Job Description
Contract terms
Starting salary: PO8 (£60,468 – £63,879)
Work Location: Wood Green Library, 187-197A High Rd, London N22 6XD
Hours per week: 36 per week
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: Sunday, 26th May 2024 at 23:59
About Haringey
Haringey Council is one of 32 boroughs in London. Haringey is an extremely diverse borough, and the Council has set clear ambitious objectives through its borough plan to make Haringey a better place to live, encourage investment and create opportunities that all can share. Haringey’s vision for the future is one of sustainable growth, in housing and jobs and on helping our residents and businesses take advantage of that growth. We have got huge ambitions for Haringey. As the shape of local government continues to change, we are determined to rise to the challenge and find new ways to ensure that our residents enjoy the best opportunities in life. Working at Haringey gives you the opportunity to play a part in meeting those ambitions on behalf of everyone who calls the borough their home.
About The Role
The exciting new role of Principal of Haringey Learns provides strategic and operational leadership for adult community education in Haringey, managing Haringey Learns the adult education and community learning service for Haringey Council. This service delivers accredited and non-accredited (tailored) provision across the borough, to enable residents to flourish through developing transferable and employability skills, improving health and wellbeing, building stronger communities, supporting family learning, and enabling progression to further training, career development and employment. The role sits within Haringey Council’s Inclusive Economy lead and will contribute to the delivery of Opportunity Haringey, the inclusive economy development plan for the borough. The role will ensure a successful working partnership between Haringey Learns, Haringey Works, other council services and external stakeholders, to fulfil the ambitions of Opportunity Haringey, and in particular engage and support residents from diverse and disadvantaged communities to upskill and move towards good work and careers.
About The Team
The role of Principal is to lead the senior team of managers within Haringey Council’s adult education service – a management team consisting of the Quality Manager, the Curriculum Managers, the Business Manager, and specialist project managers. The wider family of Haringey Learns is made up of tutors and support staff to help learners develop the skills they need to flourish. This role also works with a wider network of colleagues within the Inclusive Economy team, including senior managers from Haringey Works and Economic Development.
About You
The role provides strategic leadership and direction for Haringey Learns, a successful adult community education provision that is innovative and responsive to the needs of local communities and the priorities of Haringey Council and our funders, ensuring the development of curriculum interventions that are designed and delivered to meet these needs and priorities. The role leads a service that improves residents’ skills and ambitions and so enable them to flourish, developing strategies that engage and support residents across the borough, in particular in areas of high disadvantage. The role will ensure a financially sustainable adult education service, including securing funding from the Greater London Authority, the Education & Skills Funding Agency, as well as identifying other sources of income streams, ensuring all compliance and reporting requirements are met. The role requires leadership of collaboration with external and internal partners in ensuring a joined-up approach to employment and skills across the borough and, in particular, to contribute to improving prosperity in Haringey’s priority regeneration areas.
Working for Haringey
At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.