Director of English and Maths

Are you a passionate and experienced leader in English and Maths education? Do you thrive on driving quality improvement, developing innovative curriculum, and ensuring outstanding outcomes for learners? USP College is seeking a Director of English and Maths to lead our cross-college English and Maths provision and make a lasting impact on our students’ educational journeys.

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Job Details

As the Director of English and Maths, you will lead on the strategic and operational management of English and Maths across the college. You’ll oversee all aspects of curriculum planning, quality assurance, teaching and learning, and staff performance—ensuring our provision meets both student needs and national priorities.

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage all English and Maths provision across diverse learner groups.
  • Develop five-year strategic curriculum plans and oversee recruitment, progression, and performance KPIs.
  • Ensure compliance with Ofsted’s Education Inspection Framework.
  • Embed a culture of continuous improvement through performance management and CPD.
  • Collaborate with senior leaders, sector directors, and external partners to meet growth and quality targets.
  • Represent the College at key external meetings and drive community and employer engagement.

Job Requirements:

Essential:

  • A degree and full teaching qualification.
  • Significant curriculum management experience in English and Maths within Further Education.
  • Proven track record of improving teaching standards and learner outcomes.
  • Strong leadership, organisational and communication skills.
  • Experience in performance management and strategic planning.

Desirable:

  • Relevant postgraduate qualification.
  • Experience with Ofsted inspections.
  • Experience working with external partners and sector boards.

The right candidate will have:

  • Relevant postgraduate qualification.
  • Prior experience with Ofsted/ALI Inspections and partnerships with external stakeholders.
  • Knowledge of leadership strategies with a track record of promoting College values and behaviours.

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:

* 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.