Head of Centre
Job Description
Providing leadership and management of the Centre’s operational functions. Overseeing the deliver of a high-quality educational programme. Oversee the tracking, monitoring and recording of pupil progress. The leadership and management of a supportive staff team.
Responsibilities
- 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.