Vice Principal Quality (FE & Skills)

Job Title: Vice Principal Quality (FE & Skills)

Location: Birmingham

Salary: Up to £85,000 per annum (Fixed)

Job type: Permanent, Full-time

The University is unlike any other. Standing proud in the heart of the city of Birmingham, they have been delivering career-focused education and training for decades. With around 8000 students across FE and HE level provision, the University is highly respected by employers and industry in meeting the region's skills needs.

The University's mission is to promote and provide the opportunity for participation in the learning process by those with the ambition and commitment to succeed and to maintain a learning community that meets the diverse needs of our students, the economy and society at large.

The University is strengthening its leadership capacity within the Further Education College as part of an exciting phase of growth and development. We are recruiting to a Vice Principal - Quality (FE & Skills) role to provide strategic leadership for quality assurance, improvement and regulatory compliance across our FE and skills provision.

About the Role:

Reporting to the Deputy Principal (FE), the Vice Principal - Quality will provide strategic leadership and institutional oversight for the quality, consistency and continuous improvement of the Further Education and Skills portfolio at the University.

The role has responsibility for ensuring robust quality assurance and enhancement across the Universities' FE and Skills provision, including technical, vocational and sixth form programmes, ensuring that teaching, learning, assessment and learner support consistently meet internal performance expectations and external regulatory standards.

The postholder will also provide quality oversight of apprenticeship provision delivered across both Further Education and Higher Education, ensuring strong outcomes for apprentices and employer partners.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic quality oversight across the Universities' FE and Skills portfolio, including technical, vocational and sixth form provision, alongside apprenticeship programmes delivered across FE and HE
• Lead the development and implementation of the FE quality assurance and enhancement framework
• Provide oversight of Self-Assessment Reports (SAR) and Quality Improvement Plans (QIP)
• Monitor performance indicators including retention, achievement and progression
• Prepare and present quality reports to Governors and senior committees
• Ensure readiness for Ofsted inspection and external scrutiny
• Lead professional development initiatives to strengthen teaching, learning and assessment

About You:

We are looking for a strategic and analytical quality leader with extensive experience in FE quality improvement.

You will bring:

• Senior leadership experience in FE quality assurance and improvement
• Strong knowledge of Ofsted frameworks and regulatory requirements
• Excellent data analysis and reporting skills
• A proven ability to drive organisational improvement
• Outstanding communication and leadership skills

Why Join Us?

You will play a central role in ensuring the continued excellence of our FE provision, supporting staff to deliver outstanding learning experiences and strong student outcomes.

Benefits:

• Generous allocation of annual leave
  • 38 days' paid leave per year
  • 12 Bank Holidays & Concessionary Days
• Excellent Teachers' Pension Scheme
  • Employer Contributions
    • Teachers' Pension Scheme - 28.6%
• Subsidised private healthcare provided by Aviva including a Digital GP Service.
• Employee Assistance Programme inclusive of counselling services, financial wellbeing support and bereavement support
• Annual health MOTs with our Registered Nurse
• Excellent staff development opportunities including professional qualification sponsorship
• A variety of salary sacrifice schemes including technology and cycle.
• Heavily-subsidised on-site car parking in central Birmingham
• Free on-site gym membership

Extra Information:

All applicants for employment at the University will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the principles of Safeguarding and the PREVENT agenda in the context of further and higher education.

Closing Date - Friday 10th April 2026.

Interview Date - TBC.

Please click APPLY to be emailed a link to the role on our Careers site, where you need to complete our application form in order to be considered.

Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; Deputy Principal (Quality / Curriculum), Vice Principal - Quality of Education, Vice Principal - Curriculum and Quality, Vice Principal - Student Experience / Quality, Assistant Principal - Curriculum and Quality, Director of Quality & Compliance, Director of Education, Education Director, Assistant Director (Quality), may also be considered for this role.