Educational Excellence Lead

Department: Office of The Principal
Salary: £61,896 - £69,114 per annum (pro rata) (Grade 7)
Reference: 2494
Location: Mile End
Date posted: 10 June 2024
Closing date: 21 June 2024

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About the Role

The Educational Excellence Lead will provide institution-wide advice and support for educational excellence, working closely with the University's senior leadership team. The post holder will contribute to strategic initiatives and projects, focusing on developing, enhancing, and evidencing excellence in the student experience. This is a part-time role (0.2fte), fixed-term for one year in the first instance.

About You

The successful candidate will have comprehensive knowledge of the UK higher education and regulatory landscape including TEF, NSS and other metrics for education, as well as the OfS conditions of registration, They should have demonstrable, extensive experience across the Higher Education sector of the use of module evaluation and associated initiatives to improve student experience metrics.

About the Academy

The Queen Mary Academy offers a comprehensive academic practice development portfolio for educators and researchers at all stages of their careers, from teaching assistants through to the professoriate. Located within the Office of the Principal, the Academy reports to the Vice-Principal (Education) and has a dotted-line report to the Vice-Principal (Research) to ensure strategic alignment in our approach. The Academy works closely with Faculty Deans to ensure close academic involvement in programme delivery.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

The post is based at Dept W in London. It is part time (0.2fte), fixed term appointment for 12 months, with the potential to extend.

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