Education Team Leader with FSC Scotland, predominantly based at Kindrogan Field Centre

This role primarily involves leading the education team to develop, plan and deliver ‘out-of-classroom learning’ activities to a wide ranging audience; engaging and enthusing students and assisting FSC achieve their goal of ‘Inspiring Environmental Understanding through first-hand experience’. The post-holder will be expected to lead groups of all abilities in the natural environment with the ability to provide an appropriate standard of care for our learners. The post holder will be responsible for management of all aspects of the Education team, bringing together the staff to promote excellence across a spectrum of activities. 

This is essentially an active role and will require the post-holder to be able to carry out duties associated with effectively managing groups in outdoor learning locations, which may be remote, whilst ensuring the health and safety of the group at all times, including carrying safety sacks.

Key Responsibilities:

Management

• Contributing to the leadership of the learning location as a member of the Senior Management Team
• Working with the FSC Scotland Senior Management Team to oversee the day-to-day operation of the learning location in the absence of the Centre Manager
• Working together with the Centre Manager to increase occupancy and length of season
• Lead developments and improvements for education provision guided by reports and analysis at the Learning Location and whole Charity level with reference to external benchmarks as appropriate
• Carrying out line management of the education team, providing support and advice through induction, training & personal review. This will involve day-to-day management of the education team at the learning location
• Leading FSC Health & Safety systems for educational aspects of the learning location, and ensuring the education team complies with all relevant legislation/FSC OCoPs.

Teaching

• Leading the development, delivery and quality assurance of out-of-classroom learning experiences to a wide-ranging audience of formal and informal educational groups 
• Specification-led programmes at Primary, S1-S3, National 4&5, Higher and Advanced Higher in biology and geography (and related subjects)      
  • Curriculum for Excellence linked environmental programmes
  • Informal leisure-learning programmes for adult and family groups
  • Supporting other courses, e.g. university groups, PGCE, etc
• Ensuring that - where appropriate - programmes have relevance to the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence and Scottish Qualifications Authority
• Incorporating opportunities for the development of key skills within ‘out-of-classroom’ activities
• Liaising with accompanying staff to ensure programmes meet their requirements
• Ensuring that education staff are involved in wider education initiatives e.g. advisory groups, trainee tutor scheme, new initiatives promoted by Head Office e.g. IB and relevant local initiatives

Resource & Project Development

• Leading administration, support & maintenance of resources,      lesson plans and schemes of work for the education team

General

• Complying with all relevant legislation / FSC Operating Codes of Practice (OCoPs) /      FSC Health and Safety Handbook and FSC procedures
• Taking an active role in the learning location’s evening and residential duties - this will involve staying on site on some evenings and overnight to deal with customer issues and respond to emergencies. As a key member of the senior on-call team you will also      provide support to other duty staff
• Delivering a high standard of customer service and customer care
• Ensuring the highest standards of quality are achieved in all duties carried out
• Working closely with other staff to ensure that appropriate levels of service are      maintained during absences and periods of high workload 
• Maintaining a high standard of personal hygiene & personal appearance in accordance with FSC policies
• Fulfilling your obligations under FSC’s Behaviour Partnership to ensure a happy, productive working environment
• Attending staff meetings as well as FSC internal and external training as required, in order to share best practice and improve team and learning location performance, and      participating fully in staff development activities (sometimes this may involve travel to other learning locations with the occasional overnight stay) 

Driving: We have a number of vehicles which you will be asked to drive. To do so, you will need to be 21 years or over, have a full valid driving licence, to have been driving for at least two years, and undertake an internal assessment on commencement in the role 

You may also be required to drive our minibuses.  If you do not hold D1 entitlement and have the appropriate driving experience/certification, you may be required to undertake the relevant training upon commencement of the role

Undertaking any other duties that may reasonably be required to ensure the smooth and efficient running of the learning location

Interview Date 26th September 2017