Strategic Director of Academic Quality & Innovation

Future Skills Academy; Auckland; On-site; NZD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

AIC Auckland International Campus, a collaboration between Future Skills Academy and Otago Polytechnic, seeks a Director of Academic Quality to provide strategic leadership across quality, compliance, and curriculum development. This senior role shapes institutional foundations for growth.

Based at Auckland City Campus, the role leads learning and teaching innovation, accreditation activity, and instructional design, guiding a high-performing team in a complex, international education setting.

Qualifications

• Master’s or Doctoral qualification in education, quality management, or a related field.
• Proven experience developing and implementing institution-wide Quality Management Systems within tertiary institutions, with NZQA regulatory knowledge.
• Track record in programme development at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
• Experience applying learning theory and pedagogical practice in higher education.
• Experience leading organisation-wide learning and teaching competency frameworks.
• Experience in instructional design, educational technology, and curriculum development at Level 7+.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership across academic quality systems, compliance and assurance, programme development, learning and teaching, and instructional design.
• Lead design and continuous improvement of an institution-wide Quality Management System that exceeds compliance and embeds best practice.
• Ensure quality frameworks align with partnerships with Future Skills and Otago Polytechnic.
• Develop and sustain compliance and assurance capability to meet regulations and contractual obligations.
• Oversee programme development, review, and NZQA approval/accreditation activity.
• Lead learning and teaching development including Experiential Education Framework and AI-safe assessment.
• Provide strategic leadership of instructional design to ensure engaging, inclusive, accessible learning.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team including key leads.

Skills

Quality management systems

Programme development

Learning & teaching frameworks

Instructional design

Strategic leadership

NZQA regulatory knowledge

Staff leadership

Education

Master’s or Doctoral qualification in education or quality management

Job description

AIC Auckland International Campus, a collaboration between Future Skills Academy and Otago Polytechnic, seeks a Director of Academic Quality to provide strategic leadership across quality, compliance, and curriculum development. This senior role shapes institutional foundations for growth.

Based at Auckland City Campus, the role leads learning and teaching innovation, accreditation activity, and instructional design, guiding a high-performing team in a complex, international education setting.