Director of Quality Improvement and Innovation

Director of Quality Improvement and Innovation

£52,968 - £61,405 per annum

Annual Leave - 42 days, plus 8 bank holidays and closure days Enhanced pension contributions scheme with SYPA

About us

The Sheffield College is a thriving further and higher education community, empowering around 13,000 learners each year to achieve their goals. Driven by our mission to transform lives through learning, we foster an inclusive environment — recognised through our 2026 Investors in Diversity Gold award and 3rd‑place ranking in the National Centre for Diversity’s 2025 Top 100 Most Inclusive UK Employers.

About the role

We have high aspirations and standards for ourselves and our learners, and this role will be a key one in supporting the college’s mission to be consistently great and ensure our students get the qualifications and skills they need to go further in employment, careers, apprenticeships, further training, and university level courses.

This role will specifically support our ambitions to be a great place to learn. Responsible for ensuring excellent teaching, learning and assessment cross-college, and engendering the positive use of technology across the curriculum.   

Key Objectives:

The current key objectives for the role are:

• To lead with the implementation of the college’s improvement approaches related to teaching, learning and assessment.
• To lead on the professional development approaches of all teachers and delivery staff, ensuring excellence is the norm at the college.
• To lead and implement approaches and methods related to education technology, ensuring technology is harnessed and improves outcomes for all provision types.
• To contribute to sustained performance improvement across all provision types.

Main Responsibilities:

As a member of the College Leadership Team (CLT), this post will contribute to the CLT’s common goals.

To achieve these specific duties, include, but are not limited to:

• To provide visionary and creative leadership of teaching, learning and assessment across all college provision.
• Contribute and support with the implementation of the College’s approaches for teaching, learning and assessment.
• Develop approaches that foster an ethos of continuous improvement to ensure all students experience high quality teaching, learning and assessment.
• To be researched focussed and promote a culture of excellence and innovation in teaching, learning and assessment, ensuring staff have access to up-to-date knowledge and thinking in respect of the latest research related to pedagogy.
• To develop advanced teaching and learning practitioners ensuring their impact on teaching, learning and assessment and capitalising on ideas and innovation to further enhance teaching, learning and assessment practices.
• Support and advise on all matters regarding teaching, learning and the student experience to develop and maintain continuous improvement in the quality of teaching, learning and assessment.
• To lead on the process of recruitment and induction of new teachers, devising plans that utilise our advanced practitioners to support new teachers to flourish.
• Oversee the development and implementation of relevant policies, procedures and quality initiatives linked to teaching, learning and assessment.
• To integrate and promote the use of digital learning technologies in teaching, learning and assessment.
• Help develop a culture of support and appropriate learning environments that encourage staff and students to experiment with learning technology and establish new practices.
• Lead and manage the E-Learning Team to use research-informed decisions on technology enhanced learning to ensure cost-effective deployment of new equipment and/or techniques.
• Undertake research that assists the drive to innovative teaching, learning and assessment practices.
• Undertake scholarly activities that achieve effective and continuous professional updating.
• Use relevant data analysis at Academy level to support and bring about improvements. Providing regular management information to relevant parties. 
• Work closely with the People Development Manager to plan, develop and implement initiatives for the continuing professional development of teachers and curriculum staff.
• Provide dynamic, visible and effective leadership and direction across the college, ensuring that a solutions focused and supportive culture of continuing professional development inspires, enables, empowers and motivates staff to achieve high standards of performance.
• Support in the business planning process, ensuring strategic plans for teacher development and innovation are planned in correspondence to the College’s business planning procedures, including supporting in the budgetary planning.

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What we can offer you

As the successful candidate, you will be offered a salary of between £52,968 - £61,405 per annum based upon a combination of the skills, knowledge and experience that you can bring to the role.

Alongside your salary, your pension is one of the most valuable benefits of joining the College. The Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), administered locally by SYPA, provides financial security in retirement and support for your loved ones.

Our Full Benefits Package

• SYPA – with a generous employer contribution

• Annual leave - 30 Days (222 hours) + 8 Bank Holidays (59.2 hours)- this includes a discretionary Christmas closure period

• Health and wellbeing, we offer 

• Employee assistance programme through Bupa

• Occupational Health through PAM

• Free eye tests for VDU users

• Free parking is available at the majority of our campuses

• Hybrid and flexible working opportunities

• Continuous professional development opportunities

• A people‑focused working culture where you can grow and thrive

Further information can be found on our Benefits and Career Development pages.

Disability Confident

We are a Disability Confident employer and are committed to removing barriers for applicants with a disability during our recruitment process, upon appointment and as an employee. Please review our Recruitment Guidelines for Disabled Candidates which provides further information on reasonable adjustments and how the Disability Confident scheme works in practice. If you require any reasonable adjustments or any support at any point throughout the process, please contact (url removed)

Armed Forces Covenant

As part of our commitment through the Armed Forces Covenant, we’re pledged to support the Armed Forces Community. Recognising the value Personnel, Veterans and military families contribute to our community and country.

Safeguarding

We are an employer who iscommitted to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students. Successful applicants will be required to have an enhanced DBS check and will be subject to safer recruiting procedures.Further details on our safer recruiting procedures, including the employment of ex-offenders can be found here Safeguarding

Next Steps:

To apply: Click apply online and follow the links to complete the online application. For queries regarding the application process, please contact the Recruitment Team at (url removed) CVs are currently not accepted.

As a Leader in Diversity employer, we encourage applications from everyone and value diversity in our workforce.

Closing date: 21st of June 2026

Please be aware – If we have a high number of applications, we may decide to close the vacancy earlier.