Head of Further Education
Hereford College of Arts
Herefordshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- up to £50,000
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 14 May 2017
Job overview
Hereford College of Arts is a vibrant, dedicated arts college with a specialist focus on art, media, design, popular music and performing arts. The curriculum includes undergraduate and postgraduate degrees alongside a range of Further Education programmes and a wide ranging short course programme. Our mission is to empower creativity and enrich our world through transformative arts education. We are proud of our track record but have ambitious plans to develop and grow. Hereford city and the wider region are also full of ambition with a new engineering university in development and a dynamic bid for UK City of Culture 2021 galvanising new creative collaboration across the region. At the same time a number of changes in policy and wider social changes are also having a major impact on the worlds of Higher and Further education. At this exciting period of new opportunities and challenges for Hereford College of Arts we are creating this new role to ensure the college has dedicated leadership and focus on Further Education within the senior team, reporting directly to the Principal.
As Head of Further Education you will provide inspirational leadership across the FE provision whilst ensuring it remains fully integrated into the college as a whole. You will ensure excellent management and development of academic staff across FE promoting the college mission, vision and values and a culture of confidence, understanding and support for what it takes to be outstanding in every way. You will oversee all aspects of curriculum development, learning and teaching, and assessment and quality assurance, to ensure the very best outcomes for our students. You will identify new opportunities for financially viable curriculum development to meet learners’ needs locally, nationally and even internationally and play a leading role in the development and delivery of recruitment strategies. You will build external partnerships with businesses and other organisations to further college strategic objectives and benefit students and staff.
As a member of the Senior Leadership Team you will also have an important contribution to make to the overall strategic leadership of the college and will promote collaboration, alignment and efficiency across our FE and HE provision to benefit students, and ensure the college is greater than the sum of its parts.
About Hereford College of Arts
- Hereford College of Arts
- Folly Lane, Hereford
- Herefordshire
- HR1 1LT
- United Kingdom
Artists Access to Art Colleges Scheme (AA2A) is a project from the Council for Higher Education in Art and Design, funded by the Lottery through the Arts Council, England.
The Artists Access to Art Colleges project is a national scheme which has been established for more than eight years. Hereford College of Arts is one of 32 colleges and universities across England that has been successful in its application each year to run an Artists Access scheme.
At a local level the AA2A scheme will give four artists and makers each year the opportunity to use the college’s facilities from - computers to kilns and life rooms to libraries, to develop their work. This allows students to work alongside artists and gain a valuable insight into the art world outside college.
Hereford College of Arts is looking for applications in the following specialist areas: printmaking, wood, jewellery, ceramics, textiles, artists books, multi-media, photography, animation & painting. The scheme will run from Oct 07 to April 08.
• Access is free, for at least 100 hours, between Oct 2008 and April 2009 and a materials/travel grant of £220 is available
• Applicants must have at least one years professional practice and should be able to work with minimal technical support
• Artists on AA2A schemes run from 2005 to 2006 or before can reapply
• AA2A particularly welcomes applications from applicants with disabilities, from culturally diverse backgrounds and non-graduates
• For further details please visit www.aa2a.org
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