Curriculum Performance Lead – Engineering and Electrical
Hours: Full time (37 hours each week, all year‑round)
Duration: Permanent
Salary: £43,672 a year + benefits
Location: Rotherham College, Rotherham
About the Role
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 national skills needs for a sustainable future.
Operational & Team Leadership
- Provide clear direction, support, and professional challenge to lecturers, assessors, and technicians to drive high standards of performance and conduct.
- Lead the Performance Development Review (PDR) process for your team, setting clear targets and identifying continuing professional development (CPD) needs.
- Provide personalised, structured induction and mentoring for new and developing staff to build team capability and confidence.
- Efficiently manage staffing allocation, contribute to timetable development, and oversee delegated physical resources and budgets.
Quality Assurance & Curriculum Excellence
- Lead the local self‑assessment process (SAR), manage Internal Quality Assessment/Moderation (IQA/EQA), and ensure absolute compliance with external awarding bodies.
- Conduct learning walks in collaboration with the Quality Team to continuously improve the classroom and training experience.
- Manage student data tightly—ensuring highly accurate and timely registers, tracking enrolment, and monitoring exam claims alongside the MIS team.
Student Success & Inclusive Practice
- Deliver high‑quality teaching, planning, and assessment across a range of programmes tailored to your qualifications, while acting as a group tutor.
- Constantly track student attendance, punctuality, and progress, implementing early intervention strategies to tackle underperformance.
- 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.
- Engage with employers, schools, and parents to secure real‑world projects, placements, and guest speakers, while recruiting the ‘Right Students to the Right Course.’
Key Role Objectives
- 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.
The Challenges You’ll Thrive On
- Remain positive and solution‑focused at all times, helping teaching and support staff overcome daily obstacles.
- Help students achieve their absolute best, regardless of the personal or educational challenges they face.
- Embrace and adapt to changing awarding body specifications and curriculum shifts with agility and support from your Curriculum Manager.
You will…
Be an experienced lecturer, or course leader within the area of engineering and / or electrical installations, with a proven track record of excellent educational outcomes with strong knowledge of curriculum intent, quality assurance processes, and data tracking within Further Education, Adult and Apprentices.
- Be an empathetic, coaching‑focused leader capable of motivating staff and building confident, independent learners.
- Be a collaborative professional ready to work cross‑campus and participate in cross‑college project working groups.
- Hold a Level 2 (or equivalent) qualification in English and Maths (or be willing to undertake), hold 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 the 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!
Department Info
Reporting to the Curriculum Manager, you will work alongside colleagues within the curriculum area and wider college departments. You will provide supervisory/first line management for lecturers, assessors and teaching assistants as directed by the Curriculum Manager.
Benefits
- Access to teachers pension scheme (with employer contributions to 23.68%)
- Up to 50 days annual leave per year including closures during Christmas period
- Access to our gyms, restaurants and salons
- Staff health & wellbeing and benefits schemes including in‑house Occupational Health service
- Extensive wellbeing support through a digital Wellbeing Hub that offers a broad range of support for physical, mental, and financial wellbeing.
- Full, part time and flexible working hours available in many roles
- Free parking available at all of our sites
- Fantastic career development opportunities including funding for teacher training, apprenticeships and various other industry recognised qualifications
- New FE teachers can also apply for grants of up to £6,000 in STEM subjects (conditions apply) through the teacher retention initiative
- Recruitment Referral Scheme for all employees, worth £200 per referral made
All new employees will be required to undertake a DBS check and other associated checks in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education Guidance.
All candidates must have the legal right to work in the UK.
The Group’s core operating hours are 8.30am-5.00pm (9pm on a Tuesday and Thursday during term time). You may be expected to work at any time during these hours to ensure business needs are met.
Closing date: Monday 22 June 2026 – if you are shortlisted for this post, you will be contacted within a week of the closing date
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