Quality Assurance Officer

Chiswick Park Campus

Richmond American University London is seeking to appoint a highly motived and enthusiastic Quality Assurance Officer to support its Quality Assurance operations.

This role requires experience and proficiency with administrative practices, excellent Microsoft Office skills and the confidence to work autonomously across diverse areas of responsibility. The Quality Assurance team works with faculty, administrators and leadership across the University. The Quality Assurance Officer serves as a front-line point of contact for internal and external colleagues, coordinates logistics for panel events and committee meetings and serves as support and key record-keeper for related outcomes and actions.

It is desirable that candidates will bring experience of working in an administrative role at an institution of further or higher education but we will also welcome applications from well-organised, capable administrators with experience outside of the higher education sector.  Richmond is an equal opportunities employer.

The Quality Assurance Officer post reports directly to the Quality Assurance Manager, interfaces with the Deputy Registrar - Quality Assurance and Collaborative Provision, and will share responsibility for the unit's administrative function with a second administrator. The central function of the Quality Assurance Officer role is to maintain accurate, well-organised and comprehensive documentation, in support of the University's duties to key external bodies, including (but not limited to) the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), the Office for Students (OfS) and the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE – US).

About Richmond American University London

Richmond American University London is a unique institution, global in outlook and in practice, diverse and cosmopolitan in its culture. A leading private and not-for-profit institution, we are dually accredited in both the United States, by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, and registered with the Office for Students in the UK. Our students receive both UK and US degrees, bringing together the best of British and American higher education.

Operating in London since 1972, our mission is to educate and inform future generations by providing them with the knowledge and support to think critically, the freedom to challenge assumptions and the skills to work with others. Our distinctive, multi-disciplinary Liberal Arts degree programmes offer a holistic approach to teaching and learning that focuses on developing academic and personal skills to enable our students to make positive contributions through employment, personal development, and public service after graduation.

Following the move to our new state-of-the-art campus in Chiswick Park, West London, we are developing a new strategy that will see the University grow and further diversify its student body, broaden and diversify is academic offer and expand its international partnerships.

Richmond is an equal opportunities employer; a Basic DBS check is required for this position. To review the full job-description, please visit: https://www.richmond.ac.uk/about-richmond/work-for-us/

Closing date: 4 March 2024 at 17:00

Interview date: 12 March 2024

To apply for this role, please email your CV and cover letter, together with details of two recent work-related references via the 'Apply' button above.

Please note that while submitted applications will be we are unable to provide individual feedback to applicants.

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