Quality Officer in Oldham

Join Oldham College – where quality drives opportunity. Oldham Colleges is looking to appoint a Quality Officer for a full-time position with a salary of £33,835 - £36,082. At Oldham College, quality sits at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to delivering high-quality education and training that improves student experience, outcomes, and progression. To support this ambition, we are seeking a Quality Officer to play a key role in strengthening our Further Education quality assurance and improvement activity.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced quality professional to work across curriculum areas, supporting colleagues, embedding robust processes, and using data to drive continuous improvement.

The role

Working closely with the Senior Quality Assurance Lead, the Quality Officer will lead and support core Further and Vocational Education quality processes. The postholder will help ensure that a robust and effective system of quality assurance and improvement is in place, enabling the College to assess performance against key quality metrics.

The role involves supporting academic departments to understand and implement quality processes, providing guidance and expertise across the annual quality cycle, and contributing to the approval, review, and development of the Further Education portfolio. You will work collaboratively with Heads of Faculty, curriculum colleagues, and Advocates to analyse performance data, identify areas of risk, and propose practical improvement solutions that enhance learner outcomes and experiences.

This role requires excellent communication skills, strong organisational ability, and confidence in working with colleagues and stakeholders at all levels across the College.

Key responsibilities

• The Quality Officer will coordinate and support the preparation and delivery of core quality improvement processes and procedures relating to Further Education programmes.
• This includes overseeing data reporting and action tracking in preparation for quarterly performance reviews and supporting faculties to adhere to agreed quality processes within the academic activity cycle.
• You will monitor College performance using a range of quality indicators, including ProAchieve, and proactively raise areas of concern to the Senior Quality Assurance Lead.
• You will coordinate responses to awarding body reviews and audits, including external verifier and moderator activity, and ensure that any follow-up actions are effectively managed.
• You will contribute to the review and development of quality procedures, templates, and guidance documentation and support the smooth implementation of process changes through effective training and advice.
• You will also support internal verification and moderation activity, prepare analysis reports, and contribute to quality-related guidance circulated across the College and to partners where appropriate.

About you

You will have experience of working in a similar quality-focused role within Further Education and a strong understanding of curriculum delivery and awarding body requirements. You will be confident in using data to inform decision-making and quality improvement activity and will have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

You will be highly organised, proactive, and resilient, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders. You will be motivated by improving outcomes for learners and committed to supporting colleagues to deliver high-quality provision.

Joining our Journey:

When you join our college, not only will you benefit from an annual reviewed salary but have access to numerous benefits and facilities:

• Generous Pension Scheme
• Fantastic Staff Benefits and Rewards platform
• Very generous holiday entitlement
• Employee Assistance Scheme
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity provision
• Staff Development days/week (Jan, July, Aug)
• Free confidential counselling service
• Staff recognition awards
• Car Scheme
• Subsidised car parking
• On-site Day Nursery
• On-site hair and beauty salon

Oldham College is a great career choice for ambitious professionals. With one of the best apprenticeship programmes in the region, excellent 16-18 results and truly outstanding GCSE English results, we are already a high performer. But we want to deliver much more than this. Our ambition is to be "The Best Place to Learn and Work" and we have a clear Strategic Plan which sets out what this means and what we will do to deliver it. We will keep on improving and innovating, and we are investing in new provision, new facilities, and new technology; including our state-of-the-art clinical simulation suite.

We expect a lot from you, so we want ambitious, open-minded candidates, who are ready to give their best. But we give a lot in return, from training to pensions, our own benefits package, and one of the best and most helpful group of colleagues you could ever wish to meet.

The role will require you to embed and work to the college's values; working with Integrity, having Ambition to help our learners succeed and being Inclusive to learners and colleagues alike.

At Oldham College, our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We encourage everyone to join us, as we create a workforce that is as diverse as our wonderful student community. We do monitor responses to our diversity questions in our application, to ensure that we can continue to build a workforce that is representative of the community that we serve.

We understand that not everyone works to the same timetable, and offer a range of flexible working options, including flexible start and finish times, part-time, term-time only or hybrid options, where the role permits.

We will do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, contact our HR team who will be happy to advise.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable laws, a pre-employment screening could include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the role.

Oldham College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. Any appointments will be subject to enhanced DBS checks and a check of the DfE Barred List.

Further details including a Person Specification are included within the attached Job Description. This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation Act 1974. It is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children and vulnerable adults.