Executive Director of Education

Salary: Competitive

Closing date: 9am on Thursday 30 January 2025

Interviews: Wednesday 12 February 2025

Be part of our team!

Formed in 2017 following the merger of Bedford College and Tresham College, The Bedford College Group is now the largest provider of education in the South East Midlands, with over 18,000 students passing through our doors each year. Today, the Group is made up of a family of colleges across Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire, including Bedford College, Central Bedfordshire College, and Tresham College, among others. This is an exciting time for the Group, we are committed to ensuring significant improvements to our whole college infrastructure and have ambitious plans for our estate with a large capital development programme planned.

Dear Colleague,

Thank you for your interest in the role of Executive Director of Education at The Bedford College Group (TBCG). The Group is the 7th largest further education college group in the sector by income and comprises 7 distinct colleges with 3 further educational colleges, 2 sixth form colleges, 1 agricultural college and 1 national college for motorsport.

Our values are extremely important to us and keep the student at the heart of everything we do, but none more so than those of valuing teamwork, continuously improving, caring and inclusive, all of which sit at the heart of this role.

The successful candidate will have a proven track record as an inspirational leader who can demonstrate their achievement and commitment to improve quality of education throughout their career to date. The successful candidate will be part of the Executive team and will provide a clear vision and strategies to improve the educational excellence and ensure staff embed this in all they do.

To succeed in this role, you will come to us as an expert senior leader with significant experience at a senior leadership level within further education, in roles with a clear focus on quality, standards and educational performance. You will also possess a strong record of driving sustained improvements in learning and teaching, through innovative pedagogy and providing excellent and highly ambitious leadership.

You will be coming to TBCG at an extremely exciting period of change, with our new CEO having commenced in January 2024 with a passionate commitment to, and vision of excellence that will take us forward in the next stage of TBCG’s evolution.

Interested parties are strongly encouraged to contact our FE Associates recruitment partner, Jo.Johnston@fea.co.uk, to arrange an initial discussion prior to submitting an application.

With best wishes

Yiannis Koursis
Group Chief Executive

If you have the very special qualities and the passion to make a real a difference to the future of our students and business, then we would like to hear from you.

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We have appointed FE Associates to help us find the right person.  Prior to submitting an application, interested parties are advised to arrange an initial conversation with our FE Associates lead consultant, by emailing Jo.Johnston@fea.co.uk to discuss the role before the closing date.

Closing date: 9am on Thursday 30 January 2025

Interviews: Wednesday 12 February 2025

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