Education Manager

1 month ago


Oakham Rutland, United Kingdom The Protocol Group Full time

As an Education Manager, your role will be to lead and manage the Prison Education Framework (PEF) and a staff group to maximise contract performance, deliver quality provision and exceed the expectations of partners and learners in line with the company ethos of ‘Improving Peoples Lives’.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Maximising contract performance by fully understanding contractual obligations and performance targets, delivering the agreed curriculum and meeting quality assurance targets.
  • Developing the curriculum in line with needs of the prison population, local labour market and employer.
  • Ensuring quality assurance and quality improvement processes and procedures are in place and that they develop and sustain a culture of continuous service improvement.
  • Agreeing and setting targets with staff members to ensure both financial and contractual obligations are met and exceeded.
  • Effectively planning and controlling income and expenditure to ensure a profitable business by maximising contract performance.
  • Ensuring that all contracts are run in accordance with external and internal procedures, e.g. achieving low risk external and internal audits and accurate and timely claims.
  • Recruiting, managing, developing and maintaining discipline of staff employed in the department.
  • Responsibility for health, safety and wellbeing of staff and learners, maintenance and security of the department in line with prison and company policy.
  • Adhering to Safeguarding policies.
  • Maintaining and developing positive internal and external partnerships. Attend meetings with local partners as required.
  • Promoting equality of opportunity for staff and learners in all activities.
  • Attendance at meetings, seminars and training sessions in pursuit of continuous personal development.
  • Identify development opportunities by sourcing and securing new leads in order to expand the income streams for the department.
  • PEF Education Managers need to remain flexible. Duties can vary at times dependent upon contractual and/or organisational requirements and location.
  • Contractual KPIs for success and performance to be met.
  • Prison based roles are 100% site based, with the expectation of prisoner face to face contact.

Person specification:

Education, training and qualifications:

  • Relevant first degree and/or professional qualification, teaching qualification.

Skills, knowledge and abilities:

  • The ability to demonstrate experience of successful curriculum development and change.
  • Persuasive and supportive leadership and staff management skills to successfully manage performance and develop an achievement-focused team of teaching staff.
  • Excellent communication skills and a creative and flexible approach towards achieving objectives and deadlines.
  • The ability to influence others and though a proactive style encourage innovation and problem solving through your team.
  • A commitment to equality of opportunity and an understanding of good practice in respect of Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety, Child Protection and Data Protection policies.
  • Ability to motivate and inspire a team.
  • Ability to expresses self clearly through a high level of written and oral Communication.
  • An awareness of, and involvement in, recent education and training initiatives and previous experience of interacting with disadvantaged groups (desirable)
  • Clear understanding of the OFSTED framework (EIF) with the ability to meet all standards.

Experience:

  • Experience of Quality Assurance.
  • Substantial teaching experience as well as evidence of continuous professional development.


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