Head of Educational Development

MU Services Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A higher education institution in Greater London seeks a Head of Educational Development to lead academic staff in enhancing educational practices. This role includes managing teams, designing professional development programs, and ensuring collaboration among departments. The candidate will have a strong background in curriculum design and project management, focusing on improving the quality of student education. The position offers a dynamic work environment and opportunities for institutional and collaborative projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage academic developers and learning designers.
• Design and evaluate professional development programs.
• Foster student-centred educational development.
• Manage educational expertise deployment across faculties.
• Contribute to learning and teaching through external networks.

Skills

Team leadership

Curriculum design

Educational innovation

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Relevant higher education qualification

Job description

Overall Purpose

The postholder will lead work and services which support colleagues to innovate their learning, teaching and assessment practices, and ultimately, the quality of student education across the University. Leading teams of academic developers and learning designers, the Head of Educational Development will evolve a business partnering relationship to enable successful collaboration between the Education Development team, academic teams and professional services, enhancing the whole student learning journey. The role holder will work collaboratively across global Middlesex to design, deliver and evaluate a comprehensive Continuing Professional Development (CPD) offer for academic and third space professions service colleagues, including leading flagship programs including the Advance HE Fellowship scheme and the Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PgCert HE). They will contribute to cross-university education enhancement projects and bring innovation to programme design and review.

Principal Duties

• To lead and manage teams of senior academic developers and learning designers, ensuring their impactful and expert input into curriculum design and educational development
• Design, deliver and evaluate programmes of development for academic and education-focused professional staff, aligning these offers to role, career trajectory and opportunities for educational leadership, and including the flagship including AdvanceHE Fellowship routes and NTF and CATE applications
• Support cross-University education development initiatives and action plans in collaboration with Campuses, Faculties, Schools, Professional Service
• Design, project manage and evaluate education enhancement projects, aligning work with operational plans, KPIs and strategic objectives
• Foster student-centred and students-as-partners educational development, informed by close relationships with Middlesex Student Union, data-led understanding of student demographics and close dialogue with Student Voice representatives
• Develop and implement staff development programmes and workshop offers for academic and education-focused professional staff, aligning these offers to role, career trajectory and opportunities for educational leadership
• Lead on Middlesex University Teaching Excellence Awards, the Annual Learning and Teaching Conference and internal and external facing showcase and discussion events
• Manage collaborative work with the Quality Enhancement and Teaching Excellence Team in assuring and enhancing programme design and review and institutional partnership approval and validation
• Manage the deployment of educational expertise to Faculty and Institutional programmes of portfolio development using an agile business partnering approach
• Foster a culture of collaboration and partnership working between Educational Development and teams across Student Life and Student Administration
• Co‑ordinate bids for relevant project funding from external bodies and networks, and lead institutional and collaborative projects
• In liaison with Head of Quality, Enhancement and Teaching Excellence and Head of Access and Participation, support policy and process improvement related to learning, teaching practice, impact and staff development
• Contribute to the field of Learning and Teaching through external networks, as an ambassador for the university, and raise L&T staff awareness of sector networks, debate and good practice
• Contribute to cross-University events (for example Welcome week, Graduation and Clearing) as required
• Other duties as are within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job as requested by the line manager
• The postholder will actively follow MU policies including Equality & Diversity policies

Other Duties

• As duties and responsibilities change, the job description will be reviewed and amended in consultation with the post-holder
• The post-holder will carry out any other duties as are within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job as requested by the line manager
• The post-holder will actively follow Middlesex University policies including Equality & Diversity policies