Curriculum Performance Lead - Digital

Curriculum Performance Lead – Digital
Hours;
Full time (37 hours each week, all year-round)
Duration;
Permanent
Salary; £43,672 a year + benefits
Location;
Rotherham College
Apply by: 23/11/2026
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 and Commercial.
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.
Operational & Team Leadership
 
* 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.
Quality Assurance & Curriculum Excellence
 
* 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.
Student Success & Inclusive Practice
 
* 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."
Key Role Objectives
 
* 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…