Partnerships Governance and Compliance Manager

City St George's; Greater London; Ibrido; GBP 60.000 - 80.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

City St George’s, University of London, is seeking an experienced Partnerships Governance & Compliance Manager to provide strategic leadership for the quality assurance and governance of the University’s collaborative provision. You will lead governance across the full partnership lifecycle, support senior stakeholders, and supervise a small team to ensure regulatory compliance and risk management.

This internal redeployee opportunity offers a sector-leading package and opportunities for

Competenze

• Substantial knowledge of programme validation, approval, monitoring and review within higher education.
• Strong understanding of collaborative provision, academic governance and quality assurance.
• Ability to interpret complex regulatory requirements, manage competing priorities and risks, and influence senior stakeholders effectively.

Mansioni

• Lead governance across the full partnership lifecycle, including approval, validation, monitoring and review.
• Oversee complex partnership projects, manage risks and dependencies, provide authoritative advice to senior stakeholders, and ensure effective governance and regulatory compliance.
• Lead the Partnerships Governance and Compliance sub‑function, managing one Senior Officer and two Officers and ensuring high‑quality delivery against institutional priorities.

Descrizione del lavoro

Please note: This role is only open to internal Redeployee applicants at City St George's.

City St George’s, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George’s, University of London into one institution. The combined university is now one of the largest higher education destinations for London students, combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, policy, law, creativity, communications, science and technology. Our students are at the heart of everything that we do, and we are committed to supporting them to pursue their career and personal ambitions.

Our research is engaged, at the frontier of practice and has a positive impact on the world around us.

Background

The Partnerships Governance & Compliance Manager sits within the Partnerships Hub, Academic Services and provides strategic leadership and institutional oversight for the quality assurance and governance of the University’s collaborative provision and other partnership-based learning opportunities. Working with senior academic and professional-services colleagues, the role helps ensure partnership activity supports institutional priorities while safeguarding academic standards and meeting regulatory and accreditation requirements.

Responsibilities

You will lead the University’s approach to partnership quality and governance across the full partnership lifecycle, including approval, validation, monitoring and review. You will oversee complex partnership projects, manage risks and dependencies, provide authoritative advice to senior stakeholders, and ensure effective governance and regulatory compliance. You will also lead the Partnerships Governance and Compliance sub‑function, managing one Senior Officer and two Officers and ensuring high‑quality delivery against institutional priorities.

Person Specification

You will have substantial knowledge and practical experience of programme validation, approval, monitoring and review within higher education, alongside a strong understanding of collaborative provision, academic governance and quality assurance. You will be able to interpret complex regulatory requirements, manage competing priorities and risks, and influence senior stakeholders effectively. Strong communication, professional judgement and relationship‑building skills are essential, together with experience of supervising staff and leading partnership‑related workstreams.

Closing date for applications: 25 October 2026 at 11:59pm

Interviews are scheduled to take place on: TBC

The selection process will involve an interview. Further details will be confirmed at the interview stage.

City St George’s offers a sector‑leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

City St George’s, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio‑economic background. City St George’s operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

The University of business, practice and the professions