HE Teaching and Excellence Lead NCG

The HE teaching and excellence lead will coordinate the delivery of NCG HE Teaching Learning and Assessment Strategy. You will be responsible for monitoring, developing and improving teaching, learning and assessment across the Higher Education section of NCG, as well as supporting the development of practice and standards across our partnership providers.

You will support the key strategic measures set out in the NCG’s HE Strategy, in addition to the TLA strategy and quality standards. The role-holder will work in partnership with faculty teams at various campuses including our partnership providers to ensure they plan and foster inspirational and inclusive teaching, learning, teaching and assessment practices to support positive outcomes for all students.

You will have a proven record of excellent teaching, learning and assessment practice from a Higher Education background and be an inspiring leader. You will ensure excellent teaching, learning and assessment, which stretches challenges and enables students to achieve their personal, educational and employment goals.

A key priority of the role will be to address educational inequalities and promote inclusive pedagogy, aligning this work to the values and the targets set out in our Access and Participation Plan. Evaluating and enhancing the quality of teaching, learning and assessment will be a central focus of this work. As such a commitment to data led enhancement will be important and this will feed into TEF enhancement projects.

Fostering effective relationships with all staff involved in teaching and supporting learning will be essential. The post holder will work with professional and academic teams across NCG as well as our partnership provision, ensuring that students’ academic experience and wider student support is well integrated and joined up. You will have a strong pedagogic scholarship/research profile which may include curriculum design and pedagogy and or Inclusive teaching and learning.

Innovation is a key element in working with vocational managers and teams across the multiple campuses as well as our partnership provision to ensure the delivery of high-quality teaching, learning and assessment, progress and outcomes for our students. The Head of TLA is expected to be proactive in promoting the College values with all stakeholders. As a manager within NCG all managers are required to promote, uphold and demonstrate through personal example, the NCG values and behaviours.

Please note that applications will be managed by our recruitment partner Imperial Recruitment Group.  By submitting your application for this role you confirm that you agree to us sharing this with Imperial Recruitment Group.

Newcastle College is a further and higher education college offering hundreds of vocational courses, apprenticeships and professional qualifications, alongside more than 70 degrees and higher technical qualifications, delivered through Newcastle College University Centre.

We consider Newcastle College to be at the heart of the North East; a welcoming, supportive, inclusive and safe place, where everybody can be themselves as part of our vibrant and diverse community.

We’re proud to be one of seven colleges that make up NCG, one of the country’s leading college groups and we’re a key part of providing education and training to learners, apprentices and employers across the UK.  Newcastle College’s vision is to develop the skills and talents of our students to succeed in modern enterprise and make a positive contribution to the prosperity of our region.

Newcastle College benefits from passionate and talented colleagues, who form a community committed to supporting our students to develop their skills and talents and achieve their aspirations. By joining our team you’ll be part of an organisation that works in close partnership with employers and local industry to offer education and skills training that leads to real employment opportunities for our learners and makes strong local economic impact here in the North East. Whatever your role, you’ll have the chance to work collaboratively with colleagues across all seven NCG colleges and share expertise, innovate and accomplish real change for our learners.

Newcastle College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff to share this commitment.

At Newcastle College, our values are not just about what we do, but also about how we do things.

Our values underpin the culture and beliefs of our organisation, we expect all our staff to demonstrate behaviours in line with our core values.

1. Being both inclusive and diverse

2. Trusting and respecting our communities

3. Taking ownership whilst working collaboratively

4. Inspiring excellence and curiosity.

As part of the NCG Group, Newcastle College offers an excellent benefits package, including generous holiday entitlement, access to the Teachers’ pension scheme (for teaching posts) or Local Government pension scheme (non-teaching posts), company sick pay, a cycle to work scheme and much more.

NCG seeks to promote and maintain an equal, diverse, inclusive and supportive environment for work and study that assists all members of our communities to reach their full potential. We are committed to achieving a truly representative workforce and therefore welcome applications from across the national and regional communities that we work with and serve.

To view Job Description, Person Specification and NCG Values Pack please click the document attachment at the bottom of this advert. No agency applications will be accepted.

NCG reserve the right to close the vacancy early.