Assistant Principal - Curriculum, 37 hours per week

Assistant Principal – Curriculum

College: Darlington College

Location: Darlington, Durham

Contract Type : Permanent

Hours: Full Time

Salary: Competitive

Posted: 6th August 2024

Expires: 9th September 2024 11:59 PM

Start Date: As Soon As Possible

Job ID: 1438003

Job Reference: 24/25 01

Darlington College is a growing and highly successful college with over a 125 years’ history and a very strong reputation for high-quality education and training, serving the communities of Darlington, Durham, Tees Valley and North Yorkshire. We now seek an exceptional individual to join the college’s executive senior leadership team in the post of Assistant Principal – Curriculum.

The Role

The role will lead a team of curriculum managers across the breadth of the college, further developing the curriculum offer, responding to key local and national initiatives, enhancing the quality of provision, stakeholder satisfaction and college reputation. The successful applicant will join the college at an exciting time when we are about to enter into a new venture for adult learning within the town centre of Darlington. The role takes responsibility for achieving and continuing to grow learner numbers and funding values against targets for all types of provision across the curriculum.

The Person

The person we are looking for will be an experienced manager/senior manager who has successfully lead curriculum department(s), with a track record of demonstrable quality improvement and successful outcomes from Ofsted inspection and other audit processes. The person will also demonstrate achieving income targets across a wide range of provision. They must also have the skills, knowledge and behaviours to complement our existing executive senior leadership team.

Applicants will be required to make contact with HR at Darlington College, hr@darlington.ac.uk for an application form.

Safeguarding Statement:

Child protection is the responsibility of all staff. The College will therefore:

• Encourage and maintain an environment where students feel secure, are encouraged to talk, and are listened to
• Ensure students know that there are staff in the College whom they can approach if they are worried
• Include opportunities in the curriculum for students to develop the skills they need to recognise and stay safe from abuse
• All staff will be required to undertake appropriate safeguarding induction and training.