Senior Quality Assurance Lead

2 weeks ago

Oldham, United Kingdom Oldham College Full time

**Salary**

£44,745 - £48,905

**Contractual hours**

37

**Basis**

Permanent

**Package**

Excellent Benefits

**Job category/type**

Academic

**Date posted**

10/09/2025

**Job reference**

2020OC1112

Oldham College is recruiting a Senior Quality Assurance Lead to play a key role in raising standards across Further Education, Higher Education and Apprenticeships. This is a great opportunity for an experienced quality professional who is passionate about education, teaching, learning and assessment, and who wants to make a real impact on student outcomes.

What you will do:
- Lead and manage a team of Quality Professionals- Carry out learning walks, classroom observations, internal audits and quality interventions- Monitor student satisfaction benchmarks and support curriculum leaders with data and reports- Produce clear reports with SMART targets to support improvement strategies- Liaise with awarding bodies, exam boards and professional organisations to ensure compliance- Drive equality, diversity and inclusion through quality assurance processes- Undertake training and CPD to maintain up-to-date knowledge in quality assurance and education

What we are looking for:
- Degree or Level 5 equivalent plus a recognised teaching qualification- Experience in Further Education, Higher Education or Apprenticeships- Strong understanding of quality assurance processes in education- Experience of report writing, data analysis, line management and classroom observation- Ability to lead, motivate and develop staff while meeting deadlines and maintaining high standards- Commitment to safeguarding, equality, diversity and inclusion

Interviews to be held week commencing 6th October 2025.

**Joining our Journey**:

- When you join our college, not only will you benefit from an annual reviewed salary but have access to numerous benefits and facilities:_
- Generous Pension Scheme
- Fantastic Staff Benefits and Rewards platform
- Very generous holiday entitlement
- Employee Assistance Scheme
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity provision
- Staff Development days/week (Jan, July, Aug)
- Free confidential counselling service
- Staff recognition awards
- Car Scheme
- Subsidised car parking
- On-site Day Nursery
- On-site hair and beauty salon

Oldham College is a great career choice for ambitious professionals. With one of the best apprenticeship programmes in the region, excellent 16-18 results and truly outstanding GCSE English results, we are already a high performer.

But we want to deliver much more than this. Our ambition is to be “The Best Place to Learn and Work” and we have a clear Strategic Plan which sets out what this means and what we will do to deliver it. We will keep on improving and innovating, and we are investing in new provision, new facilities, and new technology; including our state-of-the-art clinical simulation suite.

The role will require you to embed and work to the college’s values; working with Integrity, having Ambition to help our learners succeed and being Inclusive to learners and colleagues alike.

We understand that not everyone works to the same timetable, and offer a range of flexible working options, including flexible start and finish times, part-time, term-time only or hybrid options, where the role permits.

Oldham College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.

Further details including a Person Specification are included within the attached Job Description.

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