Programme Director - Engineering

About The Role

With a new £10 million state-of-the-art engineering facility, as well as a £500,000 investment in new engineering machinery across our group, it’s the perfect time to join the team.

Take a look at the 3D Tour of our workshop:

Ashford College EKC Group Engineering Workshops

As a Programme Director (aka Course Leaders) of Engineering, you’ll be predominantly teaching, with the expectation to support development of the curriculum area and develop a centre of excellence.

The role will involve teaching, supporting, and assessing students’ coursework.

You will plan a highly relevant and distinctive curriculum to meet the local/regional skills requirements and the needs of the student, in liaison with the department leadership team to support outstanding progression for students.

You will also lead and coordinate the delivery team so all students receive up-to-date course information during their time at college. You’ll create course/programme activities to support student understanding of the objectives, assessment schedules, and requirements in line with awarding body criteria, including the course handbook.

Alongside our priority of excellent student experience, we also focus on our employees. Here are just some of our benefits when working for the East Kent Colleges Group:

• Competitive salary and holiday entitlement
• Access to 100’s of online discounts via our Rewards Scheme (Inc. Restaurant, Grocery, Retail, Gym, Holidays)
• Access to cycle to work, car leasing, and tech purchasing schemes
• Generous pension scheme – 28% employer contribution
• Being part of a company with an Eco-Sustainability focus of being Net-Zero
• Time off for your child’s first day at school, moving home, and for interviews
• My 10 Days initiative – bid for up to 10 days off work to pursue voluntary work
• Being part of our Community Days and Annual Staff Celebration Day

About You

The ideal candidate will be highly organised, creative, and able to plan and teach engaging and innovative lessons with demonstrated interpersonal skills. Assessing and tracking student progress to further plan intervention will be a vital part of the role, ensuring all students develop the skills they need to succeed.

The successful candidate will be passionate about making a difference to the future careers of our students, providing academic leadership and guidance in this area and managing the curriculum delivery and accreditation. Teaching and vocational experience is essential, and leadership skills are desirable.

The successful candidate will deliver on Level 2, T Level, and HNC Engineering courses, covering a range of topics including mechanical engineering, robotics, CAD, and electronic engineering.

This is the ideal opportunity for a proven teacher or lecturer to progress their career to the next stage as you will oversee the curriculum provision from the beginning, building relationships with key stakeholders as well as delivering high-quality teaching, learning, and assessment.

We’re open to considering those who aren’t yet qualified teachers.

If you are interested in an informal chat about the role, or have any queries, please email us at .

Please note that there are two salary scale points for our Programme Director positions. All candidates will start at the introductory salary scale point unless certain criteria are met. Employees can move up the salary scale once you have worked as a Programme Director for our group for one entire academic year, subject to approval. Therefore, internal applicants may qualify for the higher salary scale, although should seek clarification.

About Us

Outstanding Ofsted Provider
East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group, illustrated in our ‘Strong’ skills grading by Ofsted.

Commitment to Safeguarding
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles.

As a designated establishment, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore have an obligation to carry out checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults. These checks include conviction/caution self-declaration, Enhanced DBS check, and obtaining sufficient referencing.

It is a criminal offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so.

If you are successful in being shortlisted for an interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process.

Commitment to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
East Kent Colleges Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of our communities. We are particularly keen to increase the diversity of our staff body and encourage applications from candidates where there is underrepresentation in our workforce.

We are proud to hold the Positive About Disability Award and are a Disability Confident Employer . This confirms our commitment to interviewing all applicants who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. With any successful candidate, we will explore any reasonable adjustments to a role due to health needs or disability.

Similarly, we have a commitment to Care Leavers (Care Covenant Pledge) and to current or previous Armed Forces personnel (Armed Forces Covenant Pledge) with a commitment to interview applicants who meet the position’s essential criteria and who have declared this on their application.

We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break.

We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.

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