Principal - Printworks - Leeds, United Kingdom - Leeds City College

Leeds City College

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Leeds, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

About the Role
A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join our Printworks campus as Principal.

Your role will be to provide strategic leadership for all aspects of the Printworks Campus (within Leeds City College) as well as the Luminate Education group and externally.

You will be expected to develop an increasingly distinct reputation and identity for the campus that becomes recognisable in the city and the region.

What You Will Do

Lead the Printworks campus to offer a responsive and effective curriculum that meets regional skills needs in an inspiring, inclusive and safe environment.
Develop a productive and purposeful culture that raises the expectations of students, the employers and communities of Leeds and leads to a highly successful and supportive learning environment.
Lead in ensuring consistently high expectations of students and staff across the Printworks Campus and the group and take the lead in the promotion and delivery of a positive, empowered staff culture.
Lead on the design and organisation of the curriculum at the Printworks campus with a particular focus on the development of excellent technical pathways, including apprenticeships.
Working closely with the group SLT, ensure that the Printworks campus curriculum is developed to meet regional, local and national priorities and provides progression pathways from foundation to higher education levels.
Ensure the effective marketing and external reputation of the campus. Develop and lead on comprehensive strategies, projects and initiatives that improve recruitment, income, efficiency, reputation and student experience at the Printworks campus and, as appropriate, across the group.
Develop and maintain excellent relationships with key Printworks Campus, Leeds City College and Luminate stakeholders, including employers in relevant industries and sectors, schools, universities, third sector organisations, local authorities and the combined authority.

About You

Recent successful experience of operating at a senior level in a post sixteen educational organisation and developing and leading highly effective teams to secure good, outstanding and/or improving outcomes as well as improving teaching, learning and assessment.
A recent track record of leading curriculum teams to successfully develop curriculum, which meets national and local priorities and student needs.
Excellent understanding of quality assurance and improvement strategies.
Strong knowledge and understanding of key markets, policy and funding in education and the impact on the college and local partners.
Ability to demonstrate performance management of staff and demonstrate improvements in results as a result of this management ensuring effective team working and accountability.
Demonstrable understanding of what is required to translate strategic planning into the delivery of the high quality education and training provision.
Experience of internal and external stakeholder engagement and development of key effective partnerships.

Interviews will be held on 10th June 2024
About Us

Leeds City College is one of the largest further education institutions in the country and is one of the biggest providers of apprenticeships regionally.

We provide a vibrant and diverse learning environment, delivering excellent and innovative education which is supportive, inspiring and life changing.

Leeds City College's values put students first and are at the heart of everything the college does.

We are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our staff.

You'll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow.

We offer a wide range of job vacancies, and our large size means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.

Join us on the journey to being the best that we can collectively be for our students, apprentices, staff and our stakeholders.

SAFEGUARDING

EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
We recognise, value and champion diversity & Inclusion.

As we engage with a diverse student population we want to ensure we reflect that in our staff population too.

For us diversity is about building happy teams, full of people that want to learn and be inspired by each other, by our different experiences and backgrounds.

It is important to us that both staff and students achieve their full potential. Diversity is important to us, but inclusion is equally, if not more important.

It's not just about having the representation but also providing the people we recruit with opportunities and valuing everyone's contributions and perspectives.

Benefits:

We have some great benefits

These include:
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Annual leave entitlement:

If you work full time, you'll get at least 27 days holiday plus bank holidays and up to 5 discretionary closure days at Christmas (pro rata for part time staff).
Support Staff 27 days (increasing to 32 days after 5 years service)
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