About the role:
Please note we don't have a fixed closing date but instead will close the role when we have sufficient applicants to interview so apply soon to not miss out!
We are seeking an experienced Quality Improvement Manager to lead the delivery of high standards across our curriculum areas. In this pivotal role, you will implement and monitor quality assurance processes that drive continuous improvement in teaching, learning and assessment, ensuring an outstanding learner experience. You will work collaboratively with Directors and Curriculum Managers to embed a robust quality cycle, providing clear, accurate information to support performance improvement and readiness for audits and external reviews.
You will use your strong educational leadership background to guide staff through improvement strategies, analyse performance data, and support curriculum development to raise achievement across study programmes and apprenticeships. With excellent communication, organisational skills and the ability to motivate others, you will play a key role in shaping high expectations and consistent standards across the college, influencing CPD, learning walks, and lesson observations to deliver measurable impact.
As Quality Improvement Manager, you will champion a culture of continuous improvement across the college, ensuring that quality standards are consistently met and exceeded. You will lead on delivering the full quality cycle, using evidence-based approaches to identify strengths, address areas for development, and implement impactful strategies that raise performance and enhance the learner experience. This includes driving actions from learning walks, observations, curriculum reviews, and learner voice feedback to secure meaningful, measurable improvements across all curriculum areas
About The Company
About Us
The College
London South East Colleges (LSEC) is one of Londons largest and most successful further education providers, with seven campuses across Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and Lambeth and around 1,000 staff. Each year, we support more than 13,000 students through a wide portfolio of vocational courses, apprenticeships and other programmes that are closely aligned to employer and industry need.
What brings people to work here, and keeps them here, is the sense of purpose. We exist to change lives through learning, and that ambition runs through everything we do. Our staff work with learners from all backgrounds, many of whom face significant barriers, and play a direct role in improving social mobility and life chances across south east London and beyond.
We are committed to developing our people. This includes high-quality professional development, leadership and management training, and clear opportunities for progression across the College and the wider Group. We encourage colleagues to develop their skills, share expertise and build long-term careers with us, supported by a culture that values collaboration, professionalism and continuous improvement.
We invest heavily in our learning environments, with modern facilities and strong partnerships with employers, universities and local communities. This enables our staff to focus on what matters most: delivering high-quality education and training that equips learners with the skills, confidence and resilience to succeed in work and in life.
LSEC is part of the Elevare Civic Education Group, which also sponsors London South East Academies Trust. The Trust is a growing and successful Multi-Academy Trust, currently comprising mainstream, special and alternative provision schools across Bromley, Bexley, Surrey, Sussex and Lambeth. This gives colleagues the opportunity to work within a genuinely joined-up education system, spanning schools, colleges and higher education.
The Group has also recently established the Elevare Education Foundation, a charity dedicated to supporting disadvantaged children and families across the region through targeted programmes and practical support. This reflects our wider civic mission and commitment to making a meaningful difference beyond our campuses.
With a combined turnover of around £130m and clear ambitions for growth and improvement, this is an organisation that is forward-looking, values expertise and encourages people to contribute ideas and shape the future. There has rarely been a more interesting time to join us.
London South East Colleges is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.