Head of Centre

•Lead and motivate Year 1 academic staff to contribute to ensuring the best possible student outcomes and student experience.
•Contribute to developing, communicating, and enacting the strategy and priorities in alignment with UK ISC.
•Create and regularly update the Account Management Plan and other strategic documents, to ensure their currency.
•Identify, agree, and implement improvements to the student journey through the use of technology in alignment with relevant parties.
•Actively lead the Management Team.
•Ensure that staff feedback mechanisms are effectively used to ensure that staff are retained and developed and would recommend Study Group as a place to work.
•Representation on key joint committees as directed.
•Where appropriate, and through negotiation be a member of strategic groups.
•Set the framework for and oversee the allocation of teaching resources, ensuring that teaching and learning activities are planned and delivered within an agreed budget and meet operational margins.
•Ensure that teaching resources are planned and allocated in suitable time before the start of each term.
•Drive efficiency through the reduction of non-value adding activity.
•Ensure that processes are in place for the effective design and implementation of appropriate, fair, and secure assessment activities on all courses and ensure all students receive effective assessment feedback.
•Lead on ensuring the implementation of actions from the Action Plan of the annual monitoring report and report regularly on progress against actions in the Action Plan.
•Ensure high levels of progression are achieved for students across all modules, courses, and programmes, with particular attention to attrition and completion.
•Produce Annual Monitoring Reports for submission to relevant parties
•Provide reports, data and recommendations to key partnership meetings and Provider management and academic governance meetings.
•Lead on preparing new courses for validation and approval, and existing courses for re-validation and/or re-approval in alignment with procedure.
•Develop and maintain effective relationships with key contacts, ensuring a full understanding of relevant curriculum content, assessment modes and quality policies and procedures.