Programme Leader English - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Queen Alexandra College

Description

Programme Leader English

Application Deadline: 18 April 2024

Department: Teaching

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Harborne, Birmingham, UK

Reporting To: Assistant Principal of Teaching and Learning

Compensation: £37,831 / year

Description

Working Pattern: 36 hours / 48 weeks inclusive of Annual Entitlement

Job Purpose
The successful candidate will provide effective leadership and coordination of resources and staff for a range of programmes within the English Department. They will take part and contribute to the consistent delivery of high-quality teaching and learning across the curriculum area and take responsibility for the successful day-to-day operational running of the English department.
There will be a responsibility to review the provision and update as required ensuring it is in line with the College and department's strategic direction. The successful candidate will contribute to the monitoring of the quality of teaching and learning across the English department to achieve high standards and ensure consistency. *Please note that the interviews will be held on 23rd April 2024, included will be a Q&A and an In Tray Exercise.

Key Responsibilities

Team management responsibilities

Responsible for the day-to-day organisation (including appraisal) of specialist staff allocated to the programme area of English.

Promote excellence in teaching, learning, assessment and support through own practice and support the teaching team to achieve outstanding standards.
- Provide appropriate reports to senior staff and other relevant colleagues about the English provision

Ensure that equality of opportunity is fully reflected in all aspects of the work.
- Work with the relevant senior staff to provide effective leadership of a curriculum team including:

• Allocate duties, including timetables
• Create and maintain effective working relationships
• Enhance team performance
• Appraisals and regular 1:1 meetings
• Conduct team meetings

Curriculum planning/delivery

0.3 Contact Hours
- Undertake programme leadership responsibility including oversight of assessment, examinations processes, and Quality Assurance processes for the English department.

Ensure that the English curriculum area programmes are developed, designed, delivered and assessed in a relevant way and on a flexible basis to meet learner and employer needs.

Plan and deliver teaching/learning programmes using a flexible range of strategies, delivery, and assessment methods to maintain the high expectations of learners.

Monitor and evaluate the attendance, success and progression of students within the programme area of English.

Ensure effective liaison with Awarding Organisations, including identification of appropriate accreditation, exam entries and necessary actions arising from verifiers reports.

Coordinate regular programme/course review meetings with agreed schedules with agendas and minutes circulated and to promote collaborative working

Contribute to the monitoring of Key Performance Indicators and targets within the area

Support the direct line management and Assistant Principal for Teaching and Learning to maximise the cost effectiveness within the programme area.
- Ensure that effective curriculum planning and use of resources in the area meets the needs and demands of the college's strategic direction and financial imperatives.

Contribute to the Department SAR (Self-Assessment Report) and QIP (Quality Improvement Plan) as part of the Self-Assessment process.

Act as Lead IQA.
- Maintain and contribute to data sets for the English department

Cross college role/s

Create and maintain working relationships that promote effective and impactful cross-college communication

Contribute to the development of Cross College promotion activities e.g. open events, interviews, and taster sessions.

Participate in the development and marketing of the English department programmes and initiatives.

Maintain effective Quality Standards within the programme area ensuring compliance with Quality Assurance processes where appropriate including:

• Programme/course Self-Assessment
• New Course Approval
• Assessment Planning,
• Co-ordination of the IQA process,
• Maintain quality of Teaching, Learning, Support and Assessment by sharing good practice.

QAC complies with Safeguarding guidelines and all appointees are required to have a DBS Check and two references.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Essential
- Degree or equivalent professional qualifications.
- Level 5 Teaching Qualification (as a minimum)
- GCSE English and maths grade 4 or above (or equivalent)
- Level 3 in Subject Area (English)
- Evidence of continuing professional development and/or a track record in research.
- Enthusiasm, vision, drive, adaptability and resilience.
- Able to demonstrate a passionate approach to the student experience
- Able to lead by example in promoting the college's vision and holding high expectations of self, staff and learners.
- Able to use creativity and imagination to anticipate and solve problems.
- Ability to work under pressure and to prioritise workload
- A "can-do" approach focused on achievement and continuous improvement.
- Able to think strategically and work in collaboration with others towards strategic goals.
- Track record of planning for quality improvement, and the ability to respond to student quality issues
- Experience of managing the link between target setting, planning, quality and funding.
- Proven experience of analysing data and KPIs to improve quality and identify issues within the area
- Able to manage time effectively and prioritise work to achieve timescales at self/team and cross college level.
- Successfully achieving balance between work priorities and assuring own health & well-being.
- Personal resilience and ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment
- Proven experience of how to develop people to become excellent teachers/support providers.
- The ability to reflect and respond to performance in teaching and learning.
- Understand CPD needs and proactively addressing these.
- Proven experience using IT and data to support planning and forecasting activities
- Good understanding of current Government & national priorities for SEN, FE and skills agenda and impact on the curriculum area.

Desirable
- IQA qualification
- A track record of developing and delivering a high-quality provision.
- Experience of successfully managing changes to curriculum design and delivery.

How to apply

We look forward to receiving your application and knowing more about your qualifications, skills,
personal qualities and experience that you would bring to the role and to QAC. Please take time to
review the job description above.

Please upload a CV/Resume* with details of your full employment history (since leaving school,
including education, employment and voluntary work) including reasons for any gaps in
employment. This should also include a statement of the personal qualities and experience you
believe are relevant to your suitability for the post and how this meets the job description and
person specification requirements. Your CV/Resume* will be re-produced in a standard format by
the system (without personal identifiers) to assist us in our anonymised shortlisting process.
Under Section 7 of SVGA 2006 it is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from
engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. The College's Safeguarding Policies are
available here . As part of our commitment to safer recruitment, and in line with updated guidance published in
September 2022, we will carry out an online search of all shortlisted candidates. This search may
enable us to identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and publicly available for review
online, which we may wish to explore with you in further detail during the interview process. As part
of your application we have asked you to provide the account names, usernames and/or handles for
any social media platform that you use, as well as the names of any websites that you own, post on,
or contribute to. A Google search will also be conducted. These checks will only be conducted if you
are shortlisted for interview. Please see our safer recruitment and selection policy for further
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