Job Description

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Vice Principal Curriculum (Adults and Apprenticeships)

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Abingdon
10/08/2025


The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.


Job details

Salary

84,833 (Pay award pending) per annum

Contractual hours

37

Basis

Full time

Region

South

Package

The College offers excellent benefits as well as generous pension schemes and holiday.

Job category/type

Management

Date posted

07/07/2025

Job reference

AWC0001364

Job description


No candidate will meet every single desired qualification / criteria. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!



84,833 (Pay award pending) per annum

37 hours per week

The working pattern is Monday to Thursday 7.5 hours per day, Friday 7 hours per day

52 weeks per annum

Abingdon Campus

Permanent

Interviews to be held on 20th August

About Us:

Abingdon and Witney College is an award-winning education and skills provider in Oxfordshire, recognised for our excellence in both Further and Higher Education. Over the past few years, we have experienced significant growth, with our income increasing by over 13%. Our achievements include being named Hays Employer of the Year, Pearson BTEC College of the Year, and receiving a Beacon Award. We have invested in state-of-the-art facilities and fostered an innovative, inclusive, and supportive culture to ensure that we achieve our vision of being a college where everyone exceeds their potential.

The Role:

Reporting to the Principal and CEO, the post will lead on all aspects of adult provision, with particular focus on leading Apprenticeships, Higher Education and Adult/ Community Learning. The breadth, variety and wealth of opportunities within the provision are exciting, and there is ample opportunity to bring your own ideas, lead new initiatives, develop and diversify our offer, and further establish a high profile in the region.



We have a well established, highly impactful adult offer which extends across Oxfordshire, with the second largest tailored learning contract in England. Our sizeable apprenticeship provision, currently graded as Outstanding, has grown consistently and sustainably in recent years. We have many impactful partnerships with local employers, while there is strong ongoing demand for our specialist Construction Skills Centre. Our HE offer, which includes degrees delivered in partnership with Oxford Brookes University, has excellent potential to grow and develop further.

Key Responsibilities:

You will provide strategic direction and overall leadership of Apprenticeships, Higher Education and Community/Adult Learning across the whole college, ensuring that our offer is innovative, relevant and responsive to the needs of students, employers and the wider community. You will maintain the highest possible quality and outcomes, while overseeing a superb student experience. In addition, as a member of the Senior Management Team, you will contribute to the formation and delivery of the college's strategic plan and champion its ethos of teamwork and excellence.

About You:

We are looking for a motivational leader with a track record of successfully managing high performing curriculum areas, with direct experience in at least one of apprenticeships, higher education or community / adult learning. Key strengths will include external relationship building and innovative, responsive curriculum design at a strategic level. Ambition and passion to enrich lives across our local communities is of key importance, as is the ability to develop and motivate our talented staff.



If this opportunity excites you, we would love you to discuss it further with Bernie Cullen, our retained consultant. There will also be an opportunity to have a further conversation about it with our Principal and CEO. We warmly invite you to apply.

Bernie Cullen | Recruitment Manager

Closing date: 10th August

2025 (Midnight)

Abingdon and Witney College reserve the right to close all applications before posted closing date*




AWC values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to safeguarding and expect all our employees and volunteers to share this commitment. We are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and all appointments are subject to satisfactory clearances including enhanced DBS checks.


Abingdon and Witney College are committed to safer recruitment practices. In addition to our pre-employment checks, we will conduct an online search. This includes checking Google main results feed as well as the 'News' and 'Images' tab. We will be checking for any publicly available information that suggests the applicant may not be suitable to work with children or young/vulnerable people or content that could potentially damage Abingdon and Witney College's reputation. This may include inappropriate posts, comments or images displaying evidence of offensive or inappropriate behaviour, jokes or language, discriminatory comments, inappropriate photos, drug or alcohol misuse.