Head of Faculty

**Head of Faculty - Land Based Studies**

**Permanent, Full Time 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year**

**Salary: £38,936 - £54,298 per annum (Head of Faculty Grade 1-12) (Salary Grade dependant on skills, qualifications & experience)**

**Campus: Lackham, Wiltshire with cross college travel**

**About the role**

At an exciting time for Wiltshire College & University Centre, we are looking for a dynamic, creative, and inspiring Head of Faculty - Land Based Studies, to lead the faculty on the next stage of its journey. As a faculty with potential for future growth and development, the curriculum offer is already wide ranging and incorporates many different areas of land based industries including, Animal Care, Agriculture, Countryside Management, Equine, Horticulture and Land Based Engineering. The faculty has several high performing, highly desirable programmes from Entry Level to Level 5.

**About you**

You will be passionate about land based industries and the continuous improvement in teaching and learning and will play a crucial role in the evolution of our curriculum. With high expectations and aspirations for our students you will lead on curriculum innovation to continuously deliver programmes that meet the needs of students.

You will have experience of curriculum management and development with a proven track record of securing sustained improvements. You will also have experience of working collaboratively with peers to ensure a seamless student experience.

You will be:

- Passionate about staff and student success
- Driven to make the staff and student experience the best it can be
- Have the ability to motivate staff, solve problems and effectively manage performance to create high performing teams
- Be committed to ensuring the equity of aspiration for all student groups.

**About Us**

Wiltshire College & University Centre plays a vital role in Wiltshire’s economy, inspiring people to develop the skills they need to achieve. Our four campuses are learning hubs in their communities, and we aspire to be an outstanding, financially robust and commercially agile provider, achieving our clear social mission on behalf of leaners and employers across Wiltshire and beyond. Our turnover is around £38 million per annum, we employ some 650 staff, and support around 11,500 students.

Our benefits include a competitive salary and 30 days annual leave for Professional Services Staff, 37 days annual leave for Academic Staff and 35 days annual leave for management staff (plus bank holidays and additional closure days over the Christmas period). You will also be automatically enrolled into either the Teachers' Pension Scheme or Local Government Pension Scheme, have access to our employee assistance programme (EAP) and enjoy other benefits such as discounts with a wide variety of retailers and free car parking onsite.

**Closing date: 16/05/23**

**Interview date: TBC**

**Information**

At Wiltshire College & University Centre we value diversity, and we recognise that people with different backgrounds bring different perspectives, ideas, knowledge, and culture, and that this difference brings great strength. We are committed to the protection of young people and vulnerable adults and to safeguarding and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We are proudly accredited to the Disability Confident Employer award, part of this means a commitment to interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy and consider them on their abilities.

Please contact us with any queries.