{"id":3394602,"url":"https://alion.io/job/fbca-curriculum-development-manager","title":"Curriculum Development Manager","company":{"id":2382864,"name":"FBCA","domain":"fbca.org.uk","url":"https://alion.io/company/fbca","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":null},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Romford, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":50676,"max":54927,"currency":"GBP","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":73096},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-28T09:51:17Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-28","last_verified_at":"2026-11-04T08:14:22Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":7,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":7},"description":"Curriculum Development Manager\nHavering Adult College - London Borough of Havering\nGrade 8 | c. £50,676-£54,927 per annum\nIndicative salary range reflecting the 3.3% pay award; updated Council pay scales are awaiting publication.\n36 hours per week | Full time\n24-month fixed-term contract, with strong potential to become permanent\nPost Number: 104764\nPrimarily based at Upminster Creative Centre, with hybrid working and travel across College and community venues\nClosing date: 23 November 2026\nInterviews: Week commencing 7 December 2026\nAbout Havering Adult College\nHavering Adult College is an ambitious, forward-thinking adult learning service delivering education and skills opportunities for adults across the borough.\nOur mission is to deliver transformative, high-quality adult education that enables individuals to gain essential skills, achieve personal and professional goals and contribute to a thriving and inclusive society.\nOur Adult Learning Strategy places a strong emphasis on developing provision in priority growth sectors, widening participation, strengthening progression and employment outcomes, increasing employer involvement and ensuring our curriculum remains responsive to changing community and labour-market needs. Creative Industries is one of the College's identified priority sectors, alongside a commitment to broaden education provision, including Special Educational Needs support.\nWe are now looking for an exceptional Curriculum Development Manager to lead the development of some of the College's most exciting areas of future growth.\nThe opportunity\nThis is not a traditional curriculum-management role focused simply on maintaining an existing programme.\nWe are looking for an entrepreneurial curriculum leader who enjoys building things.\nYou will take ownership of a portfolio that combines established provision with significant opportunities for growth and innovation:\nCreative Industries\nArts & Crafts\nLanguages, including British Sign Language\nThe College's new discrete SEND provision\nYou will be expected to understand your markets, identify opportunities, develop high-quality curriculum, build partnerships, grow learner participation and create financially sustainable provision.\nThis means developing new courses from the ground up as well as challenging, improving and expanding established programmes. You will work with employers, communities, partners and colleagues across the Council to identify unmet need and turn good ideas into viable learning opportunities.\nThe College's strategy supports an increasingly agile approach to curriculum development, including new priority-sector programmes, flexible and stackable pathways and stronger employer involvement in curriculum design. It also recognises the importance of diversifying income through grants, partnerships and co-investment.\nWhat you will be responsible for\nYou will have significant delegated responsibility for the quality, growth, performance and financial sustainability of your curriculum portfolio.\nYour responsibilities will include developing an ambitious curriculum plan aligned to the Adult Learning Strategy; identifying and launching new accredited, Tailored Learning and fee-paying provision; setting and achieving learner recruitment, participation, quality and financial targets; and ensuring courses remain relevant, viable and responsive to learner and stakeholder need.\nYou will line manage Specialist Teacher/Assessors and sessional teachers, developing a high-performing teaching workforce and ensuring consistently high standards of teaching, learning and assessment.\nYou will use data confidently to understand performance and take action. This will include enrolment, attendance, retention, achievement, learner experience, progression, curriculum viability and financial performance. Curriculum Development Managers are expected to own their performance position, intervene where required and provide evidence-led forecasts and recommendations rather than simply report problems.\nA major part of the role will also involve identifying opportunities to bring additional resources into the College. You will be expected to develop relationships and propositions capable of generating grant funding, commissioned activity, employer investment, partnership funding and sustainable fee income.\nA particular opportunity to develop SEND provision\nThe successful candidate will have an important role in developing the College's new discrete SEND curriculum offer.\nOur wider strategy places inclusion at the heart of curriculum development: widening participation, removing barriers, making appropriate adjustments and monitoring participation and outcomes for different learner groups.\nDirect experience of SEND curriculum development or delivery is therefore particularly advantageous and will be weighted strongly within the desirable criteria.\nHowever, we recognise that the strongest candidate may not already be a specialist practitioner across every curriculum area within this varied portfolio. What matters most is your ability to identify need, build high-quality provision, recruit and develop the right expertise and turn strategic priorities into successful curriculum.\nYou must be willing to undertake additional specialist qualifications or professional development where these are identified as necessary to assure high-quality provision, particularly in relation to SEND.\nAbout you\nWe are looking for someone with extensive curriculum development experience and clear evidence that they can turn ideas into successful, sustainable provision.\nYou will need to demonstrate a strong track record of:\nDeveloping and growing curriculum provision rather than simply maintaining established programmes.\nSuccessfully achieving quality, curriculum and financial KPIs.\nLeading and developing teaching staff.\nUsing performance, financial and market information to make effective decisions.\nIdentifying new learner or customer demand and translating it into viable programmes.\nBuilding productive relationships with employers, community organisations and other stakeholders.\nManaging budgets and understanding the financial viability of curriculum provision.\nImproving underperforming provision and taking decisive action where targets are not being achieved.\nManaging multiple priorities with a high level of autonomy, drive and personal accountability.\nYou will be entrepreneurial, commercially aware and highly motivated by growth and improvement, while understanding that innovation within a local-authority education service must be evidence-led, financially responsible and operate within appropriate governance and quality requirements.\nExperience in Creative Industries, Arts & Crafts, Languages/BSL or SEND would be advantageous. SEND experience will be particularly valuable, but specialist subject experience alone will not outweigh the ability to successfully develop curriculum, people, partnerships and income.\nQualifications\nIn line with the existing Job Profile, applicants must hold:\nA relevant subject-specific full Level 4 or Level 5 qualification, as dictated by national standards.\nA recognised teaching qualification at a minimum of Level 4.\nAn appropriate assessor qualification\nLevel 2 or equivalent literacy and numeracy.\nAn Internal Verification/Internal Quality Assurance qualification is desirable.\nWhere further specialist qualifications are subsequently identified as necessary for elements of the candidate's portfolio, the successful postholder will be expected to undertake the appropriate professional development.\nBuilding something sustainable\nThis is initially a 24-month fixed-term appointment, but there is a strong prospect of the role continuing beyond the fixed term and potentially becoming a permanent position.\nContinuation will be subject to future funding, organisational and service requirements, satisfactory performance and the relevant Council approval processes.\nA major objective during the 24-month period will therefore be for the successful candidate to strengthen the long-term sustainability of their portfolio and the post itself. This will include:\ngrowing participation and provision in their curriculum areas;\ndeveloping Creative Industries in line with the Adult Learning Strategy;\nsuccessfully establishing and growing the College's discrete SEND offer;\nmaintaining strong quality and learner outcomes;\nachieving agreed curriculum and financial KPIs;\ndeveloping sustainable fee-paying and commercially viable provision; and\nsecuring additional income through grants, commissioned activity, partnerships and other external funding opportunities.\nThe College's strategic direction is explicitly towards more responsive provision, stronger partnerships, employment-relevant learning and diversified funding, so the postholder will have considerable opportunity to directly influence the future shape and sustainability of their portfolio.\nWorking arrangements\nThe post will be primarily based at the Upminster Creative Centre, reflecting responsibility for the College's growing Creative Industries provision.\nHavering Adult College supports flexible and hybrid working, although this is a leadership role and regular on-site presence will be required. You will also need to visit other College centres, community delivery locations, partners and external meetings across Havering and occasionally beyond.\nGiven the regular travel required, a full driving licence and access to a car, or suitable alternative travel arrangements, will be necessary.\nSome occasional evening or weekend working may be required to support College events, curriculum delivery or other service requirements.\nWhy join us?\nThis is an unusual opportunity to take genuine ownership of a varied curriculum portfolio at a point when Havering Adult College is actively investing in growth, innovation and new models of adult learning.\nRather than inheriting a fixed programme and simply keeping it running, you will have permission and expectation to build: new courses, new markets, new partnerships, new income streams and a new SEND offer.\nYou will work as part of the College's management team but will have substantial autonomy within your own curriculum areas, alongside access to Specialist Teacher/Assessors, sessional teachers, quality, marketing, MIS and operational support.\nFor someone who enjoys developing provision and seeing measurable results from their work, there is significant scope to make the portfolio their own.\nHow to apply\nPlease complete the online application and submit a supporting statement of no more than two A4 pages.\nYour supporting statement should clearly demonstrate how your experience meets the requirements of the role, with particular reference to:\ncurriculum development and growth; leadership and management of teaching staff; quality improvement; achievement of performance and financial targets; development of new provision; and securing or generating additional income or funding.\nIf applicable, please also explain your experience within Creative Industries, Arts & Crafts, Languages/BSL and/or SEND.\nPlease do not attach a CV, as this will not be considered as part of the selection process.\nFor an informal discussion about the role, please contact:\nBradley Burton\nQuality & Curriculum Manager\nHavering Adult College\n\nClosing date: Monday 23 November 2026\nInterviews: Week commencing Monday 7 December 2026\nThe Council reserves the right to close the vacancy early if sufficient suitable applications are received.\nPlease viewJob Profilehere\nAdditional Information\nWe want everyone to choose Havering. When you apply for a job with us, your application is considered on its merits regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, faith, gender identity or sexual orientation. Our residents and service users come from all walks of life, and so do our employees. 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