Head of Academic Planning

TPP Recruitment; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading university in the UK seeks a part-time Academic Planning Manager for the Law School. This hybrid role involves overseeing workload allocation, data analysis, and academic recruitment, ensuring alignment with institutional goals. Candidates must have extensive experience in academic planning and data interpretation along with strong attention to detail. This fixed-term contract ends in December 2027, offering excellent training opportunities and benefits like a pension scheme.

Benefits

Occupational pension scheme

Generous annual leave

Hybrid working

Excellent training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Extensive administrative experience in higher education.
• Experience in academic planning and workload allocation.
• Strong attention to detail and data interpretation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead managerial role in academic planning for the Law School.
• Oversee workload allocation process to ensure fairness and alignment.
• Model and analyze data to inform academic decision-making.
• Manage recruitment and onboarding of Guest Teachers and Assistants.

Skills

Administrative experience in higher education

Data analysis

Staff management

Budget management

Attention to detail

Learning new technologies

Job description

The Role:

Working for this leading university, you will play the lead managerial role in academic planning for the Law School. Working closely with the Associate Dean (Education) and other senior colleagues you will oversee the workload allocation process to ensure fairness, transparency, and alignment with institutional goals. The role encompasses strategic input into course planning, staffing models, and resource allocation to support high-quality teaching and student experience. This is a complex and large-scale process, with indicatively 80+ academic staff, over 100 courses (across undergraduate and postgraduate teaching) as well as a large number of Guest Teachers and Graduate Teaching Assistants each year.

A key focus of the role is on modelling, data analysis, and reporting to monitor workloads, teaching quality, and resource efficiency, and providing advice and insight to inform academic decision-making. The postholder has ownership of the end-to-end recruitment and management of Guest Teachers and Graduate Teaching Assistants, ensuring timely contracts, accurate payments, smooth onboarding and effective budget control.

You will line manage staff to oversee academic recruitment, review, promotion and various types of leave including sabbatical. They will also contribute to School-wide initiatives, representing the Law School in institutional forums and managing ad hoc projects as required. This is a key leadership role combining operational management, strategic planning, and data-informed decision-making in support of the Law School’s educational mission.

This is a hybrid (60% on-site during term-time), part‑time, 21 hours per week role, in a fixed term contract until December 2027 to cover a staff member who is on secondment.

What’s on offer:

• Occupational pension scheme
• Generous annual leave
• Hybrid working
• Excellent training and development opportunities

What’s required:

• Candidates must have extensive administrative experience in higher education and proven experience in academic planning, workload allocation models, resource management, or similar processes.
• Experience of analysing and interpreting complex data is essential, as is experience of preparing high-quality reports, data, and recommendations to support decision-making.
• Very strong attention to detail is essential, together with a willingness to experiment with and learn new technologies to improve services.
• Experience in staff management and budget management is desirable.

Closing date: 11/01/2026

Application: Please apply now with your CV. Due to the high number of applications, we are unable to reply to everyone individually. If your CV reflects the required essential experience, then a member of our team here at TPP will be in touch with you shortly to discuss everything further. If your CV isn’t successful, you will receive a notification of this via email.

We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.