Quality Officer

Why choose us?:

UAL Awarding Body believes in transformative education. We design and award creative qualifications that empower support and inspire educators to help students reach their potential.

UAL Awarding Body currently offers further education qualifications in art and design, fashion, creative media, music and performing and production arts. We are also the UK’s leading provider of the Diploma in Art & Design – Foundation Studies.

University of the Arts London (UAL) is Europe’s largest specialist art and design university, comprising six renowned Colleges: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts. www.arts.ac.uk/awarding

Our qualifications are regulated by the non-ministerial department Ofqual, responsible for regulating qualifications, examinations and assessments in England.

The Role:

The primary relationship of the role will be with the Senior Quality Officer, whilst also working closely with the other Quality Officer. The role will be to maintain, develop and monitor the quality assurance policies and processes that support the UAL Awarding Body’s core business, its approved centres (schools, colleges and universities), qualifications and students.

Your Profile:

Degree educated or with an equivalent professional qualification, you'll have an understanding of 14-19 education policy, UAL Awarding Body qualifications, educational frameworks and the requirements of educational regulatory bodies such as Ofqual. You'll also have an understanding of the General Conditions of Recognition (GCR) and experience of working within a risk-based quality assurance environment.

You will have experience of the systems and processes that support the approval and monitoring of centres and you will have contributed to an Ofqual self-assessment or similar self-evaluation exercise. Experience of working with external verification and/or external moderation quality assurance models is desirable.

You will also have experience of using database and spreadsheet applications in an educational quality assurance context. Able to work independently with accuracy and attention to detail, you excel at analysing, interpreting and presenting complex information and data.

In return, University of the Arts London offers generous leave, an attractive pension scheme and a commitment to your continuing personal development and training in an environment that encourages excellence, creativity and diversity. Relocation assistance is available.

If you have any queries, please contact ADS Recruitment Team via email ADSRecruitment@arts.ac.uk or telephone: 020 7514 9627.

To apply, please visit: https://ual.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/appcentre-1/candidate/postings/2584

Closing date: 24 October 2016, 23:55pm.

University of the Arts London aims to be an equal opportunities employer embracing diversity in all areas of activity.