Deputy Registrar

Summary

Join Study Group as a Deputy Registrar and play a key role in ensuring academic quality and standards across its global network. This full-time, permanent, remote position involves assisting the Academic Registrar in overseeing academic governance, serving as secretary to various academic boards and committees, and working closely with International Study Centres (ISCs). You will provide advice on quality assurance, manage meeting logistics, draft minutes, and ensure compliance with Study Group's standards. The ideal candidate will have 1-2 years of experience in academic quality roles and a strong understanding of governance processes. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to the continuous improvement of Study Group's approval and monitoring mechanisms.

Requirements

• An undergraduate degree or equivalent professional experience
• Significant experience of quality assurance or regulatory compliance within an educational organisation
• Experience of managing, developing, inspiring and colleagues and gaining buy-in from high-performing teams in an educational setting
• Evidence of effecting cultural change and implementing new operating systems and procedure
• Exceptional understanding of governance and decision-making processes and the management of committees
• Strong decision making and problem-solving skills with an ability to innovate
• Ability to lead projects with a clear sense of purpose and direction
• Proven ability to influence with a willingness to challenge existing assumptions and take difficult decisions where necessary
• Ability to establish credibility and build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and operate effectively within fast-changing environments

Responsibilities

• Act as Secretary for Academic Board, Quality Learning and Teaching Committee, Student Experience Committee, Research and Scholarship Committee, Programme Approval and Variation Committee, Entry Requirements Advisory Board and Student Advisory Board
• Work with the Chairs of the board and committees to prepare and distribute agenda and meeting papers on a timely basis
• Note and record key meeting decisions and circulate on a timely basis to attendees
• Ensuring that all actions are reported back to the board/committees ahead of meetings
• Draft formal minutes and prepare follow-up communications as needed
• Ensure that the members’ terms of appointment are effectively monitored
• Provide practical advice and guidance to internal senior managers on good governance practice in the context of a for-profit, international education organisation
• Work to engender positive working relationships at a key group of ISCs as well as with the wider network of Study Group centres
• Identify how best to ensure that ISCs can effectively embedded quality assurance procedures to enable organisational objectives to be met
• Ensure that where areas of risk are identified and/or improvements need to be made these are communicated effectively and that mitigations are in place quickly
• Work effectively with all parties concerned to ensure the smooth running of approval and monitoring processes for centres
• To work with all parties concerned to ensure the successful delivery of QAE Office projects
• Co-ordinate, attend and produce reports for approval events as a key member of panels making quality assurance/compliance decisions
• Co-ordinate, oversee and produce reports from monitoring submissions considered via correspondence and at monitoring events
• Prepare reports, draft papers and present papers at academic governance committees, as appropriate
• Play a role in the continuous improvement of the approval and monitoring mechanisms of Study Group to ensure that they remain fit for purpose
• First point of contact and referral for academic governance issues from colleagues around the network
• Play a role in the design and delivery of specific parts of the QAE Office’s strategic plan

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of external regulation on the HE sector in England and the rest of the United Kingdom
• Knowledge of European higher education and pathway provision education sector regulation
• Demonstrable commitment to continuous professional development

Benefits

Remote work, with occasional travel to our Brighton Head Office