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Main Tasks
- To act in a line management capacity for an allocation of delivery staff within the areas of HE Engineering and Professional Construction.
- To undertake a case load of teaching within the area. This role has reduced teaching hours (reviewed annually) to enable management duties to be effectively carried out.
- To oversee the delivery of Advanced and Higher-Level programmes which currently include:
-T Level in Professional Construction
-*HNC (HTQ) in Construction (from September 2025)
-*BSc Construction
-*HNC/Ds in Engineering
-*BSc Engineering
*All of the above HE courses are offered through both classroom-based and Apprenticeship routes - To provide academic leadership in respect of new course approvals and validations; quality assurance and to represent the area at HE Awards Boards
- To assist with managing staff and resources to ensure excellence in teaching, learning and assessment to ensure students make excellent progress and achieve positive destinations.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- To provide a lead on the quality of teaching, learning and assessment in the area, ensuring that best practice is developed and consistently applied, undertaking, and delivering continuing professional development sessions to teaching staff.
- To provide academic leadership for the relevant programme areas, in line with appropriate awarding organisation/validating university regulations and procedures
- To prepare staff timetables to ensure effective staff utilisation within the team.
- To liaise with timetabling to ensure registers and rooming are correct.
- To ensure adequate cover for staff sickness and monitor cover arrangements.
- To provide effective line management for directly reporting staff in the following areas:
-Communication, holding regular team meetings and individual check-ins
-Management of staff welfare and wellbeing.
-Engagement and resource - inspire and motivate staff including undertaking recruitment, induction and training, lesson observations, performance reviews, setting targets and agreeing development actions as required.
-Employee Relations matters inform line manager of any concerns with staff discipline, capability, absence, grievance, investigations, and any other employee relations activity as may be required.
-Financial Resilience - effective budget management in line with College financial regulations and procedures - To monitor student behaviour, disciplinaries and ensure the provision of appropriate pastoral support.
- To assist with managing the physical resources necessary to support curriculum delivery.
- To liaise with the Head of Area to ensure the effective deployment of both staff and non- staff resources.
- To assist the Head of Area with other duties such as:
-Promotion, marketing and recruitment to programmes;
-Liaison with employers and stakeholders to ensure the currency of curriculum and to ensure elements of co-delivery where possible;
-Curriculum quality to ensure the best possible student retention, achievement and progression;
-Providing support for the development of excellent practice in teaching staff as appropriate;
-Researching and advising on up-to-date teaching methods, modes of delivery and new curriculum initiatives and to deliver staff development sessions;
-Ensuring continuous improvement of curriculum offer and the implementation of new courses including full cost, and other new income streams;
-Contributing to specialist project teams as necessary within the area and across the College and to disseminate information from such work; - To attend the Colleges Higher Education Management Forum working closely with other HE colleagues to ensure the very best outcomes for learners, employers and external stakeholders.
- To be a member of the Engineering and Professional Construction Management group working closely with other managers in particular the Apprenticeship Manager, to ensure the very best outcomes and service for learners, employers and external stakeholders are provided.
- To develop and update personal professional expertise in the relevant areas.
- Adhere to and promote the Colleges values, and to ensure adherence to the Colleges Safeguarding, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, and Health and Safety policies and practices.
- To undertake any other associated duties determined by the college.
