Uk Curriculum Portfolio Manager

Valenture Institute partners with the world’s leading education institutions to transform physical limitations into digital opportunities. We create new opportunities for students to choose an aspirational online learning experience by offering fully-supported online high school programmes. As a social enterprise, Valenture Institute is also committed to levelling the playing field and increasing access for all students through free curriculum offerings, extensive scholarship programs and blended learning micro schools in underprivileged communities.

The UK High School Portfolio Manager oversees all student experience support team members working on the Online High School. The Portfolio Manager owns the delivery and support model for FET or Senior Phase for the Online High School. They translate the support vision as directed by the Head of Student Experience into clear priorities and goals for their team. They are responsible for leading their team, providing day to day operational support, monitoring SLA and monitoring the quality of the support and teaching that the team provides. The UK Online High School Portfolio Manager role is focussed on people management and development and the holistic student experience for the Online High School as we seek to serve thousands of students across the globe.

Leadership and Culture
- Work with the Head of Student Experience, to build a culture of student experience, teaching excellence, collaboration and innovation
- Provide direction and leadership to direct reports in line with the Student Experience team’s priorities.
- Focus on the overall health and wellness of the team through coaching and development plans.
- Actively shape the culture of the team to provide high-quality education and pastoral care at scale.
- Monitor and report on key academics and support SLA’s for the Online High School.
- Oversee the academic and support quality for the FET or Senior Phase
- Recruit and retain exceptional academic and support staff, ensuring that Valenture is known for the quality of its teachers, mentors and leaders.
- Work with the Principal and Teaching and Learning Advisor to write and maintain all academic and support policies, including Teaching and Learning, Assessment and Reporting, Curriculum and the relevant sections of Student Handbooks.

Operations
- Ensure good collaboration and communication with the Product Division on all matters relating to timetabling, scheduling, capacity planning and process mapping.
- Support on process development and improvement, remove operational blockers and ensure that Student Experience Leads, Support Coaches and Teachers are enabled to provide efficient and effective support to students.
- Overseeing redundancy in the team and ensuring effective workforce management and capacity planning day to day and at established planning intervals.

Student Experience
- Oversee the academic and support quality for the Online High School for FET or Senior Phase.
- Work with the Head of Student Experience and the School Counsellor on continuously refining and improving our Pastoral Care offerings
- Guide the framework and content development for the Learning Compass programme.
- Ensure seamless collaboration between all departments working on the UK Online High School, namely Student Experience and the Learning Design, Learning Technology, Project Management and Admissions teams.
- Liaise with other teams on inter-departmental processes.

Student Progress Monitoring and Assessment:

- Work with the Principal, Teaching and Learning Advisor and School Counsellor to continuously assess and refine the Remediation Policy (RTI)
- Maintain the integrity of assessment data through ongoing quality assurance, moderation and data validation exercise

**Requirements**:

- A bachelor's degree in Education, Communication, Counselling or Psychology preferred.
- Teaching and or management experience at secondary school level, with either BEd or PGCE qualification is beneficial
- Customer support mindset
- Management and leadership experience is essential with demonstrated experience in mentoring and leading people. At least 3 years of experience.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Operationally savvy.
- A good feel for working with assessment data and operational data.
- A blend of academic, customer support and business skill sets is preferred.

Realities of the role:

- Valenture Institute is a fast-paced startup. We are not a traditional school We are reimagining schooling and precedent needs to be adopted only where it has proven to have great results. If you think that traditional schools have it all figured out, this is probably not the right role for you.
- Collaboration is the name of the game. We operate in highly specialised teams, and our ability to deliver an excellent student experience is premised on our team’s ability to collaborate, value the contributions of their teammates (including those in other tea