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The Growth Company’s Education and skills team have an exciting new opportunity for a Math and English IQA who will be accountable for effectively planning, communicating, implementing, tracking, managing and leading the curriculum and resource planning for English and Maths across GC Education and Skills.
As one of the largest providers of skills and training in the UK, we are dedicated to supporting businesses and individuals with apprenticeships, higher education and commercial training. We help people to develop their skills across a diverse range of sectors and levels, with our Ofsted Grade 2: Good provider status, and work with leading businesses to ensure our curriculum boosts the career prospects of individuals and productivity of businesses.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead in the development of English and Maths Curriculum
- Develop schemes and work and curriculum plans which deliver agreed targets
- Take part in the OTLA planning process to ensure English and Maths remain high priority and visibly measured for effective learning
- To lead on GSCE / FS awarding body arrangements
- Working with the Exams officer to ensure Exam Regulations (testing, invigilation and collation of results)
- To implement the English and Maths Strategy / Policy across GC Education and Skills
- Co-operate and collaborate with GC Education and Skills colleagues, in order to support the effective delivery of timely achievement
- To plan and prioritise changing needs for Maths and English across the business
- To ensure staff resources are effectively managed and developed, delivery plans are adhered to and they are held accountable for delivering successful outcomes for learners in English and Maths
- Matrix management to the FS delivery team – sharing best practice and standardisation
- Identify staff development needs to meet and exceed minimum professional requirements and to ensure efficient operational practice
- Incorporate the company’s health and safety and safeguarding arrangements for staff and customers in everything we do
- Management of Curriculum resources and aligned staff caseload management
- Support teams by reviewing and developing curriculum to ensure innovative and engaging delivery
- Quality assure teaching, training and assessment delivery to ensure English and Maths is embedded where appropriate and delivered to a high standard to promote learning
- Support all stakeholders to ensure high quality curriculum offer and outcomes
- Lead the implementation and development of all Maths and English digital learning materials
- Implement appropriate policies and procedures to ensure delivery meets all contractual requirements, compliance and quality indicators to reduce risk and maximise return.
- Implement self-assessment processes within the team(s) to inform QIPs
- Promote high quality, effective English and Maths teaching and learning within all areas
- To lead delivery staff on good practice in teaching English and Maths
About you
- Strong people management skills
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Clear focus on internal and external customers
- Takes responsibility for own workload
- Consultative but able to drive through improvements needed
- Ability to understand, demonstrate and apply GC values: Make a positive difference, stronger together, empower people, do the right thing, build on success
Skills Required
- Post 16 Teaching Qualification - PGCE
- Maths and/or English Subject Specialism (Level 5 specialist)
- Level 3 or above Maths and English qualification
- Train the trainer experience and flexibility to work across a multi-site operation and visit employer premises
- Experience of developing staff
- Communication and influencing skills
- Car driver and owner
- Barriers facing disengaged students and Maths and English engagement techniques
- Initial assessment of learning & development needs – aligning to staff resources
- Working knowledge of the Education Inspection Framework and Ofsted
- Credibility through a proven track record of success in changing culture to recognise the shift in delivering English and Maths that has led to good or outstanding outcomes for learners, exemplary delivery and motivating teams to achieve
Interviews will be held W/C 4 September 2023
If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply and to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check. This will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.
If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply and to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.
GC is committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from an ethnic community.
As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the recruiting manager and our Internal recruitment team.
We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box; this campaign aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We’re supporting the campaign by removing conviction questions at the applications stage.
GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.
Should you apply for any of our roles, we will be completing interviews virtually or face to face, dependent on the role. This will be explained further should you reach interview stage. We will be more than happy to explain the measures we have put in place, ahead of you attending any of our premises.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £17,555.82-£60,050.36 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- Referral programme
- Sabbatical
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Manchester, M1 5JW: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Manchester, M1 5JW
Reference ID: 3699
