Industries Curriculum Manager

Location: HMP Fosse Way, Leicestershire, LE18 4WS

Salary: £38,000 rising to £42,000 per annum (depending on experience) plus excellent benefits

Schedule: Full-Time (40 hours per week), Permanent

Ready to impact a better future? As an Industries Curriculum Manager in our HMP Fosse Way Education, Skills and Work team, you’ll lead the delivery of learner support services and curriculum operations within a purpose-built resettlement prison. You’ll help ensure learners receive the support, guidance, and opportunities they need to develop skills, gain qualifications, and prepare for successful reintegration into society. This is a role with real purpose. By helping to create impactful solutions that support education and employability, you’ll make a positive impact on communities and help individuals build a better future. Working alongside dedicated colleagues, you’ll contribute to an environment where growth, trust, innovation, care, and pride are at the heart of everything we do.

What you’ll do as an Industries Curriculum Manager

• Ensure the effective day-to-day operation of learner support services across multiple teaching and learning locations, working closely with curriculum leaders
• Monitor and review education and industries performance data, implementing improvements where required
• Support Ofsted and His Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) inspections, ensuring evidence and processes meet expected standards
• Lead and champion the learner journey from Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) through to successful completion
• Manage employee attendance, annual leave, performance reviews, recruitment activities, and mandatory training compliance within your area
• Drive quality standards, learner achievement, engagement, and continuous improvement across education provision

Does this sound like you? You’ll be a great fit for this role if you have…

• GCSE Grade 4 (or equivalent) or above in Maths and English Language
• A PGCE or Certificate in Education qualification
• Experience managing support systems and procedures within an education environment, ideally in a complex or challenging setting
• Experience leading and developing teams to achieve high standards of performance
• Knowledge of current education policies and their application within custodial or further education environments

Discover all you need to keep growing

• Holidays: Up to 25 days plus bank holidays
• Pension: Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
• Training and development: Over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships, mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression
• Health and wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, 30% off at Serco-managed leisure centres, and 24/7 access to a virtual GP service
• Discounts: Discounts across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel
• Charity: Paid volunteering day, tax‑free charitable giving through Payroll Giving Scheme, donate your pennies from your monthly pay to the Serco People Fund Charity
• Employee networks: Our networks support inclusion and connection by providing spaces for collaboration, learning, and belonging. They represent and empower all our colleagues including LGBTQIA+ employees, women, parents and carers, people with disabilities, veterans, and people from all cultural backgrounds.

About Serco

At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone. By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging. At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly Disability Confident Leader employers and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview. At Serco we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required).