Job Description

About The Role

Lead, Inspire, Transform - Join Sheppey College as our Deputy Principal.

Are you ready to shape futures and drive excellence as an inspirational leader?

You will be passionate about developing the College site, with the goal of achieving Outstanding in all that we do.

As a Deputy Principal of Sheppey College, part of the wider East Kent Colleges Group, you will play a key part in developing our Sheppey College, supporting and collaborating with the Principal in leading and managing a team of staff. You will ensure full implementation of the Colleges' performance management systems as well as continued engagement of learners in College enrichment and social action activities. One of your focus points for our students will be providing progression into work and education opportunities, through personal, spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.


This is a really exciting time for Sheppey College, and 2025-26 will be a pivotal year in the college's development, with our new Junior College provision beginning in September, and our new building housing Engineering, Logistics and Creative and Digital Design, production and development opening in November 2025.



Alongside our priority of excellent student experience, we also focus on our employees. Here are just some of our benefits when working for the East Kent Colleges Group:


Competitive salary and holiday entitlement Strong people development opportunities: All employees have personalised development action plans, personalised 1:1 conversations and access to over 17 specialist programmes to support growth and progression Generous pension scheme - 18-28% employer contribution Access to 100's of online discounts via our Rewards Scheme (Inc. Restaurant, Grocery, Retail, Gym, Holidays) Access to cycle to work, car leasing and tech purchasing schemes Time off for your child's first day at school, moving home and for interviews Being part of a company with a Eco-Sustainability focus of being Net-Zero

About You

As the successful candidate you will be a suitably qualified and a highly experienced leader of curriculum, with a proven track record of driving high standards of teaching, learning and assessment. A community minded individual, you will work with teams across the college to increase opportunities for our students to put the skills learnt within their lessons into practice in a variety of community and employer settings, raising the profile of the College on the Isle of Sheppey and beyond. Entrepreneurial and commercially astute, we are looking for someone who will provide inspirational leadership to ensure that we maintain our values and have our strategic objectives consistently in view.



You will collaborate with the Principal on all aspects of student performance to maximise the full potential and ambitions of every student and play a key strategic role in the development and innovation of outstanding teaching, learning and assessment. You will also lead on curriculum development and design to meet the needs of employers and students, both now and in the future.

Please review the application pack and job description which will highlight responsibilities of the role, whilst giving incite of how we assess candidates.

No need to spend time updating your CV, just click apply and complete our short application form. You can save your progress as you go, and we'll review all applications and get back to all candidates after the closing date.

If you are interested in an informal chat about the role, or have any queries, please email us on jobs@ekcgroup.ac.uk

About Us

Outstanding Ofsted Provider

East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our 'Strong' skills grading by Ofsted.

Commitment to Safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles.



As a designated establishment, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore have an obligation to carry out checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults. These checks include conviction/caution self-declaration, Enhanced DBS check and obtaining sufficient referencing.



It is a criminal offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so.



If you are successful in being shortlisted to interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process.

Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

East Kent Colleges Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of our communities. We are particularly keen to increase the diversity of our staff body and encourage applications from candidates where there is underrepresentation in our workforce.



We are proud to hold the

Positive About Disability Award

and are a

Disability Confident Employer

. This confirms our commitment to interviewing all applicants who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. With any successful candidate, we will explore any reasonable adjustments to a role due to a health needs or disability.



Similarly, we have a commitment to

Care Leavers (Care Covenant Pledge)

and to current or previous

Armed Forces personnel (Armed Forces Covenant Pledge)

with a commitment to interview applicants who meet the positions essential criteria and who have declared this on their application.



We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break.



We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.