Associate Dean – Teaching & Learning at Scholars School System

Location: Across all campuses, based in Birmingham

About Scholars School System

Scholars School System is a national independent higher education provider, offering world class education. Taught programmes delivered in partnership with Leeds Trinity University and courses ranges from Foundation Year to Undergraduate Degrees. Over 5000 (UK and EU) learners have successfully completed their journey in last five years and current student population is around 3000.

Our core values are very important because

• We share a common set of values across everything we do which helps to define who we are and how we behave.
• We put our students and our community at the heart of all that we do.
• We foster excellence, innovation and creativity.
• We celebrate diversity, inclusion, equality and the breaking down of barriers to success.
• We have high expectations of ourselves, our students and our partners.

Reports to: Higher Management

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership to all staff involved with the delivery of SSS and positively influencing professional services staff.
• Promote and enhance the highest quality teaching & learning for SSS students on our collaborative programmes.
• Manage on a day-to-day basis the operation of the programmes delivered across campuses, including travel to all campuses and collaborative partner sites.
• Ensure that students’ experience the highest quality teaching, learning, pastoral support and careers advice.
• Ensure that academic standards are met through the assessment process and that the marking criteria of our collaborative partners are consistently met by all teaching staff involved in the assessment of students.
• Be responsible for reports for SSS academic governance structures, partnership meetings, including quality reports to all stakeholders.
• Ensure that the quality assurance and quality enhancement requirements of the collaborative partnership are fully followed to and applied across all programmes.
• Liaise and act as a key point of contact with staff at partner institutions
• Attend all current partnership meetings and to ensure that reports for these meetings are produced in a timely manner, to the highest standards and ensure that any recommendations/suggestions are attended to well in time.
• Ensure that staff and students make full use of the learning resources provided
• Deal with academic student issues in a timely and professional manner using appropriate policies and procedures.
• Contribute to the efficient and effective use of resources provided by SSS across its campuses.
• Responsible for teaching and learning as per OFS Standards

Requirements

Essential 

• A professional approach with integrity at all times
• Leadership and management experience
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience of programme management
• Experience of upholding academic standards and enhancing the student learning experience
• Experience of working in partnership with universities and other higher education related organisations
• Knowledge and understanding of implementing internal quality assurance systems and external quality assurance, including the QAA and Office for Students.
• Recognised teaching qualification e.g.HEA

Desirable 

• Experience of quality assurance reviews
• External examining at UK universities and other higher education providers
• Strong technical and analytical skills, experience in database management preferred
• Senior leadership experience
• Travel to other campuses required (Driver’s License preferable)

Highest Qualification & Experience

• PHD in Business or Health & Social Care
• Ideally minimum 3 years of UK experience in HE
• Experience in Administrative position in HE

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