CIFS Programme Director

Job Title:          CIFS Programme Director

Reporting to:   Deputy Head of Cork & GIL Manager

Location:          Griffith College Cork

Job Type:         Part-time / Permanent, subject to 6 months probation

The Programme Director for Griffith College Cork’s International Language Programmes will lead the strategic and operational management of programme delivery, ensuring academic excellence, regulatory compliance, and an outstanding student experience. This role involves oversight of curriculum development, team leadership, scheduling, teaching quality, and learner engagement. The Programme Director will manage and support a team of lecturers, coordinate recruitment and appraisal activities, monitor teaching standards through observations and CPD, and maintain up-to-date course documentation. They will also liaise with accreditation bodies such as QQI, ACELS, and ILEP, ensure adherence to INIS requirements, and support students with academic progression and pastoral needs. The role includes collaboration with the GIL Manager and may require occasional travel to Griffith College Dublin.

Job Responsibilities:

Programme Coordination

• Preparation of timetables, induction and classroom scheduling.
• Ongoing communication with module leaders, ensuring there is no delay in the availability of class notes, sample questions, assignment titles, etc.
• Hold regular meetings with your team and assist in the resolution of any problems emerging at an early stage, to ensure the learners have an excellent learning experience.
• Encourage the team to engage with students via forum on Moodle and provide training, where necessary.
• Manage learner feedback and pass on such feedback to the GIL Manager, at regular intervals
• Ensure that module descriptors, course handbooks, and programme schedules are kept up-to-date and made available to all involved.
• Assist the team with any external / pastoral issues.
• Assist in the recruitment and selection of new teachers/lecturers for the programmes, to include subject teaching/lecturing staff.
• Manage a team of teachers/lecturers, ensuring to the best of your ability that teachers are effectively delivering a high-quality programme. 
• Arrange a teaching observation & appraisal schedule and observe the teaching team, offering critical and meaningful feedback.
• Create regular CPD sessions.
• Ensure that teaching administration tasks are carried out, as expected.
• Attendance recording in line with INIS requirements.
• Maintain ACELS & ILEP regulations at all times and keep up to date with new policies.
• Assist and manage the social coordinator and exams officer.
• Fulfil daily administrative tasks that allow for the smooth running of the programme
• Fulfil regular administrative tasks associated with the requirements of external accreditation bodies such as QQI.
• Assisting students with applications to Higher education institutions.
• Cover teaching when required

Curriculum Development

• With the Manager of GIL, ensure that course content is relevant and of high quality. Develop Curriculum material, when required.
• Assist the GIL Manager in EAP Pre-Sessional and In-Sessional Curriculum Development
• Offer guidance to the GIL teams, regarding appropriate EAP provision. This will involve occasional visits to Griffith College Dublin.

Requirements:

• Possess a minimum level 9 (Master's) qualification in English Language teaching, or equivalent.
• Have evidence of CPD.
• Strong leadership with excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Effective time management, strong attention to detail, ability to multitask.
• Experience in working with diverse cultures.
• A minimum of 5 years teaching experience within Foundation and or Undergraduate required with CELTA qualification.
• Experience of Curriculum Development.
• Be highly organised with meticulous attention to detail.
• Have excellent interpersonal skills.

About Griffith College

Griffith College is a welcoming, ambitious and people-focused institution where the quality of the working environment is shaped as much by the people as by the purpose. Across our campuses in Dublin, Cork and Limerick, colleagues work in supportive teams where professionalism, mutual respect and collaboration are part of everyday life. Founded in 1974, Griffith College is Ireland’s largest independent third-level institution, with a community of over 8,000 students across its campuses. Nestled on a leafy five-acre campus on Wellington Road, just moments from Cork city centre, our campus is a welcoming and accessible space where staff and students alike can truly thrive.

We take pride in our strong sense of community, our teams are approachable, supportive, and always ready to lend a hand. Open communication and mutual respect are at the heart of everything we do, fostering a collaborative environment where everyone’s voice is valued.

We value initiative, encourage ideas, and actively support professional growth. Whether your role is academic, operational or professional services, you will have the opportunity to build a fulfilling career while contributing to an organisation that has real impact on the lives of students from Ireland and across the world, working alongside people who genuinely care about what they do and who they work with.

Our Vision

"To be recognised among the leading, innovative and socially enterprising of Ireland’s universities”

Why work for Griffith College?

• Competitive salary package
  
• Access to healthcare plans for employees and their families
• Enhanced maternity leave pay

• Flexible working arrangements in line with the College's remote working policy
• Access to ongoing Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes, up to Doctorate level
• Subsidised College programmes to support career development and upskilling.
• Opportunities for staff mobility through Erasmus+ and other international mobility programmes

• Mental Health and Wellbeing supports available
• Cycle to Work scheme

• Vibrant, multidisciplinary and multicultural learning environment
• Inclusive and diverse community
• Innovative and agile place to work
• Welcoming environment committed to both learner and staff development
• Staff discounts and offers from a wide range of retailers and service providers
• Preferential accommodation rates during the summer period for staff and for friends and family of staff at Griffith Rooms in Dublin.
• Year-round staff social and well-being events, including BBQs, coffee mornings, wellness talks, EDI events, and more

• Free parking facilities.

This job description is not to be regarded as exclusive or exhaustive. It is intended as an outline of proposed areas of activity and will be amended in light of the changing environment within the Faculty and the College.

Griffith College is an equal opportunities employer. Candidates must be eligible to work full-time for any employer in Ireland.