Director of Education Administration and Student Support (Maternity Cover) - Open to current UC[...]

UCL Eastman Dental Institute; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational institution in Greater London is seeking a Senior Professional to provide high-level leadership and management for the delivery of a wide range of academic programs. You will lead a large team responsible for education administration and quality assurance, ensuring exceptional service to students. The role mandates significant experience in quality assurance processes and team management. This is a maternity cover, from March 2nd until December 2nd, offering extensive benefits including 41 days of holiday and a pension scheme.

Benefits

41 Days holiday (pro rata for part time)

Defined benefit pension scheme

On-site gym

Relocation scheme for certain posts

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering effective quality assurance processes.
• Proven ability to manage and nurture a large team.
• Experience working with external bodies to support compliance.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-level leadership and management support.
• Develop staff to enhance educational program management.
• Shape best practices across UCL regarding education services.

Skills

Experience in quality assurance processes

Leadership and team management

Communication skills

Job description

About the role

This is a key senior professional post within the IOE providing high-level leadership and management support for the effective operation and delivery of the faculty’s educational portfolio of academic programmes.

These include all undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral and teacher education courses. The post holder will lead a large team of over 90 fantastic professional staff responsible for the delivery of education administration, quality assurance and student support services associated with programmes across six large departments to 8, students.

A key element of the role is to develop staff to ensure that they can support the management of these programmes and provide the highest possible level of service to students.

This is a high-profile role across UCL, helping to shape and develop best practice with our colleagues in Student and Registry Services and the Vice-Provost Office for Education.

This post is open to current UCL employees only.

Interviews will be hold on Monday 12th January .

This post is available until 2nd December in the first instance.

About you

With significant experience of delivering effective quality assurance processes and systems and working with external bodies to support compliance, you will also have experience of managing and nurturing a large team to work to their best at providing multiple services to a wide range of stakeholders.

This post is offered as a maternity cover, from 2nd March to 2nd December in the first instance.

For further enquiries please contact Simon Buller, Director of Operations –

Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.

It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below :

• 41 Days holiday : 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days (pro rata for part time staff)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme (pro rata for part time staff)
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme : Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance