Centre Principal - Macclesfield College : Job Details

We are seeking a Centre Principal to join us in the New Year! Start your 2025 with us to inspire and shape the future of our students where you can make a lasting impact at Macclesfield College The Role As Centre Principal, you will ensure there is a responsive, engaging and high-quality curriculum provision that provides progression routes to further study and employment through innovative, engaging and outstanding delivery. You will be responsible for the achievement of the centre business plan in relation to curriculum, student recruitment, quality assurance, finance, people and corporate services. Main Duties of the role (please see CV for full list)

• Planning and Curriculum Development:
  • Responsible for maintaining and developing innovative and challenging curriculum using up-to-date course design strategies.
  • Developing teaching, assessment and learning practices to ensure sector leading learning experiences for all learners.  
  • Ensure the production of high-quality schemes of work across the curriculum area, monitoring their delivery and supervising assessment strategies.
  • Oversee the tracking and monitoring of learner progress and reporting.  
  • To co-ordinate the IV/EV requirements of the curriculum and to work with the teams in 
  • order to ensure awarding body criteria and expectations are met.
• Staff Management:
  • Undertake a strong and supportive line management function, including setting and monitoring of performance management, individual and team development and staff recruitment and retention in line with the College’s Human Resources Policies and Procedures.
  • Plan and chair regular curriculum area meetings ensuring that notes of the meeting are recorded and actions are recorded in SMART format. All team meetings should cover:
• Budget Management: 
  • Defining and delivering the departmental budget ensuring appropriate allocation of departmental resources to support academic programmes.
• Student Support and Experience: 
  • Overseeing admission and progression of students within the department and dealing with matters relating to their performance and conduct. 
• External Engagement: 
  • Building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders to ensure that academic programmes are aligned with workforce needs and local economic development.

Does Macclesfield College sound like the perfect working environment for you? For starters we offer the opportunity to work from home on a Friday to enhance your work life balance.Check out our benefits to find out more!Pre-employment Screening All posts are subject to standard pre-employment checks and you will be asked to provide;

• • Evidence of your right to work in the UK 
  • Proof of Identity
  • A minimum of two professional referees to cover a five-year period 
  • Health Declaration for any health conditions or disabilities for which you may need the College to make appropriate adjustments.

Please note that new guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education 2023 requires us to carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This is to enables us to identify any incidents or issues which have might want to explore at interview. Once shortlisting has taken place, this search will be carried out for all candidates who will attend an interview.Please note we reserve the right to close this role earlier if we receive sufficient applications for this post.REF-217 945