Programme Manager - A Levels (Study Programmes)

About the Role

Keighley College are seeking an A Level Programme Manager to join our Study Programmes department. 

You will provide leadership for the A Level provision, ensuring students receive an exceptional educational experience that enables them to achieve ambitious outcomes and progress to higher education, apprenticeships, or employment.

You will be responsible for the strategic planning, day-to-day management, and continuous improvement of A Level programmes, leading curriculum teams to deliver high-quality teaching, learning, and assessment. Working closely with teaching staff, pastoral teams, and senior leaders, you will use performance data to monitor progress, raise standards, and improve attendance, retention, and achievement.

The role requires strong people leadership, with responsibility for coaching and developing staff, managing performance, and fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and excellence.

You will also ensure that all programmes meet awarding body, regulatory, and safeguarding requirements, maintaining high standards of compliance and inspection readiness.

This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious leader who is passionate about post-16 education, curriculum innovation, and helping young people succeed.

What You Will Do

• Lead the planning, implementation, and review of A Level programmes.
• Ensure curriculum intent, implementation, and impact are clear and effective.
• Develop innovative and ambitious curriculum pathways.
• Monitor schemes of work, assessment plans, and curriculum sequencing.
• Ensure programmes meet awarding body and regulatory requirements.
• Line manage curriculum leads, teachers, and support staff.
• Liaise with stakeholders ensure curriculum offer meets local needs and is destination led.

About You

• You have experience of leading academic programmes, managing teams, and driving improvements in teaching, learning, and student performance.
• You are highly organised, resilient, and able to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. 
• Using data confidently, you can identify trends, challenge underperformance, and implement effective strategies that improve attendance, retention, achievement, and progression.
• You are an inspiring people manager who can motivate, coach, and develop staff to achieve high standards, while creating a positive and collaborative team culture. 
• You build strong relationships with colleagues, students, parents, and external stakeholders, communicating with confidence and professionalism.
• You have a sound understanding of post-16 education, curriculum quality, safeguarding, and compliance requirements, with a clear focus on continuous improvement and learner success.
• You are a passionate and ambitious education leader with a strong commitment to delivering outstanding outcomes for young people. 
• Most importantly, you are driven by the desire to make a real difference to students’ lives and to lead a high-performing A Level provision with vision, and purpose.

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

Keighley College has excellent modern facilities and provides a professional and friendly environment. We pride ourselves on working closely with employers, the local community and other stakeholders to provide curriculum and support that meets the needs of our students. Our core purpose is to improve the life chances of our learners. We are passionate about helping our students to achieve their goals. We have state-of-the-art facilities in a central location, close to public transport links and great industry connections.

Choosing to work for Keighley College means that you will be part of an enterprising, inclusive, inspiring, collaborative, empowering, and dynamic environment. We hope that we will be part of the next step in your career and look forward to welcoming you to Keighley College.

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 CVs 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.

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