Theme Lead (Vocational Training)

You will be responsible for the development, delivery, management, and evaluation of vocational training. You will ensure that its provisions are robust and linked to quality assurance systems and processes, coordinating across the College and wider SPS at an initial stage to develop training and organisational needs analyses, and leading on design governance. This will then be followed by ongoing compliance management: maintaining internal and external standards, regulatory requirements, and awarding body expectations, whilst supporting educational integrity and continuous improvement.

You will have overall responsibility for the design, delivery, and assessment of training and teaching materials, as well as the progression of learners and management of standards within your theme. This will involve line management responsibility for a number of Learning and Development (L&D) Managers.

You will maintain your workstream in line with internal College strategy, as well as maintaining consistency with wider SPS policy and organisational developments. As your workstreams will contain wider strategic project working and partnership collaboration, you will be expected to demonstrate strong organisational, problem-solving, communication and collaborative working skills.

As part of this role, you will be responsible for evaluating the financial impact of any proposed training initiatives, ensuring the balance between cost, scalability, delivery method, and expected organisational benefit. This will require taking a whole‑system perspective to confirm that learning solutions remain both operationally viable and cost‑effective, while still meeting professional standards.

In line with the organisational objective of becoming a learning organisation, you will create and maintain a purposeful learning environment, including the ongoing management of the College’s learning support strategy.