Student Success Team Lead - Data‑Driven Education

London College of Contemporary Arts (LCCA); Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Generous annual leave

Flexible working

Professional development

Wellbeing & counselling

Job summary

London College of Contemporary Arts (LCCA) delivers industry-focused higher education across creative and professional disciplines, built on a progressive, student-centred learning and teaching methodology. The Student Success Team Manager leads and oversees the Student Success Tutor (SST) team, ensuring consistent, high-quality academic support across campuses throughout the student journey.

A core focus of the role is data-driven decision making: interpreting engagement, attendance,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline.
• PGCE, QTS, or a recognised teaching/ coaching/ mentoring qualification (held or working towards).
• Leading, supervising, or managing staff in an academic or educational support setting.
• Delivering academic support and developing student success/retention initiatives.
• Using data and dashboards to monitor performance, target intervention, and produce insight-led reports.
• Teaching or supporting learners in FE/HE, and delivering staff CPD.
• Strong understanding of curriculum, levels of study, and assessment in HE.
• Strong leadership, people-management, and communication skills.
• Proficiency with LMS, dashboards, and student data/support systems; commitment to inclusive education and widening participation.
• Student-centred ‘can-do’ approach; calm and credible under pressure.
• Evidence-led and analytical, with a commitment to continuous improvement and the values of the Group.
• Collaborative, inclusive, and proactive.

Responsibilities

• Lead, supervise, and allocate the SST team across campuses, programmes, and levels of study.
• Set and review team and individual objectives through regular one-to-ones, appraisals, and performance management.
• Recruit, induct, train, and develop SST staff (including probation), and plan and deliver ongoing CPD.
• Act as first escalation point for complex academic cases and deputise for the Director of Student Success as required.
• Maintain current knowledge of LCCA courses and oversee 1:1 support, workshops, group sessions, and proactive engagement.
• Ensure SST guidance aligns with curriculum requirements, assessment frameworks, and learning outcomes.
• Set service standards for personal academic tutoring, SMART goal setting, and early intervention.
• Coordinate classroom cover and provide direct academic support where required.
• Own the SST team’s use of engagement, attendance, assessment, and progression data to identify at-risk students and prioritise intervention.
• Translate data into decisions — targeting team resource, shaping workshops, and allocating support where it will have the greatest impact.
• Build and maintain dashboards and reports that give the team and senior management timely, actionable insight.
• Analyse outcomes and awarding gaps to drive service improvement and inform SMT decision-making, evaluating whether interventions worked.
• Work with academic, wellbeing, and careers teams to support engagement and progression, signposting to specialist teams as needed.
• Represent the SST team in cross-departmental meetings, committees, and working groups.
• Lead continuous improvement of the SST model in line with institutional priorities and sector best practice.
• Ensure compliance with academic regulations, safeguarding, equality, and data protection, and completion of mandatory training.
• Support LCCA’s regulatory commitments: OfS Conditions B1–B3 and E2, and the QAA Quality Code (Student Engagement, Learning and Teaching, Assessment, Enabling Student Achievement).

Skills

Data dashboards

Leadership

Student support

Curriculum knowledge

LMS proficiency

Communication

Collaboration

Data analytics

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree

PGCE / QTS or equivalent

Tools

LMS

Dashboards

Student data systems

Job description

London College of Contemporary Arts (LCCA) delivers industry-focused higher education across creative and professional disciplines, built on a progressive, student-centred learning and teaching methodology. The Student Success Team Manager leads and oversees the Student Success Tutor (SST) team, ensuring consistent, high-quality academic support across campuses throughout the student journey.

A core focus of the role is data-driven decision making: interpreting engagement, attendance,