Commercial Manager

Salary: 47697 - 49256 Per Annum

Commercial Manager - Leadership & Management

About us:

Gower College Swansea is one of the largest colleges in Wales with a strong reputation for high quality teaching and learning. We have six campuses across the city with over 4,500 full time learners and 10,000 part time learners. We currently have a turnover of over £50 million making us a major employer in the region with approximately 1,000 staff.

At Gower College Swansea we are passionate about investing in our staff and looking after their wellbeing to ensure they feel supported in work and also at home.

The role:

Provide leadership, direction and support to a team of staff in Leadership & Management, Project Management and Business Improvement Techniques, managing activity to ensure high quality provision for learners and employers.

• Full time (37 hours per week)
• Permanent
• £47,697 - £49,256 per annum
• Jubilee Court, Swansea
• Informal enquiries: HR@gcs.ac.uk

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, motivate and inspire a team consisting of Curriculum & Quality Lead, Trainers, Tutor Assessors and IV's holding regular curriculum/subject area meetings.
• Delivery of annual reviews/delivery hours pertinent to curriculum clusters.
• Monitor the teams case load ensuring assessors are fully case loaded.
• Achieve Work Based Learning (Wales & England), Part Time FE funding, other funding routes (and commercial targets as agreed with the Line manager.
• Develop and deliver the full course offer, ensuring the offer is fit for purpose and responds to employer and national priorities e.g. essential skills policy, employability, ESDGC, equality and diversity, Welsh language.

About you:

• Teaching and learning qualification e.g. PGCE or willing to work towards
• Assessor Award and/or Internal Verifiers award or willing to work towards
• Proven track record of working with employers.
• Commercial knowledge, experience and understanding of industry, including training needs

Benefits for you:

• 37 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, and the college is closed for two weeks over the Christmas period
• A Local Government Pension Scheme with an average employer contribution of 21% (2023)
• 2 staff well-being days
• Access to staff fitness trainer/nutritionist/exercise classes
• View more benefits here: https://www.gcs.ac.uk/recruitment/staff-benefits-wellbeing

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We welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our organisation.

If you wish to continue your application journey using Welsh Language, please visit our Cymraeg site. We encourage Welsh Language applications as we recognise the importance of delivering services in Welsh, and the need to grow our bilingual workforce.

Gower College Swansea is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check and require registration with the Education Workforce Council for Wales.

Please note that we are expecting a high volume of applicants for this vacancy. If we do, we may close the post before the specified date, therefore an early application is recommended.

Appointments will normally be made to the bottom of the salary scale with annual increments on 1st August each year (subject to a start date before 1st February).