0.8 Curriculum Leader

**0.8 Curriculum Leader - Hospitality and Catering**

**REF: CL0027-628**

**The role**:
The Curriculum Leader in Hospitality and Catering will be responsible for the delivery, co-ordination, quality, and development of a range of 16-18 full time courses, adult part time courses and apprenticeships from level 1 to level 3. They will also be responsible for the management of Clouds Restaurant to meet business targets.

**Responsible to**:
The postholder is responsible to the Curriculum Manager (CM) for Apprenticeships and Adult Provision.

**Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities**:
The responsibilities of the Curriculum Leader include, but are not confined to:
**1. Recruitment**

Liaise with Admissions to organise interviews

Work with course team, Learning Support and Safeguarding to interview and select students
Enrolment
Organise induction activities
Liaise with Student Records to organise issuing of registers

**2. Course Organisation and Management**

Liaise with the Curriculum Manager in drafting of course timetables
Identify course hours
Identify course team members
Chair course team meetings and produce minutes
Work with course team to produce Schemes of Learning and Course overview
Production of assessment schedules
Identification of additionalities
Validation of data
Identify resource requirements
Planning extra curricula activities
Organising parents’ evenings
Monitor with the CM health and safety issues
Liaise with catering supervisor - re food orders/kitchen management
Running, promotion and management of Clouds Restaurant.

**3. Quality**

Chair and manage the programme quality meetings
Produce and monitor any action plans
Monitor progress towards Charter Commitment
Work with Curriculum Manager to produce the Department Course Reviews and SAR
Maintenance of course port folio

Organising placements and liaison with placement team
Organise IV process and documentation
Chair course standardisation meetings and produce minutes
Liaise & organise all external verification sampling for appropriate awarding bodies
Meet with External Verifiers

**4. Assessment**

Production of assessment schedule

Liaison with exams to ensure all students are registered with the correct awarding body
Manage the assessment process.
Manage Pro monitor
Liaise with the Internal Verifier
Meet with External Verifiers

**5. Curriculum Development**

Work with the Curriculum Manager in the development of new courses
Inform the course team of changes and developments in their curriculum
Liaise with external agencies

**6. Promotion and Marketing**

Production and updating of course literature
Organising taster sessions
Attendance at promotional events
Promotion and marketing of Clouds Restaurant

Lecturer duties and responsibilities are wide ranging. They may include, but are not restricted to the following depending upon the emphasis in any given post:
1. Formal Scheduled Teaching.

2. Ancillary duties emanating from formal scheduled teaching. These include but are not limited to:
3. Management of Clouds Restaurant to deliver restaurant food service, events, business meetings and conferences.

4. Staff development work including the conduct and participation in staff appraisal and in-service training based on an assessment of individual service needs.

5. Timetabled enrolment/admissions/guidance/counselling activities.

6. Attendance at marketing events.

7. Invigilation.

8. Substitutions for absent colleagues.

9. Development and supervision of resource-based learning activities other than officially designated tutor-led activities located in a Learning Resource Centre.

10. One-to-one learner support/tutoring other than programmes which consist entirely of formal portfolio assessment and accreditation activities.

11. Work placement visits as appropriate.

12. Supervision of residentials over and above formal scheduled teaching delivered during residentials.

13. Scheduled activities/tasks associated with the College's Quality Assurance systems.

14. Research and consultancy.

15. Maintain up to date resources.

16. Development of new resources and population of the VLE.

17. Attend relevant staff development

18. Management and administration. This may include:
contributing to College administration or the administration of education and training programmes.

publicity and public relations.
participation in appropriate team and committee meetings and course management duties including the interviewing, induction, assessment and examination of students.

supervision and appraisal of other members of staff, administration and marketing activities, resource and financial management, quality management and external liaison.

preparing statistical returns including retention rates, examination results, student progress placement and destination.

participation in student monitoring and reporting and course review and evaluation procedures.

participation in quality assurance and control procedures.

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