Education Manager

At AE Talent Solutions our mission is simple yet profound: to connect exceptional talent with exceptional opportunities. We are dedicated to empowering organizations with top-tier candidates and helping individuals achieve their career aspirations.

Our client is looking for an experienced Education Manager to join their amazing team based on-site at HMP Bedford. As an Education Manager your role will be to lead and manage the Prison Education Framework (PEF) and a staff group to maximise contract performance, deliver quality provision and exceed the expectations of partners and learners in line with the company ethos and values.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maximising contract performance by fully understanding contractual obligations and performance targets, delivering the agreed curriculum and meeting quality assurance targets.
• Developing the curriculum in line with needs of the prison population, local labour market and employer.
• Ensuring quality assurance and quality improvement processes and procedures are in place and that they develop and sustain a culture of continuous service improvement.
• Agreeing and setting targets with staff members to ensure both financial and contractual obligations are met and exceeded.
• Effectively planning and controlling income and expenditure to ensure a profitable business by maximising contract performance.
• Ensuring that all contracts are run in accordance with external and internal procedures, e.g. achieving minimal risk external and internal audits and accurate and timely claims.
• Recruiting, managing, developing, and maintaining discipline of staff employed in the department.
• Responsibility for health, safety and wellbeing of staff and learners, maintenance, and security of the department in line with prison and company policy.
• Adhering to Safeguarding policies.
• Maintaining and developing positive internal and external partnerships.
• Attend meetings with local partners as required.
• Promoting equality of opportunity for staff and learners in all activities.
• Identify development opportunities by sourcing and securing new leads in order to expand the income streams for the department. and location.
• Contractual KPIs for success and performance to be met.

Requirements

• Relevant first degree and/or professional qualification, teaching qualification.
• An awareness of, and involvement in, recent education and training initiatives and previous experience of interacting with disadvantaged groups.
• Clear understanding of the OFSTED framework (EIF) with the ability to meet all standards.
• Substantial teaching experience as well as evidence of continuous professional development.
• Experience of Quality Assurance
• Ability to demonstrate experience of successful curriculum development and change.
• Persuasive and supportive leadership and staff management skills to successfully manage performance and develop an achievement-focused team of teaching staff.
• Excellent communication skills and a creative and flexible approach towards achieving objectives and deadlines.
• The ability to influence others and though an initiative-taking style encourage innovation and problem solving through your team.
• A commitment to equality of opportunity and an understanding of good practice in respect of Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety, Child Protection and Data Protection policies.
• Ability to motivate and inspire a team.