Principal and Chief Executive
Barking & Dagenham College
Barking and Dagenham
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive salary and benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 29 March 2015
Job overview
Routes into learning
- Entry Level through to MBA Level
- Education and training (12,500 students of which 3,500 are 16-18 years olds)
- Technical and specialist curriculum - Level 3 and above, with a broad based offer from Entry to Level 2.
- 750 apprentices plus higher level apprenticeships, work place training and traineeships
- Higher level plus technical & professional specialisms in our 5 strategic technical areas
Construction - incl. Design & Management - Engineering - incl. mechatronics & robotics - Digital Creative - Health & Social Care - Leadership and
Management - pan London occupational sectors.
A Truly Great College - Passionate About Success
Following the recent announcement that our Principal and Chief Executive Cathy Walsh is moving on in July 2015, after 7 years of outstanding service, the College is seeking to appoint a new Principal & CEO, who is an exceptional leader of people.
Someone who is passionate and driven about student success, through education and training that leads to economic independence. Someone who is aspirational and can motivate and inspire with confidence - students, staff and external stakeholders. Someone with business and commercial acumen, with people skills of a higher order, with creativity, innovation and enterprising approaches to how the College is led and managed.
Barking & Dagenham College was rated by Ofsted in April 2013 as "Outstanding" for its Leadership, Management and Governance with "Good" for Overall Effectiveness. It is a vibrant and highly successful College in East London with c.12,500 students, c.500 established staff and a turnover that has grown by 25% in 6 years and is now £35m. We are immensely proud of the achievements of our students, our motivated and entrepreneurial staff teams and our extensive employer partnership networks, some of which operate from the College campus. We have a Job centre Plus on campus.
We now seek to appoint a new and dynamic leader to take the College forward into its next phase of development, progressing from a strong platform that is agile and hungry to new business, well respected amongst employer networks and parents, and entrepreneurial in the delivery of the student experience and our curriculum products. Our new Principal and CEO will continue the College's journey of transformation and ambition to position the College as a Regional Centre of Excellence in technical and professional training. You will be a leader who is able to inspire all of our delivery teams and understand the importance of an holistic approach to education and training. A leader who will bring new ideas to further develop our outstanding student and customer centred approaches that focus on entrepreneurialism.
If you are an exceptional, student centred leader of people, passionate about success, then we want to hear from you.
We are working with Protocol on this important appointment.
To discuss this appointment, please contact Helen Anderson on 0115 911 1117, or visit www.protocol.co.uk/BDC or www.bdc.ac.uk (working for us).
Closing date: midnight, Monday 29th March 2015
Assessment date 20th April and the interviews will take place on 21st April 2015.
Barking & Dagenham College
About Barking & Dagenham College
- Barking & Dagenham College
- Dagenham Road, Rush Green, Romford
- Essex
- RM7 0XU
- United Kingdom
Located in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, Barking and Dagenham College is a large further education college providing qualifications and work skills to learners aged 14 and over. The college has seen extensive redevelopment and modernisation since its founding, and as a result can boast of a wide range of different teaching and recreational facilities. The college also works closely with external providers and business partners, in order to provide some teaching and work-experience off-site for students who require it.
Principal
Yvonne Kelly
Values and Vision
Barking and Dagenham College offers a huge range of courses for learners of every kind, young and old, full and part-time. Of particular importance are courses aimed at 16-18 school-leavers, with a number of A-level and BTEC courses being run by the college, as well as foundation degrees for students looking to go into higher education. The college itself does actually offer a limited number of higher education degree courses, with students able to take advantage of the college's location and flexible financial offerings.
Ofsted
“Outstanding leadership and management have ensured that teaching, learning and assessment, and outcomes for students have improved and are good. The majority of students achieve their learning goals, enjoy their studies and make good progress. Governors, leaders and managers, through their ambitious vision for the college, have created an aspirational and safe environment; staff at all levels share and promote this demanding vision, leading to high expectations for all its students, staff and community.”
The full report into Barking and Dagenham College can be found here.
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