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- Vice Principal – Curriculum (Adults, HE & Apprenticeships)
Vice Principal – Curriculum (Adults, HE & Apprenticeships)
Salary: £73,909.85 - £85,681.23
Organisation: The Sheffield College
Location: Sheffield
Closing Date: 05 Apr 2026
The Sheffield College is a further and higher education college that provides academic, vocational, and professional qualifications to approximately 14,500 young people and adults a year. Our mission is transforming lives through learning. The college, which is Ofsted graded ‘good’, provides high-quality academic, technical, and vocational training to enhance qualifications, skills, and employability across the region, and operates from a number of campuses and sites across the city.
We are now seeking a Vice Principal – Curriculum to provide strategic and operational leadership across Adult Education, Apprenticeships, Work-Based Learning and Higher Education provision. As part of the college’s Executive Leadership Team, you will have high aspirations and standards for our learners and our communities. Reporting in directly to the Deputy Principal – Curriculum you will play a key role in ensuring high-quality, compliant and financially sustainable curriculum delivery across these portfolios, driving strong outcomes, excellent learner and employer experience, and alignment with the College's mission to be consistently great and support the region's skills priorities. The successful candidate will provide outstanding executive leadership for the College's Adult Education, Higher Education and Apprenticeship provision, ensuring high-quality learner and employer experiences that lead to strong achievement, progression and employability outcomes.
You will be a dynamic, proactive, and values-based leader with a moral purpose who puts students first and has an unwavering commitment to pursue achievement for all. An individual with integrity, who prioritises communication and collaboration, empowers others, and is visible and accessible to staff. You will be a strategic thinker with a strong sense of vision and an effective leader of change, with the ability to inspire and harness talent.
If you believe that you have the drive, vision, skills, expertise, and enthusiasm to make a difference and help us realise our ambitions, we want to hear from you.
Key Dates to Note:
Closing date for applications is: Monday 5 April 2026
Final interviews to be held at the college: Wednesday 22 April 2026
For an informal conversation about this role please contact Rachel West at rachel.west@aoc.co.uk