Curriculum Lead – Engineering and Electrical

Curriculum Performance Lead – Engineering and Electrical

Hours:

Full time (37 hours each week, all year‑round)

Duration:
Permanent

Salary: £43,672 a year + benefits

Location:

Rotherham College, Rotherham

Are you an experienced, high‑performing lecturer or course leader ready to take your first step into operational leadership? Do you have a passion for driving academic excellence and inspiring both staff and students to reach their full potential?

RNN Group is seeking a dynamic, passionate, and proactive Curriculum Performance Lead (CPL) to join our team. As a first‑line leader, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our inclusive curriculum, ensuring our provision aligns with local, regional, and national skills needs for a sustainable future.

The Curriculum Performance Lead is a dual‑element role combining operational leadership with a small teaching commitment (approximately 12 hours per week). You will lead a dedicated team of lecturers, assessors, and technicians across a variety of provisions—including Study Programmes (EPYP), Adult Learners, Higher Level Skills, Commercial, and Apprenticeships.

This position is ideal for someone with a robust understanding of quality assurance and curriculum planning who is eager to improve performance through coaching, clear accountability, and collaborative practice.

• Line Management:
  Provide clear direction, support, and professional challenge to lecturers, assessors, and technicians to drive high standards of performance and conduct.
• Performance & Development:
  Lead the Performance Development Review (PDR) process for your team, setting clear targets and identifying continuing professional development (CPD) needs.
• Staff Induction & Support:
  Provide personalised, structured induction and mentoring for new and developing staff to build team capability and confidence.
• Resource Planning:
  Efficiently manage staffing allocation, contribute to timetable development, and oversee delegated physical resources and budgets.

• Academic Rigour:
  Lead the local self‑assessment process (SAR), manage Internal Quality Assessment/Moderation (IQA/EQA), and ensure absolute compliance with external awarding bodies.
• Quality Improvement:
  Conduct learning walks in collaboration with the Quality Team to continuously improve the classroom and training experience.
• Data Integrity:
  Manage student data tightly—ensuring highly accurate and timely registers, tracking enrolment, and monitoring exam claims alongside the MIS team.

• Teaching & Tutoring:
  Deliver high‑quality teaching, planning, and assessment across a range of programmes tailored to your qualifications, while acting as a group tutor.
• Early Intervention:
  Constantly track student attendance, punctuality, and progress, implementing early intervention strategies to tackle underperformance.
• Inclusive Curriculum:
  Work collaboratively to eliminate barriers to education, ensuring students with Educational Health and Care Plans (EHCP) or those facing social exclusion receive preventative, tailored support.
• Employability & Recruitment:
  Engage with employers, schools, and parents to secure real‑world projects, placements, and guest speakers, while recruiting the "Right Students to the Right Course."

• Foster a department‑wide culture of high expectations, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Use empowering coaching techniques to support the mental health, well‑being, life skills, and self‑reliance of both staff and students.
• Ensure full institutional compliance with regulatory bodies, with a strong focus on Keeping Children Safe in Education and the Prevent Duty.
• Meet or exceed departmental KPIs, regularly reporting progress to the Curriculum Manager regarding student recruitment, retention, and achievement.

• Being a Role Model:
  Remaining positive and solution‑focused at all times, helping teaching and support staff overcome daily obstacles.
• Supporting Every Learner:
  Helping students achieve their absolute best, regardless of the personal or educational challenges they face.
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