Curriculum Leader

**CURRICULUM LEADER - MOTOR VEHICLE**

**Ref: CL0040-605**

**The Appointment**:
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced and driven professional to lead the College’s
Motor Vehicle provision. The post holder will be responsible for a range of Motor Vehicle qualifications to full time 16-18 students and apprentices. Development of provision in
Electric and Hybrid Vehicles being part of the College vision and the post-holder will be expected to actively contribute to this evolution of the curriculum. The College has recently spent £200k on the redevelopment of our workshop space to encompass these new technologies.

The post holder will be dynamic and ambitious and be able to demonstrate strong team leadership. The post includes leadership of our L1-L3 study programme provision, apprenticeships and delivering vital courses to upskill local employers in our newly equipped workshop. They should possess minimum of a Level 3 qualification in a vocationally relevant discipline and a teaching qualification, have extensive related teaching experience in Motor
Vehicle and Transportation, effective interpersonal skills and outstanding organisational skills.

**Responsible to**:
The post holder will be responsible to the Curriculum Manager (Engineering, Core Skills and
HE)

**The Post**:
The responsibilities of the Curriculum Leader include, but are not confined to:
**1. Recruitment**
- Liaise with Student Services to organise interviews.
- Work with course team 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 (CM) 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 work.
- Production of assessment schedules.
- Identification of additionality.
- Validation of data.
- Identify resource requirements.
- Planning extra curricula activities.

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- Organising parents’ evenings.
- Monitor with the CM health and safety issues.

**3. Quality**
- Chair and manage the programme quality meetings.
- Produce and monitor any action plans.
- Monitor progress towards Charter Commitment.
- Work with CM to produce the Department Course Reviews and SAR.
- Maintenance of course portfolio.
- Organising placements (where appropriate).

**4. Assessment**
- Production of assessment schedule.
- Liaison with exams to ensure all students are registered with the correct awarding body.
- Manage the assessment process.
- Liaise with the Internal Verifier.
- Meet with External Verifiers (where appropriate).

**5. Curriculum Development**
- Work with the CM 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.

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

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

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5. Attendance at marketing events.

6. Invigilation.

7. Substitutions for absent colleagues.

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

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

10. Work placement visits.

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

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

13. Research and consultancy.

14. Maintain up to date resources.

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

16. Attend relevant staff development

17. 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 an