We have a fantastic opportunity to join and lead our outstanding Quality Department as Head of Quality.
The Head of Quality will lead a committed and experienced team of quality professionals to deliver an outstanding service to Bradford College colleagues and external stakeholders.
They will have a particular focus on supporting the college in its journey to becoming an outstanding provider of technical, vocational and academic education and training.
This is an opportunity to lead a diverse department which manages academic quality and standards. The post-holder will be responsible for the delivery of ambitious performance indicators. They will lead their team to identify and address risk through established quality assurance processes and will support curriculum departments to mitigate risk and deliver an outstanding student experience. Most importantly, they will be able to identify and promote outstanding learning, teaching and assessment practices across all cohorts of students.
To achieve this, they will possess well-developed verbal and written communication skills, insightful and proactive analysis skills and an appetite for taking intelligent risks to drive continuous improvement.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

• Educated to Degree Level, or equivalent experience
• Evidence of continued professional development
• GCSE 4-9 (A*- C) or nationally recognised level 2 qualification in Maths and English or equivalent.

EXPERIENCE

• Experience in identifying and amplifying outstanding learning, teaching and assessment
• Experience of working with quality and regulatory frameworks
• Experience in higher education quality processes
• Experience of working with a wide range of people at different levels within an organisation, with evidence of having a positive impact on institutional culture
• Evidence of having developed and implemented system/process improvements
• Experience in staff management
  For an informal discussion about the role, please email recruit@bradfordcollege.ac.uk
  As a Disability Confident employer, where required, we will make reasonable adjustments to your interview to ensure you are given the best opportunity to succeed.
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  We reserve the right to close this vacancy early depending on the level of interest and number of applications, so early application is advised.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• The management of Further Education academic quality across 14-16, SEND, 16-18 and 19+ provision – ensuring that the curriculum is delivered in line with awarding organisation regulations and internal quality processes.
• The management of apprenticeship academic quality, working closely with the Apprenticeship department, to incorporate the accountability framework into core quality assurance processes.
• The management of Higher Education academic quality across Levels 4-7, working to ensure alignment with the expectations of our validating bodies, PSRBs and the Office for Students.
• To develop and deliver effective mechanisms for the assessment of quality across all aspects of Learning, Teaching and Assessment. To support curriculum managers in promoting a high-performing culture across their departments.
• To work with Heads of curriculum departments to embed a culture that leads to the early identification of risk, utilising a broad range of data resources and a robust framework for capturing quality improvement activity. As part of this cycle of activity to become an expert in the college’s performance review processes.
• To ensure that all curricula (across all areas of provision) are periodically reviewed, leading the department in developing and delivering effective self-assessment and monitoring activities which focus on data-led impact assessment.
• To manage departmental and college quality improvement plans, providing training and guidance to ensure SMART targets are proposed, monitored and achieved.
• Through expert guidance and effective monitoring activities, to drive college-wide understanding of the expectations of OFSTED and the Office for Students. To ensure that changes in regulatory landscapes are captured and disseminated to the department and wider college community.
• Work with the Senior Leadership Team to develop regulations, policies and procedures that support impactful quality assurance activity.
• To support the development and delivery of information, advice and guidance to the curriculum, including up-to-date resources, training programmes and the sharing of best practice. This guidance will cover existing and novel quality and governance requirements.
• To ensure all staff are fully able to apply the regulations of awarding organisations and to offer expert advice and guidance to colleagues to ensure the requirements of awarding organisations are met.
• To manage the external examining process and assessment board processes for higher education, ensuring compliance with OfS conditions of registration and awarding body requirements.
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