Director of Quality Improvement and Innovation

Salary and Location

£52,968 - £61,405 per annum.

Annual leave: 42 days, plus 8 bank holidays and closure days. Enhanced pension contributions scheme with SYPA.

The Sheffield College is a thriving further and higher education community, empowering around 13,000 learners each year to achieve their goals. Driven by our mission to transform lives through learning, we foster an inclusive environment – recognised through our 2026 Investors in Diversity Gold award and 3rd‑place ranking in the National Centre for Diversity’s 2025 Top 100 Most Inclusive UK Employers.

We have high aspirations and standards for ourselves and our learners, and this role will be a key one in supporting the college’s mission to be consistently great and ensure our students get the qualifications and skills they need to go further in employment, careers, apprenticeships, further training, and university level courses.

This role will specifically support our ambitions to be a great place to learn. Responsible for ensuring excellent teaching, learning and assessment cross‑college, and engendering the positive use of technology across the curriculum.

• Lead the implementation of the college’s improvement approaches related to teaching, learning and assessment.
• Lead the professional development of all teachers and delivery staff, ensuring excellence is the norm at the college.
• Lead and implement approaches and methods related to education technology, ensuring technology is harnessed and improves outcomes for all provision types.
• Contribute to sustained performance improvement across all provision types.

• Provide visionary and creative leadership of teaching, learning and assessment across all college provision.
• Contribute to and support the implementation of the college’s approaches for teaching, learning and assessment.
• Develop approaches that foster an ethos of continuous improvement to ensure all students experience high quality teaching, learning and assessment.
• Be research‑focused and promote a culture of excellence and innovation in teaching, learning and assessment.
• Develop advanced teaching and learning practitioners ensuring their impact on teaching, learning and assessment and capitalising on ideas and innovation to further enhance practices.
• Support and advise on all matters regarding teaching, learning and the student experience to develop and maintain continuous improvement in quality of teaching, learning and assessment.
• Lead the recruitment and induction of new teachers, devising plans that utilise advanced practitioners to support new teachers.
• Oversee development and implementation of relevant policies, procedures and quality initiatives linked to teaching, learning and assessment.
• Integrate and promote the use of digital learning technologies in teaching, learning and assessment.
• Help develop a culture of support and appropriate learning environments that encourage staff and students to experiment with learning technology and establish new practices.
• Lead and manage the E‑Learning Team to use research‑informed decisions on technology‑enhanced learning to ensure cost‑effective deployment of new equipment and/or techniques.
• Undertake research that assists the drive to innovative teaching, learning and assessment practices.
• Undertake scholarly activities that achieve effective and continuous professional updating.
• Use relevant data analysis at Academy level to support and bring about improvements; provide regular management information to relevant parties.
• Work closely with the People Development Manager to plan, develop and implement initiatives for the continuing professional development of teachers and curriculum staff.
• Provide dynamic, visible and effective leadership and direction across the college, ensuring that a solutions‑focused and supportive culture of continuing professional development inspires, enables, empowers and motivates staff to achieve high standards of performance.
• Support in the business planning process, ensuring strategic plans for teacher development and innovation are planned in correspondence to the college’s business planning procedures, including…