Academic Quality and Standards Officer

About the role
The Academic Quality and Standards Officer supports programme and module approval, monitoring and review. The role underpins support mechanisms for academic standards and quality assurance within each faculty, with a view to identifying issues that might have a wider impact for Queen Mary. The post holder works collaboratively with colleagues across the institution.

About you
You have experience of quality assurance in an education setting, ideally in higher education, and knowledge of current sector issues and the regulatory environment. You have experience of the management, development and implementation of policies and procedures in teaching and learning. You have experience of committee work at senior level, with the ability to manage and deliver complex agendas while working to tight deadlines. You have proven analytical and problem-solving capabilities, and strong communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to write cogently and fluently.

About the Directorate
Governance and Legal Services comprises expert teams in governance, compliance, policy, casework and legal, working with a common purpose to protect the University’s interests whilst enabling innovation and the achievement of the University’s objectives. The Directorate works collaboratively across the university community to develop awareness of university policy and regulations, legal issues and external compliance.

About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

The post is based at Department W in Whitechapel, London. It is a full-time, permanent appointment. The starting salary will be Grade 5, in the range of £42,405 - £49,785 per annum (pro-rata), inclusive of London Allowance.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Simon Hayter, Head of Academic Quality and Standards at s.n.hayter@qmul.ac.uk.

The closing date for applications is 15th October 2023. Interviews are expected to be held shortly after.

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