Director of Academic Registry and Teaching Excellence

Liverpool John Moores University is a proud civic institution, committed to widening participation, social mobility, and delivering education that transforms lives through high-quality teaching, inclusive learning, and strong student outcomes.

We are seeking an exceptional senior leader in a newly established role of Director of Academic Registry and Teaching Excellence. We are seeking a values-driven, credible, and influential leader with extensive senior experience in higher education, a deep understanding of the regulatory and policy landscape, and a strong track record of delivering institution-wide change that improves teaching quality, student outcomes, and equality of opportunity.

This is a rare opportunity to shape how academic governance, registry services, and learning and teaching excellence work together to deliver an outstanding, inclusive, and outcomes-focused student experience.

Reporting to the Registrar and Chief Operating Officer and the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Student Experience), the postholder will provide strategic, University-wide leadership across Academic Registry, academic quality, and teaching and learning excellence.

The role brings together academic governance, registry services, and teaching excellence to ensure that institutional frameworks, systems, and practice work coherently to support student success across the full student lifecycle.

The Director will position Academic Registry as a strategic enabler of inclusive teaching, curriculum quality, and student outcomes, ensuring that academic governance, policies, and processes actively support access, continuation, attainment, and progression for all learners.

Working in close partnership with senior academic colleagues, the Director will lead the delivery of the University’s Teaching, Learning and Student Success priorities, aligning learning design, assessment practice, academic regulations, and student support with institutional commitments on equality of opportunity and social mobility. The role will provide institutional leadership for engagement with the Office for Students (OfS), including oversight of regulatory compliance, outcomes-based monitoring, and the strategic delivery and evaluation of the University’s Access and Participation Plan (APP).

The postholder will have responsibility for safeguarding academic standards and the integrity of awards, while ensuring that teaching quality and student outcomes are evidenced through robust data, evaluation, and enhancement activity. They will lead LJMU’s institutional approach to the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), ensuring that TEF principles are embedded into ongoing enhancement rather than treated as a periodic exercise, and that the University presents a clear, credible narrative of teaching excellence and impact.

The Director will oversee the full student lifecycle across undergraduate, postgraduate taught, and postgraduate research provision, including partner delivery, ensuring that registry services, quality frameworks, and digital systems support effective academic delivery and a seamless student experience.

As a member of the University Leadership Team, the Director will lead high-performing professional teams, manage significant resources, and contribute to institution-wide strategy, transformation, and delivery.

Candidates will have proven success in delivering institution-wide initiatives that have improved student outcomes, teaching quality or regulatory compliance as well as extensive experience of external review and evaluation, for example, as an External Examiner, working directly with Professional Body Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies or as QAA Reviewer. They will also have extensive experience of working with the Office for Students regulatory framework and demonstrable leadership of Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) strategy, submissions, or institution-wide teaching excellence activity.

Demonstrable experience of driving through change in a large, complex organisation and an ability to explain and discuss education and student experience activities are also key.

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