Director of Essential Skills Adults

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Are you looking for a new exciting senior leadership opportunity? Are you proactive, creative and solution focused? If so, This role might be just the right fit for you.

Lambeth College is embarking on an ambitious journey towards a brand-new campus. Our vision for the future involves revitalising our Clapham campus to better serve our students and the wider community. This includes a phased approach, where our existing buildings will make way for a multi-million-pound modern structure designed to significantly enhance the learning experience.

Lambeth Gateway College is part of the unique London South Bank University Group - a family of education institutions including South Bank Colleges. We are ambitious in our Group vision to:

Transform lives, communities, business and society through applied education and insights

Job Purpose:

We are looking to recruit a Director of Essential Skills who will be responsible for the strategic leadership of our adult provision at Lambeth Gateway College and for the English, maths and Entry to Employment offer.

Our ideal candidate will be someone who has a strong track record of curriculum delivery, engaging with employers and other key stakeholders and will utilise this experience to enable us to become a centre of excellence.

As a member of the senior management team, you will be reporting to the Principal and contribute to the success of the organisation, its students, and employees.

To be successful in this role, you will need to have excellent interpersonal skills, and be able to motivate and inspire others with a focus on setting and maintaining high standards, supporting and developing staff with a proactive and positive approach.

You will also need sound specialist knowledge and previous teaching experience in one or more relevant curriculum area (English, maths or entry to employment) with a focus on curriculum innovation and curriculum development and planning.

Permanent - Full Time - 36 hours per week - All year round

Please note: The successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

Equality and inclusion are at the heart of everything we do. We want to seize every opportunity to build a truly diverse and inclusive workplace.

We work hard to ensure that we are making exciting opportunities available to all, and everyone feels valued, heard and respected so that we continue to build a high performance, high engagement culture.

Recruitment Process
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