Big Creative Education
Head of Curriculum – Visual Arts
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Full/part time: Full time, permanent position Salary: £48,000 to £52,980 depending on experience Start Date: ASAP (negotiable upon appointment) Reporting to: Director of Curriculum and Quality Location: Big Creative Academy, Clifton Avenue, E17 6HL Teaching: The post includes 10 hours of teaching per week within a Visual Arts discipline Annual leave: 35 days per annum
Company Description
Big Creative Education (BCE) is a specialist creative college in Walthamstow, London, supporting learners aged 16 to 19, and up to 24 for those with special educational needs. Established in 1999, BCE offers Level 1–3 courses and apprenticeships in music, media, gaming, events, fashion, film/TV, and performing arts. The college’s mission is to transform the lives of young people through inspirational teaching and strong links to the creative industries. BCE aims for all learners to develop their creativity and progress into careers in the UK’s fastest growing sector. Big Creative Education operates through two organisations: Big Creative Training and Big Creative Academy.
Role Description
The Head of Curriculum will be responsible for ensuring that the quality of the delivery is of the highest standard through the leadership, management and development of the curriculum provision within the designated Curriculum area and for the effective and efficient use of the available resources.
Principal Accountabilities
- To provide leadership and direction for learning and teaching and pastoral care of a Curriculum, to ensure provision of a high quality learner experience
- To provide effective leadership, ensuring consistent efficiency, effectiveness and quality of service to learners
- To act as first line manager for allocated staff, ensuring that staff are effectively managed, deployed and developed and that the Academy’s strategic and operational targets are achieved
- To lead the development and delivery of an innovative and visionary pastoral care process, ensuring that the tracking, monitoring and success rates of students is effectively managed, developed, reviewed and consistently improved
- To drive quality initiatives and ensure key performance indicators are met and consistently improved through writing the SAR and QIP.
- To ensure that all student progression is tracked and monitored, that needs are identified and supported by Student Services
- To contribute to the development and achievement of the Academy’s mainstream and commercial targets.
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Key Duties
- To ensure the efficient and effective management of a Curriculum area
- To manage and develop the online ILP process, students at risk process and disciplinary tracking in your curriculum areas
- To ensure that the Academy achieves the delivery of the course file and budgeted targets and achieve the Academy’s learning strategy objectives
- To manage the registrations and withdrawals of Art & Design and Media Students with Awarding Bodies
- To lead on the management of Initial and Diagnostic Assessments for learners.
- To lead on the tracking and monitoring of Gifted and Talented learners
- To provide outstanding teaching for 10 hours per week.
- To oversee the quality of teaching, and the embedding of core Art & Design and Media skills into vocational courses
- To develop and extend relationships with key stakeholders, employers, schools and universities to ensure that the curriculum delivery meets the economy’s changing needs
- To oversee the portfolio review and self-assessment and quality improvement activities, producing an end of year SAR and monitoring the QIP.
- To ensure the maximisation of learning platforms, in line with learning and technological developments
- To lead and direct quality improvement and enhancement processes and support the quality improvement and enhancement processes within the Academy.
- To support and ensure the operation of Academy quality procedures and standards in relation to quality of learning and teaching, learner retention, learner assessment, learner outcomes, value added and staff performance.
- To drive the process of self-assessment and quality improvement, and ensure that action points are addressed quickly and effectively to derive benefits for our students and staff.
- To participate in continuous professional development relevant to the role
- To identify the requirements of staff, in order to ensure a broad skill base amongst the workforce
- To promote the Academy vision and strategic direction both internally and externally
- To provide staff with a clear vision of their roles within the Academy, ensuring that they are aware of current issues and seek their views and involvement in the decision making process
- Report progress against targets on a regular basis to your line manager and advise on learner, staff, and learning activities
- To manage the experience of learners to ensure equality of opportunity and enrichment of lives
- To ensure effective quality control and continuous improvement in all aspects of the work and responsibilities attached to this post, in keeping with the Academy's quality assurance procedures and systems
- To comply with and promote the Academy’s safeguarding policies
- To undertake such other duties as are commensurate with the grade of the post, as may be reasonably required
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Line Management
- Staff management in accordance with the Academy’s strategic plan
- Ensuring full utilisation and effectiveness of staff
- Lead on recruitment for job vacancies
- Encourage innovation, entrepreneurship, flexibility and responsiveness among staff team
- Ensure unacceptable/marginal staff performance is addressed at the earliest opportunity
- Monitor application of key HR policies and procedures by managers and take a lead in implementing more formal processes
Learning and Teaching
- To provide outstanding teaching for 10 hours per week within a Visual Arts discipline
- Lead the Curriculum teaching team to ensure effective utilisation of staff’s time
- Ensure that CPD is both relevant and develops pedagogy to ensure outstanding practice in the classroom
- Support observation planning and development plans for staff.
- Support in the contribution to the annual academy SAR and QIP
- Support curriculum teams on curriculum review planning and updating the Academy QIP
- Look for external opportunities/projects to develop the Academies teaching and learning strategy.
- To identify the requirements of staff, in order to ensure a broad skill base amongst the workforce
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