THE DETAILS:
- Location: Swansea, SA2 8QF
- Subject: Further Education
- Hours: Full time
- Contract: Permanent
- Salary Type: Annual
- Language: English
- Closing Date: 06 August, 2023 12:00 AM
This job application date has now expired.
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:
This exciting new role will be fundamental in establishing the National Centre for Digital Skills & Innovation. The ambition for the National Centre is to promote the College's longstanding, and future, work in developing digital and technological skills advancements, and to provide a platform and creative space for future digital skills development and innovation. Significantly, the National Centre will allow industry to interact with the College, its learners, academic teams, and wider stakeholders, ensuring that the skills that we collaboratively create are fit for purpose, future proofed and industry approved.
This role will build on the work of the College's Digital Employer Board, which has seen leading Welsh businesses guide the College's digital provision, shaping curriculum, enabling our learners to have cutting-edge skills.
This work has generated significant results. Hundreds of individuals have been upskilled over the past two years; new apprenticeship programmes have been developed in areas such as data analytics, cyber security, digital application support, software, digital learning design and digital social media. The strength of this work has seen the College be externally validated - July 2021 saw the College crowned the AAC UK Digital Apprenticeship Provider of the Year.
The College now seeks a digital lead to drive further skills innovation and growth for the benefit of learners, employers and the communities that we serve.
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.
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).
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:
This exciting new role will be fundamental in establishing the National Centre for Digital Skills & Innovation. The ambition for the National Centre is to promote the College's longstanding, and future, work in developing digital and technological skills advancements, and to provide a platform and creative space for future digital skills development and innovation. Significantly, the National Centre will allow industry to interact with the College, its learners, academic teams, and wider stakeholders, ensuring that the skills that we collaboratively create are fit for purpose, future proofed and industry approved.
This role will build on the work of the College's Digital Employer Board, which has seen leading Welsh businesses guide the College's digital provision, shaping curriculum, enabling our learners to have cutting-edge skills.
This work has generated significant results. Hundreds of individuals have been upskilled over the past two years; new apprenticeship programmes have been developed in areas such as data analytics, cyber security, digital application support, software, digital learning design and digital social media. The strength of this work has seen the College be externally validated - July 2021 saw the College crowned the AAC UK Digital Apprenticeship Provider of the Year.
The College now seeks a digital lead to drive further skills innovation and growth for the benefit of learners, employers and the communities that we serve.
- Full-time: 37 hours per week
- Permanent
- Salary: £43,755 - £44,906 per annum
- Sketty Hall, Swansea (SA2)
- To lead the establishment and activities of the National Centre for Digital Skills & Innovation, enhancing the College's portfolio of ICT, Computing and Digital courses in line with regional and national skill needs
- To help support the Strategic Digital Vision Group's aim “to ensure all the digital systems support the College's core business in the most effective and efficient way”
- To support and develop the College's Enhanced ICT Programme/Digital Academy and assist with Work placements through industry employer links
- Computer related degree or equivalent
- Experience of working within the digital industry
- Proven competence and experience in delivering ICT / Computing / Digital programmes
- Exceptional and confident presentation, negotiation, interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to lead projects
- 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, and the college is closed for two weeks over the Christmas period
- 2 staff well-being days
- A Local Government Pension Scheme with an average employer contribution of 21% (2023)
- Discounted study opportunities on College programmes
- Access to staff fitness trainer/nutritionist/exercise classes
- View more benefits here: https://www.gcs.ac.uk/recruitment/benefits-and-wellbeing
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.
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).