Curriculum Director
Maternity cover in the first instance, highly likely to become permanent
Full time
SFCA Leadership Scale point L2 – L4, currently £59,617 - £61,927, pending pay award
An opportunity has arisen to work at an Ofsted Outstanding sixth form college. Wyke Sixth Form College is recognised for its educational excellence, placed in the top 5% for progress at A level and ranked the second highest provider of students to Oxbridge in the Yorkshire and Humber region. The college’s reputation attracts students from across Kingston-upon-Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire. Wyke has grown significantly over the last decade, accommodating over2500 exclusively level three students on a modern £30M university-style campus. At Wyke, we put the student first and all decisions centre around staff working together to meet their best interests. 98% of our current teachers and support staff recommend working here. Come and join the amazing learning culture that creates “The Wyke Experience”.
The purpose of this role is to oversee all courses within the humanities and social sciences faculty, ensuring the development and maintenance of effective teaching and learning. This is a key leadership role in the College, where responsibility lies for implementing whole College aims and policies in day-to-day activity, ensuring the high quality of teaching and learning and clear communications throughout the faculty. The team of four Curriculum Directors are part of the wider College Leadership Team, working with colleagues in pastoral and support functions to ensure a great experience for our students.
The role also includes a cross-college responsibility. The Curriculum Director will work with the Assistant Principal to develop the range of opportunities and positive destinations for students through a staff-led pre-professional enrichment strategy. This role works across all four faculties and closely with the careers team within the college.
The Curriculum Director will have teaching responsibilities alongside the managerial role. They will drive standards of teaching and learning across the faculty through effective observation and scrutiny of classroom/Independent Directed Learning processes.
Wyke is looking to recruit a committed and inspiring curriculum leader to join these high performing and hardworking departments to make a difference to the lives of our students.
The successful candidate will:
• Be keen to embrace our culture of high standards and a have commitment to development.
• Be a well-qualified teacher, skilled in delivering engaging lessons that draw the best performance from students.
• Have the ability to build strong relationships with students and colleagues and understand the factors that lead to high levels of student achievement.
• Lead the Humanities and Social Science faculty to a high level of performance across all departments
• Develop the pre-professional pathways across all Wyke students
We offer a forward-thinking, welcoming college with supportive management and a modern environment. Benefits include a strong programme of staff development and membership of the Teachers Pension Scheme. We are lucky to work with great students who are here to learn and 98% of staff said they would recommend the College as a good place to work in the Summer 2025 Staff Pulse Survey. We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and we welcome applications from a diverse range of applicants. We would love our staff ethnicity and cultural profile to closely match the student population we serve.
The College takes safeguarding extremely seriously and a full range of pre-employment checks as set out in Keeping Children Safe in Education including a satisfactory enhanced DBS with barred list check and an online search will be required for this post. All posts at the College are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and it is an offence for those barred from working with children to even apply for a role at the College.
For further details and an application form please see below. If you have any queries about applying for the role or require paper copies of the information, please contact personnel@wyke.ac.uk, or call 01482 346347.
We warmly welcome pre-application visits or discussions. To arrange a visit or telephone call, please contact Sophie Green on sophie.green@wyke.ac.uk
The closing date for received applications is 12 noon on 10th October 2025
Interviews will be held on Wednesday 15th October 2025
