Quality and Compliance Officer

Christ The Redeemer College, London; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Christ The Redeemer College, London is seeking a skilled Quality & Compliance Officer to uphold academic quality, governance, and regulatory compliance within the UK Higher Education sector. Working with senior leadership, you will maintain compliance registers, support audits, review policies, and contribute to risk management and continuous improvement aligned with strategic objectives.

You will bring experience in quality assurance, governance, and regulatory reporting, with excellent

Qualifications

• Experience in quality assurance, governance, regulation, audits, risk management or academic administration.
• Knowledge of UK Higher Education regulatory requirements or QA frameworks.
• Experience supporting audits, reviews, inspections, compliance monitoring or regulatory reporting.

Responsibilities

• Support compliance with Higher Education regulatory requirements and quality assurance frameworks.
• Maintain compliance registers, policies, and governance records.
• Assist audits, reviews, inspections, and regulatory reporting.
• Contribute to policy development, implementation and review.
• Support risk management and assurance activities across the college.
• Manage compliance relating to partnerships, awarding bodies and validating organisations.
• Assist with UK GDPR, information governance and data protection activities.
• Produce compliance, governance and quality reports for senior stakeholders.
• Support strategic projects related to institutional development and regulatory improvement.

Skills

Quality assurance

Compliance

Governance

Regulation

Audit

Risk management

Academic administration

Education

Degree-level qualification

Law / compliance / governance / risk management

Job description

Company Description

Christ The Redeemer College, London is a higher and further education institution based in Harrow, London, UK. The college trains learners from diverse backgrounds to become leaders who serve with quality and distinction in their chosen professions. It offers a range of professional short courses, diploma, Btec and degree programmes to support different career pathways. Established in May 1998, the college has a long-standing presence in the education sector and is a partner college of the the Birmingham Newman University.

Would you like to join a growing us and play a key role in ensuring academic quality, regulatory compliance, and institutional excellence.

We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Quality & Compliance Officer to support the College's commitment to maintaining high standards of quality assurance, governance, and regulatory compliance within the UK Higher Education sector.

Working closely with senior leadership, the successful candidate will help ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, quality assurance frameworks, data protection legislation, governance obligations, and institutional policies. The role will support audits, reviews, policy development, risk management, compliance monitoring, and continuous improvement initiatives that contribute to the College's strategic objectives.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Supporting compliance with Higher Education regulatory requirements and quality assurance frameworks.
• Monitoring and maintaining compliance registers, policies, and governance records.
• Supporting internal and external audits, reviews, inspections, and regulatory reporting.
• Assisting with policy development, implementation, and review.
• Contributing to institutional risk management and assurance activities.
• Supporting compliance relating to partnerships, awarding bodies, and validating organisations.
• Assisting with UK GDPR, information governance, and data protection activities.
• Producing compliance, governance, and quality reports for senior stakeholders.
• Supporting strategic projects related to institutional development, quality enhancement, and regulatory improvement.

About You

You will have:

• Experience working in quality assurance, compliance, governance, regulation, audit, risk management, or academic administration.
• Knowledge of the UK Higher Education sector, regulatory requirements, or quality assurance frameworks.
• Experience supporting audits, reviews, inspections, compliance monitoring, or regulatory reporting.
• Excellent organisational, analytical, and communication skills.
• The ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders and manage multiple priorities.

Qualifications and Experience

We welcome applications from candidates with:

• A degree-level qualification or equivalent professional experience.
• Qualifications or professional development in areas such as law, compliance, governance, quality assurance, risk management, public policy, higher education administration, or related fields.
• Experience within a Higher Education provider, university, college, awarding organisation, regulatory body, or a similarly regulated environment.

Why Join Us?

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to an ambitious institution committed to academic excellence, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement. You will work across academic and professional services teams, helping to strengthen quality standards, governance arrangements, and institutional effectiveness.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates. Selection will be based on skills, experience, qualifications, and the ability to meet the requirements of the role.