We’re looking for an outstanding Director of Quality to shape and lead our College-wide approach to quality assurance and improvement. In this senior leadership role, you’ll set the direction for teaching, learning, and assessment, ensuring the College not only meets but exceeds regulatory expectations. If you’re ready to inspire staff, champion innovation, and make a lasting impact on the student experience, we’d love to hear from you.
We’re looking for an outstanding Director of Quality to shape and lead our College-wide approach to quality assurance and improvement. In this senior leadership role, you’ll set the direction for teaching, learning, and assessment, ensuring the College not only meets but exceeds regulatory expectations. If you’re ready to inspire staff, champion innovation, and make a lasting impact on the student experience, we’d love to hear from you.
We are seeking a visionary Director of Quality to provide strategic leadership across all aspects of quality assurance and continuous improvement at the College. This is a senior leadership role, central to driving our Quality Strategy and ensuring that outstanding teaching, learning, and assessment are embedded throughout the organisation.
The Director will lead on ensuring the College not only meets but exceeds the expectations of Ofsted and other regulatory bodies, while delivering sustainable improvements in the student experience and outcomes. Acting as a key advisor to senior leadership and governors, the Director will champion a whole-College approach to quality, inspire their team, and foster a culture of excellence and accountability.
In this role, you will:
We’re looking for someone who is:
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and dynamic leader who thrives on driving high standards and continuous improvement. You will be a confident communicator, able to engage staff at all levels, and have the credibility to represent the College with regulators and external bodies. With a strong grasp of compliance, quality assurance, and teaching excellence, you will bring strategic vision and the ability to deliver measurable impact.
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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.
* 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.