Manager: Learning for Life
Part time - 0.6fte
Salary - £23,040 pa (Equivalent to M3 Teaching Scale)
Closing date - 5pm on Monday 23 November 2026


Kent Refugee Action Network’s main focus is to support separated young refugees and asylum seekers on their journey of integrating into communities across Kent, through their ups and downs.

KRAN support is multi-faceted and delivered by teams committed to providing young people with asafe, positive space and support for them to succeed, while enabling communities to help themintegrate well.

We are looking for an exceptional individual to manage the Learning for Life Team and ensure thequality and effectiveness of our learning for life provision, to deliver on our Virtual Schools Kent agreement.

JOB DESCRIPTION
Role Summary

You will lead KRAN’s delivery of Learning for Life classes and curriculum, ensuring safe and effectiveoperation through your Learning for Life team.

The Learning for Life Team delivers classes across three different hubs in Canterbury and Folkestone to support new arrivals of refugees and asylum seeking young people in care to access mainstream education, build life skills and integrate well into communities.

The role will require attendance at KRAN hubs from Monday - Thursday. You will be responsible for four excellent teachers and three dedicated Teaching Assistants, who work term time only, unless additional activities are organised during schools holidays.

Annual Leave would need to be taken during the school holidays.

Job Responsibilities

1) Operational Performance
● Maintain the highest standards of curriculum content and quality delivery of Learning for
Life classes, attuned to the needs of young people and developments in the sector, across our main and orbital hubs in Kent
● Troubleshooting, and ensuring adequate cover for classes across hubs with staff andvolunteers, and offer opportunities for peer reflective learning and continuous improvement of teaching staff.
● Liaise with the Activities and Wellbeing Coordinator to organise enrichment activities and experiences with external partners
● Monitor and evaluate the impact of our work, with our Impact and Insight Specialist ensuring accurate data collection that is

GDPR compliant, captures progression including PEP’s, with regular reporting to the CEO and Board

2) Safeguarding and Risk Management
● Ensure service-related safeguarding issues appropriately managed in relation to Learning for Life, and reporting on them to the Safeguarding lead, sharing learnings and delivering
improvements
● Establish, maintain, and ensure robust risk management practices for young people and
ensure regular reviews in line with organisational developments, best practice and statutory requirements
● Liaise with Senior Management and case work team as part of early intervention and liaise with Social Workers, PA’s and VSK as appropriate, attending weekly risk meetings as
required.

3) People and Stakeholder Management
● Manage the performance of the Learning for Life team for quality and continuity of service, while ensuring effective collaboration with other team’s staff and partners as required
● Identify and build capabilities of team members, sessionalstaff and volunteers to maintain optimum performance, being inclusive in approach and fair in actions
● Building effective, positive engagement with external partners,such asliaising with local councils and partners, including as a critical friend
● Liaise with Senior Managers, and other staff as required within KRAN and report to the Board of Trustees on a quarterly basis.

Qualifications and Experience
● Under the current VSK contract the candidate will need to have a teaching qualification as essential: QTS or PGCE, and a TEFL qualification would be desirable.
● Proficiency in a similar role as an operations manager or manager within the education sector, demonstrating capability in thinking strategically and delivering for optimal
performance
● Strong track record in developing and implementing curriculum development and quality assurance
● Ability to demonstrate core management competencies in people and performance management.
● Competence in sensitive, support engagement with asylum seekers or other vulnerable young people effectively addressing their educational needs
● Well-developed capabilities in supporting organisations around compliance across a range of areas: Safeguarding, HR, Health and Safety, GDPR
● An ability to initiate and build relationships with people in an open, friendly, and accepting manner, engaging sensitively with our young people, productively with external partners and
supporting team members to develop
● Comfort with adapting and adjusting to multiple demands, emerging priorities and the need to change
● An ability to work in line with the values of KRAN as an empowering, holistic, approachable and non-judgemental service provider
● Sound IT skills and capable of using databases system
● Preferably, valued engagement in the operations of a charity or being on a trustee board.