Curriculum & Quality Manager

Job description

Contract terms

Starting salary: PO6 (£54,267 – £57,402)
Work location: Wood Green Library, 187 High Road, London, N22 6DS
Hours per week: 36 per week
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: Sunday, 19th July 2026 at 23:59
Expected interview date: W/c 3rd August 2026

If you are intending on going for a secondment opportunity, please insure you have notified your line manager/head of service to seek approval

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the role

At a pivotal moment for Haringey Learns, we are seeking an exceptional Curriculum and Quality Manager to help shape the service’s next phase of development. As we enter a formal Ofsted readiness period, respond to significant changes across the further education and skills landscape, and manage a planned leadership transition, this role offers a unique opportunity to lead with purpose and deliver lasting impact.

You will provide strategic and operational leadership to ensure a high-quality, inclusive curriculum aligned to GLA priorities, local labour market needs and funding requirements, while maintaining full compliance with Adult Skills Fund rules. Central to the role is embedding the Ofsted Education Inspection Framework into everyday practice—moving beyond compliance to a culture where quality is continuous, visible, and impactful.

Leading robust quality assurance processes including SAR and QIP, you will ensure teaching, learning and assessment consistently demonstrate strong outcomes. Through effective use of data and performance management systems, you will drive improvement, oversee delivery, and evidence success. As Designated Safeguarding Lead, you will also champion a strong safeguarding culture and ensure statutory compliance.

In a climate of heightened accountability and scrutiny, your leadership will provide stability, strengthen partnerships, and ensure Haringey Learns remains credible, responsive and inspection ready. This is an opportunity for a dynamic, values-driven leader to embed excellence, empower teams, and ensure quality is not prepared for—but lived every day

About the team

Within the quality function, leadership of MIS, contracts, exams, digital learning, infrastructure and ALS/ALDD provision is central to creating a high-performing, responsive and future-focused service. This role brings together these critical strands to ensure they operate not as isolated functions, but as an integrated system that underpins quality, compliance and learner success.

At its core, this leadership is about turning data into intelligence and intelligence into action. Oversight of MIS and contracts ensures that performance is accurately tracked, funding is secured and protected, and delivery aligns precisely with allocation and regulatory expectations. This provides the foundation for confident decision-making and strategic planning in a complex and tightly controlled funding environment.

Exams management is driven with precision and reliability, ensuring robust systems, compliance with awarding body requirements, and a seamless learner experience. Alongside this, leadership of digital learning and infrastructure focuses on creating a modern, accessible and resilient learning environment—one that enhances teaching, supports innovation, and enables both staff and learners to thrive in an increasingly digital landscape.

Equally critical is the leadership of ALS/ALDD provision, ensuring that inclusion is not an add-on, but a fundamental principle embedded across all delivery. This means championing equity, removing barriers to learning, and ensuring that every learner, regardless of need, is supported to achieve and progress.

Bringing these areas together requires a dynamic and collaborative approach—aligning systems, people and processes so they collectively drive quality improvement, operational excellence, and positive learner outcomes. Through strong leadership, clear accountability and a relentless focus on impact, these functions become a powerful engine for performance, credibility and continuous improvement across the organisation.

About you

To succeed in this role, we need a dynamic Curriculum and Quality Manager who can seamlessly bring together curriculum design and quality assurance into a single, coherent strategy for excellence. This is not simply about managing processes—it is about shaping a culture where high-quality curriculum and robust quality systems work hand in hand to deliver outstanding outcomes for learners.

The ideal candidate will bring substantial, proven experience within further or adult education, underpinned by a recognised teaching qualification, with additional qualifications in quality improvement and leadership highly desirable. Working closely with the Principal, they will help design and deliver a strategic vision for curriculum and quality, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities, funding requirements and Ofsted expectations, while driving continuous improvement across the service. They will have the confidence and credibility to lead from the front, influence stakeholders at all levels, and translate strategy into measurable impact.

We are looking for someone who is confident and resilient, able to navigate challenge and lead through complexity, with a strong track record of improving quality, performance and learner outcomes. They will be innovative and forward-thinking, using data intelligently to inform decisions and demonstrate impact, while championing safeguarding and inclusion at every level. Above all, they will be deeply committed to continuous improvement, motivated to meet challenges head-on, and driven to ensure that excellence is not an aspiration, but a lived reality across the organisation

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.  Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.  

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