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Job Descrption

Curriculum Area Manager

Application Deadline: 30 April 2024

Department: Academic Management

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Harborne, Birmingham, UK

Reporting To: Assistant Principal of Teaching and Learning

Compensation: £41,728 - £44,276 / year

Description

To be Curriculum Area Managers (CAMs) with managerial
responsibility for the Recognising and Recording Progress and Achievement (RARPA) team of the EFA funded curriculum provision.

Working Pattern
37 Hours per week
5 Days a Week
52 weeks inclusive of annual leave entitlement

Queen Alexandra College (QAC) is a national residential College and registered
charity that supports a diverse range of student/client abilities and needs. Our
College provides education, training, and routes to independent living and
employment through an innovative, holistic approach to learning and support.
We welcome students who come to our College from all over the country – as well
as many who are local to us. All students, clients, and staff are supported within safe
and well-resourced environments. We have educational and learning sites based in
Birmingham, one of Europe’s most welcoming and vibrant cities, with a rich and
diverse culture. Our main site is based in Harborne, a pleasant leafy Birmingham
suburb, on a friendly and green 8-acre campus with excellent facilities and
resources.

QAC makes a positive difference to the lives and learning of people with disabilities
and learning difficulties. We have high expectations of staff, students, and clients
whilst being responsive, innovative, and collaborative. Our College values drive how
we work with students, clients, stakeholders, and as a team.

We continue to attract and retain staff of the highest calibre, who are proud of QAC’s
achievements and who wish to be an integral part of our ongoing and future
successes.

Key Responsibilities

Promote the aims and ethos of the College both within the teaching and
learning context and within the corporate life of the College.

• Manage the department and associated teaching staff.
• Be responsible for quality assurance in your department, ensuring high standards of provision throughout the curriculum, meeting student needs and aspirations and awarding body requirements, by acting as a lead IV.
• Lead and manage the production of your departments’ sections of the College Self Assessment Report, the Quality Improvement Plan, attend all EPRS and other related reports and action plans.
•  Carry out lesson observations, as a member of the lesson observation team, providing appropriate feedback and follow up, and assist in the coordination of peer lesson observations.
• Ensure that Schemes of Work, lesson plans, student target setting/monitoring, reviews and reports associated with your departments are appropriate, up to date and of a high standard and where appropriate ensure that all the internal verification requirements of your departments are met and that all internal verification in your departments is carried out on time and to a high standard.
• In association with the CAM for Functional Skills, promote the embedding of GCSE's and Functional skills within courses in your department, as appropriate.
• Coordinate the Student Council/ Student meetings and ensure that any issues are responded to effectively
• As required, ensure safety of staff and students is adhered to, by participating in 333 duties, to support staff and students with emergency incidents.
• To build high morale across staff and students and always lead by example with the QAC values of Enabling, Collaboration, Respect, Integrity, Excellent and Inclusion.
• Participate in staff training and development within the requirements of the College's programmes and priorities.
• Engage in any individual or collaborative research and consultative work agreed by senior management as relevant to the area of work.
• Contribute on an occasional and voluntary basis to the corporate life of the College, including reporting in a variety of forms to senior managers and governors.
• Perform such other duties as are commensurate with the status and nature of the post.

QAC complies with Safeguarding guidelines and all appointees are required to have DBS Check and two reference

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Please refer to the Person Specification attached to the Job Description.

How to apply

We look forward to receiving your application and knowing more about your qualifications, skills,
personal qualities and experience that you would bring to the role and to QAC. Please take time to
review the job description above.
Please upload a CV/Resume* with details of your full employment history (since leaving school,
including education, employment and voluntary work) including reasons for any gaps in
employment. This should also include a statement of the personal qualities and experience you
believe are relevant to your suitability for the post and how this meets the job description and
person specification requirements. Your CV/Resume* will be re-produced in a standard format by
the system (without personal identifiers) to assist us in our anonymised shortlisting process.
Under Section 7 of SVGA 2006 it is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from
engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. The College's Safeguarding Policies are
available here.
As part of our commitment to safer recruitment, and in line with updated guidance published in 
September 2022, we will carry out an online search of all shortlisted candidates. This search may 
enable us to identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and publicly available for review 
online, which we may wish to explore with you in further detail during the interview process. As part 
of your application we have asked you to provide the account names, usernames and/or handles for 
any social media platform that you use, as well as the names of any websites that you own, post on, 
or contribute to. A Google search will also be conducted. These checks will only be conducted if you 
are shortlisted for interview. Please see our safer recruitment and selection policy for further 
information.

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