Curriculum Development Manager in Birmingham

Birmingham City University is a large and diverse learning community with over 30,000 students from around 100 countries. We are passionate about providing our learners with a transformational journey, enabled by an exceptional supportive academic community, state-of-the-art facilities and focus on practical skills and professional relevance to support their future employability. We are also committed to world-class research, to advance knowledge and practice, to address real-world problems and fuel innovations outside of the university.

To provide expert curriculum development services, supporting the enhancement and diversification of curriculum in line with the university's Education Strategy. The postholder will deliver curriculum enhancements, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities such as STEAM, decolonisation, employability, and sustainability. Working within a quality assurance and enhancement framework, they will integrate these strategic priorities into the curriculum and support the academic community in maintaining high standards of curriculum quality and assessment practices.

Main activities and responsibilities:

• Provide expert advice and guidance on curriculum development, ensuring alignment with the university's Education Strategy and institutional priorities.
• Lead curriculum enhancement projects, ensuring integration of key strategic priorities such as STEAM, decolonisation, employability, and sustainability.
• Work with academic schools and departments to develop and implement curriculum improvements, promoting innovative and inclusive pedagogical approaches.
• Support the design and diversification of assessment methods, ensuring alignment with best practice and the Education Strategy.
• Ensure the integration of quality assurance and enhancement processes into curriculum development and delivery.
• Develop and deliver training and workshops for academic staff on curriculum development, assessment diversification, and quality enhancement.
• Collaborate with other functions within Quality Assurance & Enhancement to monitor and evaluate curriculum quality across the institution.
• Provide expert support in the review and redesign of curricula, ensuring compliance with regulatory and accreditation requirements.
• Advise on curriculum-related policy and strategy, contributing to the development of institutional educational frameworks and guidelines.
• Maintain an up-to-date understanding of sector developments and emerging trends in curriculum design, teaching, and assessment.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and to an environment that supports lawful free speech and academic freedom. We will continuously review and improve our policies, practices, and procedures to ensure that we are promoting these in all aspects of our operations. We believe that by working together, combining our many different backgrounds and life experiences, we will empower each other to reach our full potential.

The University is proudly Disability Confident. This means amongst other things that we commit to offering a guaranteed interview to disabled applicants who fully meet the essential criteria for each role.

Birmingham City University values the quality and diversity of our staff. Our staff and student community is defined by our core values, which outline who we are as a University and how we work with each other. Our core values are we create opportunity, we think differently, and we build community.

We hold an Athena SWAN Bronze award in recognition of our commitment to improving employment practices for the advancement of gender equality. Our University is located in one of the most culturally rich and diverse Cities in the UK, and it is our ambition to be the University for Birmingham and the surrounding region.

The events of 2020 have highlighted the stark inequalities that Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities face and we are committed to removing the institutional barriers that our staff and students face and improve the representation, progression and success of staff and students from all backgrounds within higher education.

Birmingham City University has been recognised for its progress on LGBT+ equality with a Gold award in the Stonewall Index and have entered the Top 100 Employers 2023 for LGBT+ inclusion. Meanwhile, we are Disability Confident (Committed) and are on an exciting journey to advance our University to progress through the Disability Confident scheme.

WORKING AND LIVING IN BIRMINGHAM

The youngest city in Europe with under-25s accounting for nearly 40% of the population, Birmingham is a city full of energy and enthusiasm and is a great place to live and work. Based in the heart of England, the city is easily accessible by road, rail and air.