Head of Academic Standards & Quality

The Head of Academic Standards & Quality is mainly responsible for leading and managing the academic standards, quality, and accreditation activities and providing guidance and direction to senior managers across the College and to the academic community, while ensuring that the college is compliant with quality assurance and regulatory frameworks. Some of the main responsibilities include:

• Ensure there are appropriate academic structures and policies in place that enable the College to implement its academic strategy, its obligations to its students and which ensure that the college s name and reputation is protected and is compliant with external academic quality assurance regulatory and legal frameworks.
  
• Lead and manage the academic standards to ensure that core elements of quality assurance are delivered effectively
  
• Promote a culture of proactively, innovation, transparency, collaboration, flexibility in the areas of quality and standards management.
  
• Ensure that policies and procedures are effective and promote quality assurance, excellence, enhancement To ensure that there are effective and integrated quality management processes and procedures in place across the college and that these are followed by departments and Faculties
  
• Play a lead role in the initiation, development and implementation of major institutional projects and reviews.
  
• Play a lead role for the College in maintaining and developing relationships with the CAA and other related bodies.
  
• Monitor changes to the national regulatory framework for CAA and MoE, and more general developments in the HE sector, advise senior staff and propose action to be taken by the College in response.
  

Requirements

• Bachelor s Degree in Education or other relevant field
  
• 10 year s educational experience with a minimum of 5 years experience in a leadership role
  
• Relevant senior leadership qualification (desirable)
  
• Experience with UAEs CAA & MoE frameworks and licensures/accreditation requirements