Curriculum Performance Lead - Engineering and Electrical in Rotherham

Location: Rotherham College, Rotherham

Salary: £43,672 a year + benefits

Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full time (37 hours each week, all year-round)

Are you an experienced, high-performing lecturer or course leader ready to take your first step into operational leadership? Do you have a passion for driving academic excellence and inspiring both staff and students to reach their full potential? RNN Group is seeking a dynamic, passionate, and proactive Curriculum Performance Lead (CPL) to join our team. As a first-line leader, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our inclusive curriculum, ensuring our provision aligns with local, regional, and skills needs for a sustainable future. This position is ideal for someone with a robust understanding of quality assurance and curriculum planning who is eager to improve performance through coaching, clear accountability, and collaborative practice.

• Line Management: Provide clear direction, support, and professional challenge to lecturers, assessors, and technicians to drive high standards of performance and conduct.
• Performance & Development: Lead the Performance Development Review (PDR) process for your team, setting clear targets and identifying continuing professional development (CPD) needs.
• Staff Induction & Support: Provide personalised, structured induction and mentoring for new and developing staff to build team capability and confidence.
• Resource Planning: Efficiently manage staffing allocation, contribute to timetable development, and oversee delegated physical resources and budgets.

• Academic Rigour: Lead the local self-assessment process (SAR), manage Internal Quality Assessment/Moderation (IQA/EQA), and ensure absolute compliance with external awarding bodies.
• Quality Improvement: Conduct learning walks in collaboration with the Quality Team to continuously improve the classroom and training experience.
• Data Integrity: Manage student data tightly—ensuring highly accurate and timely registers, tracking enrolment, and monitoring exam claims alongside the MIS team.

• Teaching & Tutoring: Deliver high-quality teaching, planning, and assessment across a range of programmes tailored to your qualifications, while acting as a group tutor.
• Early Intervention: Constantly track student attendance, punctuality, and progress, implementing early intervention strategies to tackle underperformance.
• Inclusive Curriculum: Work collaboratively to eliminate barriers to education, ensuring students with Educational Health and Care Plans (EHCP) or those facing social exclusion receive preventative, tailored support.
• Employability & Recruitment: Engage with employers, schools, and parents to secure real-world projects, placements, and guest speakers, while recruiting the "Right Students to the Right Course."

• Foster a department-wide culture of high expectations, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Use empowering coaching techniques to support the mental health, well-being, life skills, and self-reliance of both staff and students.
• Ensure full institutional compliance with regulatory bodies, with a strong focus on Keeping Children Safe in Education and the Prevent Duty.
• Meet or exceed departmental KPIs, regularly reporting progress to the Curriculum Manager regarding student recruitment, retention, and achievement.

You will…

• An experienced lecturer or course leader within the area of engineering and/or electrical installations, with a proven track record of excellent educational outcomes, strong knowledge of curriculum intent, quality assurance processes, and data tracking within Further Education, Adult and Apprentices.
• An empathetic, coaching-focused leader capable of motivating staff and building confident, independent learners.
• A collaborative professional ready to work cross-campus and participate in cross-college project working groups.
• A holder of a Level 2 (or equivalent) qualification in English and Maths (or willing to undertake), a recognised teaching qualification at Level 5 or higher, and a professionally relevant qualification at Level 3 within Electrical Installations/Electrical Inspection and Testing, or a Level 3 in Advanced Manufacturing Engineering/Fabrication and Welding.
• An assessor’s award (A1/CAVA) will be advantageous. Holding an IQA or willingness to undertake would be advantageous.

We understand that no candidate will perfectly match every qualification or criterion listed. If your experience differs from what we've outlined but you believe you can contribute to this role, we encourage you to apply!