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 Thameside. 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