Exec Director: People & Organisational Development

We’re looking for a Executive Director: People and Organisational Development to join us on our journey to excellence! It is an exciting time to join #TeamTameside. You will be a valued member of our Senior Leadership Team and will play a key role in our mission to transform lives and be the skills engine for our Tameside community. Our 2025-2030 strategic plan outlines the importance we place on recruiting, valuing and retaining good people and our absolute commitment to being an inclusive College, working hard to remove barriers to education particularly social and educational disadvantage.

You will have access to the relevant pension scheme with a generous employer contribution. You’ll enjoy some really great benefit’s too, for example, a great holiday allowance of 33 days which doesn’t include bank holidays and up to 5 efficiency days at Christmas, Costa Coffee on site, Free on site Gym at Beaufort Road, onsite bakery products at Tameside One, dining experiences at our Restaurant at Tameside One, retail discounts, a cycle to work scheme, a cash health care plan via simply health and a savings club via the Manchester Credit Union.

What you’ll need: - You’ll need to be enthusiastic, resilient and are a highly motivated individual with relevant Senior Leadership experience. You will be appropriately qualified and it would also be desirable that you have a Masters qualification and a CIPD qualification and Chartered membership. You’ll need significant experience of working in a HR / people leadership role at a senior level. It is desirable this has been gained within further education or other public service.

Here’s the standard bit: - The successful candidate will work closely with the Deputy Principal and Chief Finance and Infrastructure Officer to formulate our people focused strategies that ensure our people establishment is well planned, well managed and well supported to deliver our strategic priorities. Outstanding leadership and management skills are required to ensure that our people strategies are effective in supporting and developing staff so that their performance ensures that students achieve their full potential and the College is excellent in everything it does. You will continue to shape our values driven culture that promotes inclusion, belonging, engagement, teamwork, wellbeing, personal growth and recognises individual and team achievement. Staff engagement will be fundamental in our approach to driving continuous improvement and being an employer of choice. Your inspired leadership will drive our ambition for our staff to achieve their full potential. You will design and deliver change and development programmes that strengthen the organisational capability, build leadership excellence and enable staff to be confident and agile in their work. You will oversee high quality, supportive people policies and practices, ensuring the College meets all statutory and regulatory standards, including safeguarding, and you will lead on related audit and inspection activity.

The successful candidate will be an active and effective member of the College’s SLT and make a positive contribution to the leadership of the College. They will provide leadership, direction, support and co-ordination of services within their remit.

About us: Tameside College in Ashton-Under-Lyne Greater Manchester is a diverse and vibrant further education college that offers a wide range of courses from entry level to A level and advanced level vocational study programmes, Apprenticeships and adult courses up to degree Level. We aim to give all our students an exceptional experience. We believe in excellence and back that up with high expectations, a superb working environment (as part of the Vision Tameside £100 million+ accommodation strategy) and outstanding teaching. We also believe that attending college is about more than achieving a qualification, important though that is. This is why we aim to give learners every opportunity to develop their full potential in a supportive and friendly environment.

Tameside College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all learners and expects all staff to share this commitment. Employment at Tameside College is subject to an Enhanced DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) Check via the Disclosure and Barring Service and any post in regulated activity will also be subject to an additional barred list check. Tameside College will meet the costs associated with this.

Please note Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance requires us to carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This is to enables us to identify any incidents or issues which we might want to explore at interview with you. Once shortlisting has taken place, this search will be carried out for all candidates who are invited to attend an interview.

Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive we are unfortunately not able to respond to each applicant. If you have not been called for interview within 3 weeks of the closing date, you should assume that on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

Interviews are due to take place on Tuesday 15th December.

Subject to the volume of applications we may decide to close the vacancy earlier than advertised.

Come join us on our journey to outstanding!

Recruitment Agencies: We are not utilising the service of recruitment agencies for this vacancy and will accept direct applications only. Unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a gift. We will not be subject to or liable under your terms and conditions for agency fees.