SALARY: Up to £59,000 FTE per annum plus Pension
JOB TYPE: Permanent
HOURS: This post is a full time position, 37 hours per week
LOCATION: Stevenage Campus
About the Organisation:
North Hertfordshire College, part of Hart Learning Group operates across three main campuses in Stevenage and Hitchin and includes business operations Hart Learning and Development (our Employer and Apprenticeship arm). As a college, we have over 650 staff and a turnover of circa £30m.
About the Role:
We are thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity for an experienced and dynamic professional to join us as Head of Science and Digital. This is a unique and pivotal role at an incredibly exciting time for the College, as we embark on the launch of our new strategic plan. This plan sets a clear vision for our future and positions us at the forefront of educational excellence in the life sciences and digital technologies sectors.
The Head of Science and Digital will play a crucial role in shaping and leading our curriculum in these rapidly evolving fields. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact, not only within the College but also within our thriving local and regional community, with immense potential for collaboration with key partners and employers in life sciences and digital technologies.
As the sector continues to grow, we are committed to ensuring our students are equipped with the skills and knowledge required to thrive in the science and digital industries. Our strategic vision focuses on enhancing our partnerships, driving innovation, and ensuring our curriculum meets current and future industry standards, all while delivering an exceptional student experience.
If you are a passionate and experienced leader with a strong background in Science and Digital education and are ready to take on the challenge of driving forward our ambitions and strategic goals, we would love to hear from you. Join us at this exciting stage of our journey and help us shape the future of education in these vital sectors.
If you have the skills and attributes detailed in the person specification below and experience to deliver the duties outlined in the job description, we look forward to receiving your application.
Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities:
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Lead on curriculum design and development of the curriculum, ensuring that College activity is aligned to the delivery of strategic objectives
- Seek out opportunities for innovation and have the courage to take risks and make step changes to how things are done
- Empower others to put forward creative and innovative approaches and take appropriate risks
- Develop an ethos of high expectations of staff and students across all programmes.
- Drive and deliver a culture that emphasises continuous improvement, efficiency and value for money
- Lead on teaching, learning and assessment and aspects of developing pedagogy to drive standards of teaching and learning
- Be proactive in supporting teachers to create a stimulating and challenging learning environment which secures effective learning and provides high standards of achievement, behaviour and student motivation.
- Motivate and inspire the team to develop their own skills and behaviours
- Identify, nurture and lead talent effectively to help meet future strategic objectives
- Devise, lead and deliver whole staff professional development and training when necessary.
- To work with cross college Heads of Curriculum to maximise student progress in maths and English and support the raising of achievement in GCSE /Functional Skills English and GCSE maths.
- Support the Director of Curriculum and Deputy Principal in the monitoring of the quality of teaching and student progress, including the analysis of performance and progress data.
- Deliver against agreed student retention, attendance, success and value-added targets
- Work with colleagues across the college to deliver an overall student experience, which engages, inspires and prepares students for the world of work.
- Use customer insight to determine and drive customer service outcomes and quality throughout own work
- Implement an effective and efficient resource model to support the delivery of curriculum including for example; optimised timetabling; staff utilisation across the curriculum area of responsibility; and, in the use of learning technologies to support social and self-directed learning.
- Understand the financial position of own area, the organisation and the wider economy and recognise impacts of this when delivering services
- Provide comprehensive regular reports on budgets with accurate forecasting and identification of interventions to ensure budgets are met
- Lead a team of teaching staff; provide colleagues with inspiration, direction and support they need to deliver outstanding teaching and learning, whilst improving in their own roles.
- Create and encourage a culture of initiative, flexibility and responsiveness, mobilising your area of responsibility to respond swiftly to changing priorities
- With the support of quality and innovation colleagues, comply to the college’s systematic programme of quality assurance and improvement.
- Support the college’s Ofsted quality nominee to ensure accurate and robust information is provided, resulting in the best possible inspection outcome for the college and its students.
- Work with colleagues across the college to ensure we are providing necessary safeguarding support for students.
- Work with MIS colleagues to maintain accurate up to date learner records, whilst ensuring funding is maximised in each curriculum area of responsibility.
