Job Title:  Associate Director Quality

Department: Quality & Performance

Reporting to: Vice Principal Quality & Performance

Salary: From £46,200 to £54,329 per annum

Annual Leave: 36 days per annum plus statutory Bank Holidays

Contractual Hours: 37 hours per week

Basis: Management Full-time, Permanent Contract

Pension: Teachers' Pension Scheme

Location: Middlesbrough College, Middlesbrough TS2 1AD

The role

Are you passionate about raising standards, driving excellence, and ensuring every learner has a transformational college experience.  Middlesbrough College is seeking an outstanding Associate Director of Quality to join our central Quality & Performance team—working across our diverse faculties, including dynamic technical areas such as Engineering.  This is an opportunity to shape quality across a forward-thinking college, influence sector-leading practice, and make a measurable impact on thousands of learners.

As an Associate Director of Quality, you will play a pivotal role in strengthening and championing quality assurance and continuous improvement across the College. You will work closely with faculty leadership teams, particularly in curriculum areas like Engineering, to ensure that programmes are ambitious, inclusive, and fully aligned with industry expectations.

You will be the lead in quality compliance, curriculum standards, and the sharing of best practice, acting as the driving force behind initiatives that inspire colleagues and empower learners to achieve exceptional outcomes.

In this high-impact role, you will:

• Shape and drive an ambitious quality strategy that ensures outstanding teaching, learning, and assessment.

• Lead faculty review, monitoring, and improvement processes—ensuring accountability, high expectations and consistent excellence.

• Influence curriculum development so that all learners benefit from challenging, industry-relevant programmes.

• Oversee key quality processes including Self-Assessment, Quality Improvement Planning, internal/external verification, and the At-Risk process.

• Champion learner voice, inclusion, and equality and diversity—ensuring every learner feels seen, supported, and set up for success.

• Work collaboratively with Awarding Bodies to ensure smooth, accurate and timely communication.

• Support faculty leadership teams with reliable data, insightful analysis, and interventions that drive improvement.

• Inspire teams you work with through coaching and support with professional development.

You will bring:

• Credibility as a degree educated, experienced qualified teacher and quality professional, with a passion for continuous improvement.

• A strong background in quality assurance within the FE sector.

• Excellent organisational, analytical, and leadership skills.

• The ability to motivate teams, navigate change, and influence at all levels.

• Experience of working with key FE systems such as ProAchieve, ProMonitor and ProSolution.

If you are energised by the idea of shaping quality, collaborating with high-performing curriculum teams and making a tangible difference to learner experience, this is the role for you.

Why Join Us?

At Middlesbrough College, you will be part of a forward-thinking, fast paced environment built on our core values: Aim High, Work Hard, Take Responsibility, Do What’s Right, Respect Others, Challenge Yourself, and Take Pride.

We offer:

• 36 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• Teachers’ Pension Scheme

• Genuine opportunities to gain experience, influence and drive excellence.

• Free on-site gym.

• Employee Assistance Programme that supports you and your family.

• Access to discounted hair and beauty treatments at our onsite salon.

• College benefit scheme – College Extras, up to 15% cashback at top retailers & restaurants, discounted gift cards for big brands, home & tech upgrades via salary sacrifice, Cycle to Work scheme.

Please see the full job description here.  Associate Director of Quality  If you would like to discuss this vacancy please contact Ollie Rodley oc.rodley@mbro.ac.uk

Safeguarding Our Students

Middlesbrough College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all students. All staff are expected to share this commitment. If you’re successful, you’ll be required to complete thorough pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. All posts at Middlesbrough College involve regulated activity and are therefore exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (amended 2013 and 2020)) mean that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. The MOJ’s guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications, related exceptions and further information.

Please be aware that it is a Criminal offence to apply for this post if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.

Right to work

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Recruitment Process

Applications are shortlisted for interview as they are received, and so early application is encouraged. We reserve the right to commence the interview process and close the vacancy prior to this date.

Equality & Diversity

Middlesbrough College is an equal opportunities employer, committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is valued. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and make recruitment decisions based on skills and experience. As a Disability Confident employer, we actively support applicants with disabilities.