Programme Leader - Digital Marketing / Business or Entrepreneurship

The Faculty of IT are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic lecturer, with a real passion for Teaching and Learning, to become a part of our team. We would welcome applicants with industry or teaching experience in either of the following areas: Digital Marketing, Business or Entrepreneurship. In return we offer you the opportunity to join a dynamic vocational faculty which is currently developing and delivering a brand new and exciting curriculum offer including BTECs, T levels and Apprenticeships. Our HE qualifications are validated by the University of Plymouth and we are continuing our work with esports by introducing a new HNC esports from September 2023 to complement our HNC / HND in Applied Computing. In addition to teaching, you will also offer pastoral support as a tutor.

Topics that you may be keen to deliver on or support might include:

• Project Management
• Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
• Marketing in a Digital Environment
• Digital Environments and Analytics
• Culture and Diversity
• Driving Digital Content and Engagement

Ideally, you will have previous experience of delivering digital business and/ or related subjects either in a further education or schools setting. However, we would also like to invite applications from NQTs and those currently without a teaching qualification, who would be interested in committing to a career in teaching. The college delivers an excellent Certificate of Education programme and can offer the opportunity to train as a teacher alongside this role. 

Our IT faculty is based in the heart of the city centre, just a few minutes’ walk from Exeter Central Station. We also have classrooms and specialist facilities in the recently opened Digital and Data Centre, our brand-new building offering high-quality, cutting-edge provision to support our students. This building boasts a fully equipped IT lab for our computer technicians as well as a sector leading esports venue, used by our competition winning students. In addition, it contains specialist Apple teaching facilities and high end HE delivery spaces including a 140+ seat lecture theatre. Our curriculum is enhanced by our being a Microsoft Academy, a CISCO Academy and an Apple Authorised Training Centre.

We welcome applications from candidates who can support our continued vision of collaboration across courses and with industry partners.

If you would be interested in a fractional role rather than full time, please indicate this in your supporting statement.

Our values – Ambition, Collaboration, Energy

Our values are what make us, us. Please do take a couple of minutes to learn more about them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcFUB8HvS9M 

Your benefits

We recognise that taking regular breaks from work is important. The College offers full time teaching staff up to 56 days off per year (this includes 40 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and a period of operational closure at Christmas closure (which has been 8 days in recent years). You will also have the opportunity to join the Teachers Pension scheme, find out more at Teachers' Pensions (teacherspensions.co.uk).

Your development

As a member of our team, you will also have access to a range of excellent benefits and discounts, along with staff development opportunities, wellbeing services and activities. 

Key Information 

At Exeter College we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our student's including children, young people, and vulnerable adults. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow the Safer Recruitment requirements as set out within Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance.

All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.  

All posts at Exeter College are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) provide that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further inform. 

We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity and access for all, irrespective of age, background, race, gender, religion, ability, disability, or sexuality. We welcome applications for employment from the whole community 

If you would like to apply today, please go to http://www.exe-coll.ac.uk/College/Jobs

The closing date for receipt of completed applications is midnight, 9th January 2023.

We will be holding interviews the afternoon of Wednesday 25th January 2023.

Successful applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure by the DBS.

We do not accept CVs, no agencies please.

Exeter College is committed to promoting equality of opportunity and access for all, irrespective of age, background, race, gender, religion, ability, disability, or sexuality. We welcome applications for employment from the whole community.

Exeter College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.