Quality Improvement Officer
Posted 1 week ago by Fife Council
£85,047 Per year
Undetermined
Hybrid
Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary: The Quality Improvement Officer role is a temporary position based in Fife, Scotland, focused on enhancing educational quality across various school sectors. The officer will oversee strategic priorities, promote collaboration, and ensure effective quality assurance processes. This position requires strong leadership and interpersonal skills, along with experience in educational settings. The role allows for blended working arrangements, combining remote work with occasional office attendance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Shared responsibility for quality assurance and quality improvement of schools across cluster areas.
- Oversee the development and implementation of identified strategic priority areas, focusing on performance and continuous improvement.
- Promote a culture of collaboration through the Self-Improving Networked Learning System.
- Plan, coordinate, and evaluate professional learning and networking opportunities.
- Engage with and influence partners and stakeholders on key strategic issues.
- Ensure robust systems and processes for quality assurance within the directorate.
- Provide high-quality strategic analysis of key evidence to support decision-making.
Key Skills:
- High levels of interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Experience of leading and managing self-evaluation and quality improvement.
- Experience of leading strategic change within educational settings.
- Degree or appropriate equivalent qualification (post-graduate qualification desirable).
- Membership of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme through Disclosure Scotland required.
Salary (Rate): £85,047.00 yearly
City: Glenrothes
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Job Details Contract Type: Temporary for 2 years Salary: Q01 - Q03 £76,218 - £85,047 (subject to salary increase in August 2026) Working Pattern: 35 hours per week Location: Fife House, Glenrothes Improving Learning & Teaching. Meeting Learners’ Needs. Strengthening Curriculum Pathways.
You will be required to:
- Shared responsibility for quality assurance and quality improvement of schools across cluster areas.
- Oversee the development and implementation of the identified strategic priority area(s), focusing on improved performance, innovation, sharing of learning, and continuous improvement.
- To promote a culture of collaboration across the Directorate through the Self-Improving Networked Learning System.
- Plan, co-ordinate and evaluate professional learning and networking opportunities (working with local and national partners) to support continuous improvement across early years, primary, special and secondary sectors.
- Engage with and influence partners and stakeholders on key strategic issues; broker and share knowledge to improve outcomes for children and young people, and represent the directorate as required.
- Ensure robust systems and processes are in place to support quality assurance processes within the directorate, ensuring the highest quality of performance and management information, specifically in relation to strategic areas of responsibility.
- Provide high-quality strategic analysis of key evidence to strengthen the evidence base for decision-making and to support and challenge services and establishments to improve within strategic areas of responsibility.
Qualifications, Registration and Skill Requirements High levels of interpersonal and leadership skills. Experience of leading and managing self-evaluation and quality improvement. Experience of leading strategic change within educational settings. Degree or appropriate equivalent qualification (post-graduate qualification desirable). Before confirming to your appointment, you will be required to obtain Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland and become a member of the relevant PVG scheme.
As a progressive employer, we offer the opportunity to work in this role as a “blended working” arrangement with home-working opportunities and occasional office-working as required. While the significant part of the role can and will be carried out remotely, candidates should be able to travel to and attend office locations in Fife as required.
For further information please contact: Angela Logue - Angela.Logue@fife.gov.uk