Curriculum & Quality Consultant

FE Associates, the further education sector’s leading provider of interim leadership solutions, are looking to the future.  Each year our salaried team of consultants provide high-quality and specialist support at all levels of leadership to our college clients.

We are looking to expand our interim leadership team with specialists in curriculum and quality.  If you have experience at Head of Department, Director or Assistant Principal level in curriculum or quality, we would like to hear from you.

Typically a college will require an interim to address an urgent and challenging need. This may have been brought about by not being able to recruit to a permanent position, long term sickness or to provide additional capacity because of the operating position of organisation. Placements are typically of a duration between three and six months but can often run for a longer period than that.

Our employed interim consultants are required to work across the country.  This means that you are required to be away from home overnight and quite often this is for four or five nights a week. In the main, our clients require our consultants to be on site all week.  Therefore, the individuals we employ must be in a position to be away from home during the week for extended periods of time.

Who we are looking for

For this round of recruitment we are interested in people who have held the roles of Head of Department, Director or Assistant Principal in further education colleges. We may consider individuals from independent training providers but we will need to be confident that you have the skills and experience to be able to work in large FE colleges. We want people who have the following:

• Team leadership experience
• Quality and curriculum improvement experience
• Curriculum and business planning experience
• Recent Ofsted inspection experience
• Knowledge of core college operating systems and procedures
• Safeguarding trained
• Experience of working on short term challenging projects.

Our consultants tend to have around five years’ experience at this level, although we are more concerned about your skills and abilities.

Most importantly our consultants need to be client focused, problem solvers, solutions focused, flexible in attitude and approach, resilient, not afraid of challenge and putting in the necessary effort to get the job done.