Education Manager

Griston
1 week ago
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At AE Talent Solutions our mission is simple yet profound: to connect exceptional talent with exceptional opportunities. We are dedicated to empowering organizations with top-tier candidates and helping individuals achieve their career aspirations.

Our client is looking for an experienced Education Manager to lead their amazing team based on-site at HMP Wayland ,Thetford, in Norfolk.

As an Education Manager , your role will be to lead and manage the Prison Education Framework (PEF) and a staff group to maximise contract performance, deliver quality provision and exceed the expectations of partners and learners to help improve people’s lives.

Key responsibilities:

  • Education Managers maximise contract performance by fully understanding contractual obligations and performance targets, delivering the agreed curriculum and meeting quality assurance targets.

  • Education Managers Develop the curriculum in line with needs of the prison population, local labour market and employer.

  • Ensuring quality assurance and quality improvement processes and procedures are in place and that they develop and sustain a culture of continuous service improvement.

  • Agreeing and setting targets with staff members to ensure both financial and contractual obligations are met and exceeded.

  • Effectively planning and controlling income and expenditure to ensure a profitable business by maximising contract performance.

  • Ensuring that all contracts are run in accordance with external and internal procedures, e.g. achieving low risk external and internal audits and accurate and timely claims.

  • Recruiting, managing, developing, and maintaining discipline of staff employed in the department.

  • Responsibility for health, safety and wellbeing of staff and learners, maintenance, and security of the department in line with prison and company policy.

  • Adhering to Safeguarding policies.

  • Maintaining and developing positive internal and external partnerships. Attend meetings with local partners as required.

  • Promoting equality of opportunity for staff and learners in all activities.

  • Identify development opportunities by sourcing and securing new leads in order to expand the income streams for the department.

  • PEF Education Managers need to remain flexible. Duties can vary at times dependent upon contractual and/or organisational requirements and location

    Person Specification:

  • Relevant first degree and/or professional qualification, teaching qualification.

  • The ability to demonstrate experience of successful curriculum development and change.

  • Persuasive and supportive leadership and staff management skills to successfully manage performance and develop an achievement-focused team of teaching staff.

  • Excellent communication skills and a creative and flexible approach towards achieving objectives and deadlines.

  • The ability to influence others and though a proactive style encourages innovation and problem solving through your team.

  • A commitment to equality of opportunity and an understanding of good practice in respect of Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety, Child Protection and Data Protection policies.

    Company Benefits.

    30 days annual leave

    Cycle to Work scheme

    Access to hundreds of discounts via the Additions portal

    Employee Assistance Programme

    Access to online wellbeing centre

    Enhanced Wedding leave

    A paid volunteering day each year

    Enhanced Maternity scheme

    Refer a Friend reward scheme

    Holiday purchase scheme

    Pension scheme

    Life assurance

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