Programme Director: BSc Professional Accountancy (Integrated Model) / FTC, 24 months, 17.5 hour ...

The University of London is a leading UK provider of distance and digital education internationally, offering programmes to 45,000 students in 190 countries around the world. Although proudly rooted in London, our community and impact are global.

We are a national leader in the humanities, and we promote their value to society and the economy through knowledge creation and exchange. We are also a federation of 17 world class higher education institutions, with collaboration at the heart of our ethos. The University of London federation is a collective community of more than 240,000 learners and 50,000 staff, delivering world-leading research across all disciplines.

Our passion for increasing access to education and mobilising the collective power and expertise of the federation is central to our ability to transform lives around the world and address the global challenges of the future.

The Programme Director: BSc Professional Accountancy (Integrated Model) is a key role supporting the development and delivery of our new programme which launches in 2026. The role will lead the academic development of the programme and ensuring that critical programme milestones of the programme development project are met. Once the programme is live the role will oversee the smooth running of the programme.

This role is critical to the success of the programme and we would be keen for the successful candidate to begin the role as soon as possible.

• Leading academic leadership of the BSc Professional Accountancy (Integrated Model) ensuring that academic and quality standards are applied, critical milestones of the programme development project are met, and the programme is successfully launched.
• Being the lead academic at the academic approval event during the development phase. In addition, in preparation for academic approval, taking responsibility for the preparation of all programme documentation, including the programme regulations, specification, rationale and module specifications to submit for consideration by the Academic Approval Panel.
• Acting as an Academic Subject Expert to develop learning resources, and teaching and assessment strategy in accordance with the module specifications.
• Engaging with professional body partners to ensure academic content aligns with agreed parameters.
• Working with Marketing teams on the development of promotional marketing assets, including, but not limited to, a programme prospectus, promotional video and webinars.
• Ensuring the timely delivery of module content to the agreed deadlines in accordance with the University of London (UoL) Module Development process.
• Collaboration with UoL Learning Design and Development team, for ensuring that all final academic content is uploaded to the VLE platform as per agreed project delivery schedules.
• Ensuring that all additional infrastructure requirements are scoped and planned for as part of the programme development project.
• Responsible for the provision of all academic support and direction for students including, without limitation: the academic content specification for the programme; ensuring the authoring of study materials in all media including compliance to statutory regulations and UoL policies on accessibility; ensuring that there is the necessary tutoring support and assessment as per the module specification and design plan for each module; performing the duties in an expert and diligent manner, to the best of their academic, technical and creative skills.
• Overseeing all UoL programme development related governance meetings during the development phase.
• Supporting the recruitment and management of Module Leaders and Online Tutors to support the running of the programme and actively supporting administrative staff with the training, and supervision of these roles.
• Working closely with programme administrative staff to support all administrative and operational activities for the programme.
• Acting as key academic liaison to the UoL operational teams responsible for supporting the student lifecycle. Working with teams on activities, including, but not limited to, webinars and welcome messages, responding to student surveys, participating in online open days and providing input into the development of Programme Regulations and Specification.
• Ensuring student assessment is undertaken to schedule by appointed examiners and to the appropriate academic standards in line with the quality assurance schedule.
• Participating in quality assurance events for BSc Professional Accountancy (Integrated Model) for such as the Annual Programme Review.
• Acting as a representative for the programme at UoL committees and panels.

This role works closely with the related Programme Manager, as well as Module Leaders and Online Tutors associated with the programme.

To be considered for this opportunity, please submit your Application and CV before the closing date at midnight on Sunday 5th January 2025. Interviews will take place on Tuesday 28th January 2025.

The University reserves the right to close the vacancy earlier than the published end date should it receive sufficient applications to warrant earlier shortlisting. The University currently operates a Hybrid Working framework involving a mix of working remotely and in the office. Typically, the majority of employees will be able to agree to work remotely for up to 60% of their working week, role dependent, however will be required to attend on specific days for training or team meetings.

The University of London is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive working environment where we can all be ourselves and succeed. We particularly encourage applications from members of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic communities as this group is currently under-represented at all levels within the University. All appointments will be made on merit, based on the criteria identified in the job description.

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