Senior Administrative Officer - Curriculum and Quality Assurance

Fixed Term: Part Time Maternity Cover

We are seeking a highly motivated person to join our Curriculum and Quality Assurance (CQA) Team.  The CQA Team provides high level guidance and supports all regulatory aspects of Taught and Research programmes associated with our Schools and Faculties.

This role is part time working 21 hours per week (0.6FTE)

 What you will do:

Working closely with the Curriculum and Quality Assurance Team Leader, key academic staff and other professional services, your main duties will be to apply a detailed understanding of Curriculum and Quality Assurance policies, processes and systems, ensuring that activities are delivered accurately, efficiently and by agreed deadlines, and to identify potential improvements for further investigation. Your duties will include:

• Management of Academic Integrity Procedures
• Management of Annual Reporting processes
• Working with academic staff to support provision and development of curriculum information 
• Coordinating and supporting Programme Approval and Review Events
• Appointment of external examiners, collation of reports and feedback to external examiners 
• Support for Committees, servicing, taking forward actions where appropriate
• Supervision of the day-to-day work of Level 2B Administrative Officers.

About you – you will

• be an excellent team player with broad relevant work experience and a proven ability to work proactively; 
• be well organised and adaptable, taking a proactive approach to identify process, system and service improvements through the development of constructive relationships with key stakeholders;
• possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills and a commitment to providing excellent customer service;
• have excellent time management and organisational skills and the ability to manage your own workload effectively to meet business requirements;  
• have a keen eye for attention to detail;
• be flexible and willing to undertake other duties as required by relevant colleagues;
• have experience of processing and analysing data sets using multiple systems;
• be a competent user of Microsoft Office, particularly Word, Excel and Outlook.

Working at the University of Southampton

 Check out the staff benefits and why you should join us at the University of Southampton.

As a university we aim to create an environment where everyone can thrive and are proactive in fostering a culture of inclusion, respect and equality of opportunity. We believe that we can only truly meet our objectives if we are reflective of society, so we are passionate about creating a working environment in which you are free to bring your whole self to work. With a generous holiday allowance as well as additional university closure days we are committed to supporting our staff and students and open to a flexible working approach.

To informally discuss this position, please contact Victoria Willis  V.L.Willis@soton.ac.uk 

Further details:

• Job Description and Person Specification

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