Programme Leader- Travel and Tourism

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Join Oldham College as a Programme Leader – Travel and Tourism

Are you passionate about shaping the future of Travel and Tourism education? Ready to lead a high-performing team and drive curriculum excellence? Oldham College is seeking an ambitious and visionary Programme Leader to lead our Travel and Tourism provision within our dynamic Retail and Commercial Faculty.

About the Role

As Programme Leader, you will take the reins of our Travel and Tourism curriculum—providing strategic leadership, overseeing operational excellence, and ensuring our learners are prepared for exciting careers in a global industry.

You will:

• Lead and manage a team of dedicated tutors and support staff.
• Champion high-quality teaching, learning, and assessment.
• Oversee curriculum planning, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Build strong industry and community links to support growth and learner progression.
• Drive outreach, engagement, and learner recruitment activities.

This is your opportunity to make a tangible impact in a vibrant college that’s committed to success, innovation, and community transformation.

What You’ll Need:

• A recognised teaching qualification and relevant occupational qualifications (essential).
• Strong leadership skills with experience in managing Travel and Tourism education programmes.
• A deep understanding of curriculum development, learner needs, and industry expectations.
• A passion for innovation, learner achievement, and continuous improvement.
• An assessors/IQA qualification (desirable).

Ready to Lead the Journey?

Apply now and be part of a college that dares to do things differently. Inspire the next generation of travel professionals and make your mark with Oldham College.

Joining our Journey:

When you join our college, not only will you benefit from an annual reviewed salary but have access to numerous benefits and facilities:

• Fantastic Staff Benefits and Rewards platform
• Very generous holiday entitlement
• Employee Assistance Scheme
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity provision
• Free confidential counselling service
• Staff recognition awards
• Car Scheme
• Subsidised car parking
• On-site Day Nursery
• On-site hair and beauty salon

Oldham College is a great career choice for ambitious professionals. With one of the best apprenticeship programmes in the region, excellent 16-18 results and truly outstanding GCSE English results, we are already a high performer.

But we want to deliver much more than this. Our ambition is to be “The Best Place to Learn and Work” and we have a clear Strategic Plan which sets out what this means and what we will do to deliver it. We will keep on improving and innovating, and we are investing in new provision, new facilities, and new technology;

including our state-of-the-art clinical simulation suite.

We expect a lot from you, so we want ambitious, open minded candidates, who are ready to give their best. But we give a lot in return, from training to pensions, our own benefits package, and one of the best and most helpful group of colleagues you could ever wish to meet.

The role will require you to embed and work to the college’s values; working with Integrity, having Ambition to help our learners succeed and being Inclusive to learners and colleagues alike.

At Oldham College, our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We encourage everyone to join us, as we create a workforce that is as diverse as our wonderful student community. We do monitor responses to our diversity questions in our application, to ensure that we can continue to build a workforce that is representative of the community that we serve.

We understand that not everyone works to the same timetable, and offer a range of flexible working…