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Quality and Partnerships Manager

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater) (GB)
Salary
£43,205 - £50,585 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Closing date
21 Nov 2024
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Academic Discipline
Life sciences
Job Type
Professional Services
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

Job Details

About Us

The Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine is seeking a Quality and Partnerships Manager. The role is based within Faculty Education Services (FES) which coordinates all aspects of programme and student administration for more than 100 undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and supports over 7000 students.

 

The Quality Assurance (QA) team manage and coordinate the adherence of all programmes to both College and professional regulatory and compliance requirements. The work includes internal and external reviews, annual monitoring and review, curriculum development, statutory reporting (for some programmes), evaluation and feedback coordination, collaborative partnership development and monitoring and QA governance.

About the role

Adopting a proactive and flexible approach, the role holder will lead and coordinate activity for the partnership and collaborative provision arrangements across the Faculty. This post will project manage work with academic partners, from initial partnership set-up, including co-ordination of contracts, through to ongoing maintenance of their quality assurance and academic standards. It may involve the management of ad hoc working groups, committee servicing and participation, internal and external quality reviews, working collaboratively with a broad range of stakeholders, including the production of timely, comprehensive documentation.

 

The postholder will ensure appropriate communication and liaison with colleagues across King’s and the partner, providing advice and guidance to enable reporting and monitoring requirements to be met. There will be a requirement for the post holder to travel to partner institutions, which may be both UK-based or overseas.  Direct experience of collaborative provision and quality assurance in higher education, and the ability to expertly advise with reference to the UK Quality Code is essential.

 

The postholder will also be expected to undertake some of the cyclical quality assurance requirements of an HEI – this will require independence, self-motivation and an understanding of annual educational timelines. There may be a need, on occasion, to represent the QA team at internal or external meetings.

 

This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

 

Essential criteria

  1. Bachelor or equivalent degree
  2. Excellent communication and presentation skills; demonstrable ability to present information clearly, accurately and concisely to diverse stakeholders
  3. Data literacy skills and attention to detail with methodical, exacting standards of written and numerical accuracy
  4. Experience of reviewing and producing policy or procedural documentation and report writing
  5. Able to interpret and apply College and programme regulations and maintain up to date knowledge of external statutory compliance obligations
  6. Experienced in the application of collaborative provision quality assurance in an HE context, with reference to the UK Quality Code
  7. Proactive and able to work independently and as a team to meet deadlines across competing priorities and provide solutions to problems.
  8. Experience of forming professional networks and able to negotiate and influence across organisational boundaries to implement positive change

Desirable criteria

  1. Previous experience of working in a health and sciences environment in HE and producing quality assurance reports
  2. Experience of programme governance and delivering professional committee servicing
  3. Evidence of continued professional training or development
  4. IT experience, across all Microsoft packages; with significant experience of databases (student records systems)
  5. Work to high professional standards with integrity, honesty, and confidentiality

Further Information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

 

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

 

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘ How we Recruit’ pages.

 

Interviews are due to be held during December.

 

We are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.

Company

King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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