Academic Quality and Standards Manager

Governance, Quality Assurance and Student Casework

We’re here to create and harness knowledge, to deliver opportunity for everyone.

About the Role

This is an excellent opening for an Academic Quality and Standards Manager to join the Governance, Quality Assurance and Student Casework Department. This exciting opportunity involves working in the central team in the area of academic standards and quality, supporting the development and implementation of the University’s Quality Framework.

You will work with other members of the team to set and realise the objectives of the Governance, Quality Assurance and Student Casework unit (GQASC). Academic Quality and Standards Managers (AQSMs) provide professional support for Edge Hill University’s processes for programme approval (validation, including academic partnerships), monitoring and review, academic planning and internal quality audit. Collectively they also deliver a professional secretariat service for Academic Board, its committees and major sub committees in accordance with the University’s Articles of Governance.

For informal enquiries about this vacancy, please contact: Kelly Hand, Head of Academic Governance and Quality Assurance at handk@edgehill.ac.uk

About You

As Academic Quality and Standards Manager, you will have good working knowledge of national HE quality regulation and be: -

• Able to pay attention to detail and work with, analyse and communicate complex quantitative and qualitative data
• Excellent at writing reports in an academic context
• Able to develop and maintain effective working relationships
• Organised, efficient and proactive
• A Team player

At Edge Hill University we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.

Rewards & Benefits

• A minimum of 38 days annual leave per annum, (inclusive of bank holiday and University closure days)
• Free foreign language evening classes
• Discounted membership to our onsite state-of-the-art sport and leisure facilities
• Staff benefits scheme, which provides you with discounts across the high street, supermarket shopping, cinema tickets, dining out and more.
• Employee assistance programme with access to free confidential counselling sessions, legal & financial advice, and health & wellbeing resources.
• A wide range of development programmes to enhance your career.
• Beautiful award-winning on-campus working environment.
• Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme with our employer contribution of 17.8%

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About Us

At Edge Hill University we believe in the life changing opportunities knowledge can create. Since 1885, we’ve been creating access to knowledge for those who may not have had the opportunity to before.

Today, the effect we have has a far-reaching impact, not just for those who come to study here but for those who work, invest in, and live in our local communities too. So, if you’ve ever wondered if one person can make a difference, simply speak to our alumni, students, and award-winning staff.

Because for us education isn’t about how much you take in. It’s about what you take out into the world.

Inspiring minds and changing futures since 1885,Edge Hill University is “A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year” – Times Higher Education.