Subject Lead PE and Project Qualifications - Manchester, United Kingdom - AQA

Description

Subject Lead - Physical Education and Project Qualifications

Permanent

Manchester: £45,500 - £52,000

Milton Keynes: £47,000 - £54.500

Hybrid with extensive travel

Are you looking to put your Education leadership, influence and PE subject matter expertise towards a real and tangible purpose in a charitable setting?

You are currently or have recently led a PE Team and taught the GCSE and A Level syllabus for PE and also supported EPQ/Project Qualifications?

If you are passionate about PE/Projects, this is an opportunity to join the biggest awarding body for GCSE and A Levels in the UK. Available due to increased investmentby AQA into understanding our customers better than anyone else.

Tangible influence is in your grasp for AQAs flagship subject as we grow and diversify our support and product offerings and contribute to Educational reform and subject level policy.

Landscape

As Subject Lead for PE and Project qualifications, you will form a pivotal role at AQA leading the delivery for the PE/Projectscurriculum strategy and ensuring that AQA is the go to board with our customers.

Subject support is focused on providing better support for all our customers.

You will liaise with a wide range of subject stakeholders across the UK and work closely with Product Management to provide invaluable insight about how the products are delivered in the classroom and what matters most to our customers.

Purpose

You will plan, lead and be accountable for delivering support to our customers on the PE and Projects curriculum.

You will influence and communicate with our teaching community to support enquiries around our specifications and assessments in an easy to understand and compelling way.

As an educational leader in your field you will understand teachers needs and pressures and feed this into the delivery and support materials and events you are responsible for.

What's in it for you?

Career

• Fantastic opportunity to take your assessment and curriculum knowledge from the classroom and lead the AQA PE subject support for teachers across the UK in the delivery of their GCSE and A Level courses, and Project Qualifications
• Travel around the country as the face of the subject for AQA and engaging with teachers on a face to face basis, with occasional overnight stays and regular weekly team days in the office and to share with like minded individuals.
• Lead and influence in your subject specialism and represent AQA at key external conferences and national events.

Personal

• A focus on personal and professional growth and development
• A company who focus on health, wellbeing and sustainability by enabling access to Private Medical Insurance, Electric Vehicle Leasing scheme and a Health Care Cash Reward Plan, Life Assurance and an employee assistance program
• A company who invest in your future with a really strong pension offer (up to 11.5% employer contributions)
• 25 days annual leave with bank holidays rising to 30 days with services and extra closure days at Christmas and access to volunteering leave.

What you will do as a Subject Lead - PE and Projects

• Lead subject support for PE and Project Qualifications to achieve goals, milestone and KPIs for the subject
• Be responsible for reactive and proactive customer focused activity.
• Enhance our customer service offering.
• Develop, consult and deliver key subject specific messages to internal and external stakeholders and customers (teachers).
• Use relevant systems to plan, monitor and deliver retention and market share growth activity at subject expert level.
• Engage with teachers in the field, using our support materials to enable their continuous improvement.
• Work with external bodies to include Ofqual and the DfE.

What you need to succeed? ?

• Experience of managing subject teams as a head of department or equivalent and teaching GCSE and/or A Level syllabus and Project qualifications within the last 2 years.
• PE expertise is essential.
• The ability to interpret data to inform decision making, monitor delivery and impact to customers.
• Matrix management skills to persuade and influence across a wide range of stakeholders at AQA.
• Ability to travel extensively with overnight stays on occasion.
• Confident and comfortable in communicating/presenting to teachers, parents and students in a clear and empathetic way, handling objections as they arise.
• Sound understanding of the assessment processes at GCSE, A-level PE and Project Qualifications along with a good understanding of the wider educational landscape.
• Ability to articulate key selling points of AQA's full offering effectively.

What next?

We have set a closing date of Monday 27th May, however we will be reviewing them from Monday May 20th 2024 . Interviews for this role will be held, where possible, Face to Face incorporating a one stage process with presentation.

Submit a CV and Cover letter for consideration.

Expected start date to be in line with teacher notice periods or before if appropriate.

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