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Salary £44,817 per annum
Close date 15/09/2025
Are you looking for a new challenge and an opportunity to become an integral part of a brilliant education business making a real impact on the lives and opportunities of young people? This could be the role for you!
Blackburn College has nearly 700 people employed in a vast range of roles and feels more like a community than a workplace, and this sense of collaboration is just one of the benefits of working here.
Blackburn College ensures its students have the latest skills, knowledge, and experience to excel in these fast-paced sectors. This is a really exciting time to join the department as the College embarks on an ambitious investment programme providing state-of-the-art facilities and using low-carbon technologies. We ensure our students are work-ready and gain credible industry insight through our extensive enrichment and work experience programmes with leading players in the sector.
We believe that attending college is about more than achieving a qualification and aim to give all learners an opportunity to develop their full potential in a friendly and supportive environment. There has never been a better time to join us!
The Role
We are looking to appoint to the role of Curriculum Manager for English. As a member of the school management team, you will be responsible for leading and supporting the successful planning, implementation, and delivery of all aspects of the English curriculum. This position involves extensive knowledge and understanding of the curriculum and will require subject specialism to ensure the successful implementation of quality assurance and standards. The role will include operational management of staff and students to achieve the curriculum, school and college key performance indicators.
You will provide academic planning and operational support at curriculum level and have specific responsibility for developing and overseeing student progress and achievement practice, including supporting the Head of School Maths and English in staffing, timetabling, curriculum planning and sequencing, alongside quality assurance practices within the colleges Quality Cycle.
What we are looking for
Applications are invited from candidates who have an up-to-date knowledge and experience of the curriculum area. This must include understanding of curriculum structures, sequencing and quality assurance processes.
You must be qualified to degree level or have a relevant professional qualification at level 4 or above as well as a recognised teaching qualification at Level 4 or above. Successful experience of managing people is also desirable.
