Assistant Principal - Young Provision

Position: Assistant Principal Opportunities - Young People Provision (Permanent)
Assistant Principal Opportunities – Young People Provision

Curriculum Delivery & Quality
Curriculum Strategy & Planning

Salary £61,591 - £71,401

The Sheffield College is a large, diverse and ambitious further education college committed to transforming lives through learning and meeting local skills needs. As part of our continued strategic growth, we are recruiting two Assistant Principals to join our Senior Leadership Team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our Young People provision.

These roles offer a unique opportunity for experienced senior leaders to drive excellence, strengthen curriculum leadership and contribute to an ambitious, future‑focused educational offer for thousands of young people.

About the Roles

Both Assistant Principals will report to the Vice Principal Curriculum (Young People) and line-manage Academy Directors. They will play a central role in ensuring our study programme offer is high-quality, coherent and responsive to learner, employer and sector needs.

Each post leads a distinct but interconnected area of curriculum leadership:

Assistant Principal:
Young People (Curriculum Delivery & Quality)

This role ensures high-quality, consistent curriculum delivery across academies, translating strategic expectations into effective, day‑to‑day practice. You will drive improvements in teaching, learning and assessment, ensure successful implementation of the Skills Guarantee, and raise outcomes, attendance and learner experience across the Young People provision.

Key Focus Areas

Leading high‑quality curriculum delivery across all Young People academies.
Ensuring all study programme elements—including Skills Guarantee requirements—are fully embedded.
Driving continuous improvement in teaching, learning, assessment and learner experience.
Using performance data to monitor delivery and secure timely intervention.
Coordinating delivery readiness: staffing, timetabling, induction and assessment planning.
Leading deep dives, observations, quality reviews and performance cycles.
Building leadership capacity across the Academy Director group.
Assistant Principal:
Young People (Curriculum Strategy & Planning)

This role shapes a coherent, future‑focused curriculum offer by leading curriculum alignment, qualification reform and strategic planning. You will strengthen curriculum pathways and progression routes, improve curriculum mapping and planning processes, and ensure the curriculum offer aligns to sector reforms and the Skills Guarantee.

Key Focus Areas

Leading qualification reform implementation and sector‑aligned curriculum development.
Coordinating curriculum planning, mapping and alignment across all academies.
Ensuring clear pathways, progression routes and coherent curriculum structures.
Using progression, destination and curriculum performance data to inform planning decisions.
Coordinating operational readiness for new or revised qualifications.
Strengthening curriculum design and planning through leadership of Academy Directors.
Ensuring strong alignment between curriculum design, delivery and learner experience.
Shared Leadership Responsibilities

Both roles will also:

Contribute to College strategic planning and SLT decision‑making.
Support inclusive, aspirational provision that enables all learners to achieve their potential.
Lead people management processes including performance, capability and line‑management of Academy Directors.
Participate in cross‑college projects, committees and strategic initiatives.
Support safeguarding, open days, enrolment, exams and the duty manager rota.
Role-model the College’s FREDIE+ values (Fairness, Respect, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, Engagement, Innovation).
About You

We are looking for senior curriculum leaders who bring:

Essential Experience

Significant experience in senior curriculum leadership within FE.
Proven ability to lead curriculum improvement, planning or delivery ong track record of improving quality, outcomes and learner experience.
Experience using data to analyse performance and drive improvement.
Experience line‑managing and developing leaders.
Strong track record as a teacher.
Qualifications

Degree-level qualification (or equivalent…