Deputy Director - Teaching, Learning and Assessment (Quality of Education)

About the Role

Luminate Education Group are delighted to be recruiting for a Deputy Director of Teaching, Learning and Assessment to join our outstanding Quality of Education Directorate. 

In this role, you will take a strategic and professional lead on all aspects of the Teaching, Learning and Assessment Strategy across the group, including digital innovation. 

We are looking for a candidate who will provide visionary and creative leadership, enabling high expectations and aspirations for our students and teachers. 

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is committed to supporting and developing high-quality teaching practice.

What You Will Do

• You will lead and manage teaching, learning, assessment and digital innovation to drive continuous improvement and raise learner outcomes. 
• You will promote high standards through professional development, digital skills advancement, and innovative practice, supporting both experienced staff and early career teachers. 
• You will provide strategic and operational leadership of TLA and the Digital Strategy, ensuring inspection readiness, effective CPD, and staff wellbeing. 
• The role also involves acting as an ambassador for TLA and digital skills, collaborating across departments, contributing to recruitment and induction, and representing the college internally and externally.

About You

• You will have a proven ability to lead and motivate staff, raising standards through a balance of vision, support, and professional challenge. 
• This role requires an individual who can actively develop innovative workstreams, champion the personalisation of the curriculum, and act as a highly visible, strategic ambassador for outstanding practice both internally and externally. 
• Experience with the Ofsted Further Education and Skills Inspection Toolkit and a commitment to embedding practices that support staff wellbeing are essential.

Benefits

The group offers a range of excellent benefits, including:

Annual leave: 
Curriculum and Management: 44 days plus bank holidays
Curriculum support and business support: 39 days plus bank holidays

Pension schemes with generous employer contributions:
Teachers’ Pension Scheme
Local Government Pension Scheme
People’s Pension Scheme

CPD opportunities:
Annual staff conference plus 2 additional staff development days.
Qualifications including PGCE, Apprenticeships, Leadership and Management courses.

Employee wellbeing initiatives: Family Friendly Policies, discounted onsite spa     (Printworks) and gym (Park Lane).

Travel and commuting: Discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus and Cycle to work schemes.

Flexible and hybrid working opportunities: Please speak to the recruiting manager regarding flexible opportunities as these differ between roles.

About Us

Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to people’s lives through genuinely transformative education and training.

We offer a wide range of job vacancies across our business support functions - Finance, Human Resources, ITSS, Marketing, Communications, Executive Support, Estates and Food Services. Our large size and diverse range of member organisations means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.

As an education provider, we are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our workforce, and you’ll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow.

Luminate Education Group consists of; Harrogate College, Keighley College, Leeds City College, Leeds Sixth Form College, Pudsey Sixth Form College, Leeds Conservatoire and University Centre Leeds.

SAFEGUARDING

At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks and must have two satisfactory references. Please be aware that it is a criminal offence to apply for this post if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.

EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in recruitment is key to our Group’s values. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that embraces equality, diversity and inclusion in all its forms, where every candidate is treated with fairness, respect, and equity. 

Our recruitment processes are designed to ensure equal opportunities, remove bias, and promote a diverse talent pool. To find out more about what our commitment to EDI means to us please Click here to learn more about our EDI objectives.

RECRUITMENT AGENCIES

We do not accept unsolicited CV’s and applications from agencies and will not be liable for any fee in connection with a candidate that has been submitted speculatively through any agency that has not been expressly instructed for a particular vacancy as part of our Preferred Supplier List.