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Curriculum Performance Lead: Animal Care and Plant Sciences/Horticulture
Location: Dearne Valley College, Rotherham
Salary: £43,672 a year + benefits
Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full time (37 hours each week, all year round)
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 Role
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.
Operational and 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 and Development: Lead the Performance Development Review (PDR) process for your team, setting clear targets and identifying continuing professional development (CPD) needs.
- Staff Induction and 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.
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Quality Assurance and 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.
Student Success and Inclusive Practice
- Teaching and 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.
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 departmental KPIs, regularly reporting progress to the Curriculum Manager regarding student recruitment, retention, and achievement.
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The Challenges You'll Thrive On
- 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.
You Will...
- Be an experienced lecturer, or course leader within the area of Animal Care and Land Based provision, with a proven track record of excellent educational outcomes with strong knowledge of curriculum intent, quality assurance processes, and data tracking within Further Education, Adult and Apprentices.
- Be an empathetic, coaching-focused leader capable of motivating staff and building confident, independent learners.
- Hold a Level 2 (or equivalent) qualification in English and Maths (or
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