Deputy Director The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education

QAA exists to safeguard the public interest in sound standards of higher education qualifications and to encourage continuous improvement in the management of the quality of higher education across the UK. We do this through programmes of institutional review of the ways that higher education institutions regulate their own academic quality and standards.

Deputy Director

We wish to appoint an experienced, dependable and forward thinking Deputy Director, to lead the management and coordination of QAA's review programmes in England and Northern Ireland, and overseas. This is an important and pivotal role in QAA's work and offers an opportunity to develop and influence national and international operations in this field.

Reporting to the Director of Reviews, you will be the principal point of contact with higher education providers for all institutional review matters and will ensure that reviewers are selected and trained effectively, participate successfully in the review process, and produce high quality, impartial, accessible and evidence-based reports. As a key member of the Reviews Group management team, you will be experienced in managing staff and in directing projects.

You will have experience of providing a cost effective service to high professional standards, and be able to demonstrate a pragmatic approach, proven leadership skills and written and oral communication skills of a high order. You will need an in-depth understanding of current quality issues in higher education, gained at a senior level, and an appreciation of the student learning experience.

The post is based at QAA's head office in Gloucester and will involve travel within the UK. There may be opportunities for travelling overseas.

If this opportunity inspires you, further details and an application form are available on our website http://www.qaa.ac.uk/WorkWithUs/Pages/Deputy-Director-Reviews.aspx or email vacancies@qaa.ac.uk

The salary for this post is on a range between £53,811 and £62,294.

No agencies, no CVs

Closing date: Wednesday 7 September 2011
First stage selection process: Friday 23 September 2011
Second stage selection process: Wednesday 28 September 2011

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