Job Title: Academic Quality Officer
Grade and Salary: Grade 6: £31,236-£36,636
FTE and working pattern: 1 FTE- full time (35 hours per week) open-ended. Opportunity for a flexible working pattern, with support for some remote working (3 days on campus).
Our Team:
Organisation Name: Academic Quality, within Registry and Academic Support Directorate.
The Global Registry and Academic Support Directorate supports our students and staff colleagues across the full student life-cycle from enrolment to graduation. The Directorate has responsibility as the definitive record-keeper of all student information and programme and course details, and leading services that help students settle and stay at the University with professional help and advice, through a range of wellbeing services.
It supports academic and professional services staff across the University in a number of areas, including: academic, institutional and student-related Regulations and Policies and global, national and institutional quality matters. It delivers these services through four Divisions, each managed by a Global Head, and two Heads of Campus Registry:
The Academic Quality Division consists of three teams: Quality Assurance; Academic Enhancement; Accreditation and Academic Partnerships. The work of the Academic Quality Officer will involve collaboration across all three teams, with the majority of tasks related to the Quality Assurance team.
The Academic Quality Team is responsible for strategy and policy development and the provision of advice, guidance and support in the relation to the assurance and enhancement of academic standards, the quality of taught programmes and the quality of the student learning experience, across the wider, global University (ie, for all academic provision delivered at all five campus locations and by all study modes including via partnership arrangements and online).
Purpose of Role:
The Academic Quality Officer will be responsible for undertaking key quality assurance activities on behalf of the University, particularly in relation to Academic Review, Annual Monitoring and Review, support for the Learning and Teaching Academic Operations Committee, Examination Board processes and guidelines. The role-holder will be responsible for the drafting of new, reviewing and revising of existing, policies and procedures. They will take responsibility for providing an integrated, coherent approach across all modes and locations to maintaining and assuring the quality and academic standards of the University’s provision.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Education, Qualifications & Experience:
These are the criteria on which the short-listing and recruitment selection will be made:
Essential
Desirable
How to Apply
Please submit your CV & covering letter via the Heriot-Watt online recruitment page.
Applications can be submitted up to 11:55pm (UK time) on Sunday 26th April.
For any enquiries about this position, please contact Helen Crosby, RAS Quality Assurance Manager- h.a.crosby@hw.ac.uk
About Heriot-Watt University
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