The Vacancy
We are looking to appoint a talented and dedicated professional to this key role in the higher education team at Newcastle College University Centre and across NCG.
NCG is a large national college group with HE delivery at Newcastle College University Centre, Carlisle College, and Kidderminster College. NCG also offers collaborative partnerships to award degree programmes at other providers. This post will be based at the Newcastle College University Centre campus in Newcastle upon Tyne.
NCG currently has over 2,500 full and part-time students studying at HE level, across an exciting range of subjects and qualifications including Masters, Honours and Foundation Degrees.
This is an excellent opportunity to manage and co-ordinate NCG’s HE quality assurance and enhancement processes and procedures. The successful candidate will join NCG at an exciting time as we implement our HE Strategy to grow and develop high quality HE provision. At NCG you will work collaboratively to co-create a HE experience that is distinctive to the needs of the community it serves, while having qualities of transformative, highly vocational study and a curriculum of compassion.
The successful candidate will be highly motivated and have a HE background together with experience of promoting best practice in learning, teaching and assessment.
Specific responsibilities will include:
leading on and managing HE quality assurance and enhancement processes and procedures,
monitoring programme performance against baselines, including data analysis,
providing advice and guidance to curriculum staff to promote high quality programmes and an outstanding student experience,
developing and delivering training and development to staff of NCG awards.
Should you consider yourself to have the skills and attributes for this role, we would be delighted to hear from you. For further details and to discuss the role in more detail, please contact Mark Clarkson Academic Registrar mark.clarkson@ncgrp.co.uk.
Interviews are expected to take place on Friday 30th August.
About Newcastle College
Newcastle College is a further and higher education college offering hundreds of vocational courses, apprenticeships and professional qualifications, alongside more than 70 degrees and higher technical qualifications, delivered through Newcastle College University Centre.
We consider Newcastle College to be at the heart of the North East; a welcoming, supportive, inclusive and safe place, where everybody can be themselves as part of our vibrant and diverse community.
We’re proud to be one of seven colleges that make up NCG, one of the country’s leading college groups and we’re a key part of providing education and training to learners, apprentices and employers across the UK. Newcastle College’s vision is to develop the skills and talents of our students to succeed in modern enterprise and make a positive contribution to the prosperity of our region.
Newcastle College benefits from passionate and talented colleagues, who form a community committed to supporting our students to develop their skills and talents and achieve their aspirations. By joining our team you’ll be part of an organisation that works in close partnership with employers and local industry to offer education and skills training that leads to real employment opportunities for our learners and makes strong local economic impact here in the North East. Whatever your role, you’ll have the chance to work collaboratively with colleagues across all seven NCG colleges and share expertise, innovate and accomplish real change for our learners.
Newcastle College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff to share this commitment.
At Newcastle College, our values are not just about what we do, but also about how we do things.
Our values underpin the culture and beliefs of our organisation, we expect all our staff to demonstrate behaviours in line with our core values.
1. Being both inclusive and diverse
2. Trusting and respecting our communities
3. Taking ownership whilst working collaboratively
4. Inspiring excellence and curiosity.
As part of the NCG Group, Newcastle College offers an excellent benefits package, including generous holiday entitlement, access to the Teachers’ pension scheme (for teaching posts) or Local Government pension scheme (non-teaching posts), company sick pay, a cycle to work scheme and much more.
NCG seeks to promote and maintain an equal, diverse, inclusive and supportive environment for work and study that assists all members of our communities to reach their full potential. We are committed to achieving a truly representative workforce and therefore welcome applications from across the national and regional communities that we work with and serve.
No agency applications will be accepted.
NCG reserve the right to close the vacancy early.
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