in line with Study Programme and/or adult provision requirements through ensuring timely compliance with the Quality Framework Structure e.g., assessment schedules and course review activities.
  • Work with the curriculum director of creatives industries, course leaders, progress coaches and support staff to ensure effective support for all students so that, tracking and monitoring target setting, and intervention processes are consistently implemented and meet the needs of all learners.
  • Contribute to strategies designed to improve the quality of Teaching, Learning & Assessment e.g. Learning walks, IQRs and progress reviews and support the development of innovative approaches to curriculum delivery.
  • Ensure the highest standard of course planning and resources (e.g. schemes of work, students CPD days, online resources and course materials).

Job Requirements:

  • Significant experience managing a similar service.
  • Demonstrated ability to evaluate and identify areas for improvement, with a track record of planning for excellence.
  • Degree qualified.
  • Teaching Qualification

The right candidate will have:

  • Relevant management qualification.
  • Experience of curriculum management within FE/Sixth Form College setting
  • Knowledge of current issues and future developments in FE and HE, relevant to the Curriculum Area
  • Successful of track record in improving the quality of standards and teaching and learning

Why choose us?

Our strategy is to create a Career Focused, Digital Learning environment, ensuring that the learner experience and our relationship within our community, local and regional employers, are at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to be selected as finalists for the AoC Beacon awards for effective use of digital Technology in FE. Providing a high achieving, focused learning environment allowing our students to achieve the grades they need for higher educations, or the skills and aptitude required to secure a suitable role in their chosen career. Our college is set in the leafy suburbs of Essex, with easy access to surrounding areas and amenities, we are based in a well-connected location both by road and rail.

What we offer:

  • A dedicated and friendly team of professionals who are keen to develop and learn
  • Excellent pension provision
  • Annual Staff Awards
  • CPD days - opportunities to grow and development through mentorship and coaching
  • Free onsite parking
  • Staff appreciation days
  • Eye care vouchers
  • Onsite Starbucks & Restaurant
  • Well-being days & activities
  • Electric Vehicle Scheme*
  • Discounted gym membership
  • Hybrid Working available
  • Fully immersive teaching rooms allow simultaneous online teaching at multiple locations
  • Free Employee Assistance Programme available 24/7, 365 days offering legal & financial advice, as well as general support & guidance

* subject to terms & conditions

This role is considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.  It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

Shortlisted candidates will be required to complete a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Self-declaration is subject to Ministry of Justice guidance on the disclosure of criminal records, further information can be found on GOV UK

USP College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, we therefore expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service, and any other checks that the role requires to ascertain suitability for working with children and/or vulnerable adults, which may include online searches.

We will hold and process any personal data, including sensitive (special category) personal data, relating to you in accordance with our legal obligations, in the manner set out in the Privacy Notice for staff and in accordance with our Data Protection Policy, which is set out on the College’s website, found here. You should familiarise yourself with our Data Protection Policy (and all other subsidiary policies to it) and comply with them at all times. Neither the Privacy Notice for Staff nor those policies form a part of your contract of employment.