AHEP Quality and Standards SIG Deputy Coordinator Role

Location: Remote

Salary: Volunteer

Closing Date: Friday, 14 February 2025

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About the SIG:

The Quality and Standards SIG aims to bring together anyone in a professional services role with a professional specialism, remit, or interest in setting, monitoring, and enhancing academic quality and standards.

This includes the following:
  • Academic quality policy and/or governance;
  • Attendance and engagement;
  • Assessment and feedback;
  • Programme/Course/Module Development;
  • Collaborative Provision;
  • Committee Officering, e.g. academic boards, quality & standards committees, and a wide range of panels;
  • Competition and Markets Authority compliance;
  • Continuous/Annual Monitoring and Review and action plans;
  • Course/Module health data, dashboards, and reporting;
  • Degree Apprenticeships;
  • External Examining;
  • Office for Students registration and degree awarding powers requirements;
  • Professional, statutory, and regulatory body (PSRB) requirements;
  • Professional partnerships;
  • Research ethics;
  • Resolutions, e.g. (non-)academic misconduct, appeals, complaints, extensions, mitigating circumstances, sexual violence and misconduct;
  • Sector bodies, networking, and CPD opportunities;
  • Student representation and voice;
  • Survey design, delivery, reporting, and action plans;

and more! Whether your work feeds directly into:

  • strategic decision making;
  • working with internal academic, professional services, and student leads at various levels across your institution;
  • working with external leads (e.g. External Examiners, OfS/PSRB links, QAA, IHE, partner institutions, etc.); and/or
  • a broad interest in the sector’s direction of travel

Our hope is that this Group will offer useful opportunities to:

– Expand your knowledge

– Explore new and innovative ideas;

– Discuss and trouble-shoot sector developments;

– Share and benefit from lessons learned;  

– Raise your institutional and professional profile; and

– Showcase good practice.

This SIG is a collaborative and inclusive space, which currently has over 400 members from a wide range of institutions, countries, and job titles/specialisms.

Purpose:

As the Quality and Standards SIG Deputy Coordinator, you will be involved in:

– Representing AHEP and its values within your institution and networks;

– Identifying sector trends, trajectories, and areas of interest;

– Organizing and hosting (largely) online sessions tailored for the SIG members;

– Liaising with guest speakers, delivering case studies, and leading discussions;

– Sharing best practice with Quality and Standards SIG members through platforms such as the LinkedIn Quality and Standards SIG page; and

– If interested, working with the Lead Coordinator to deliver conference presentations, co-author articles for publication, peer support initiatives, etc.

Location: Remote (with discounted places available at AHEP events such as the AHEP Annual Conference)

Salary: Volunteer

Closing Date: Friday, 14 February

How to apply: Please supply an up-to-date CV and a cover letter of no more than one page / 750 words detailing your commitment to the SIG and how you would showcase this within your role as a coordinator.

Please specify the SIG and the role that you are applying for within your application.

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For further guidance on the roles, responsibilities and benefits of being a SIG Coordinator, please read our SIG Handbook.

If you have any further questions at all, please do not hesitate to contact hello@ahep.ac.uk.

Key Responsibilities:

As a Deputy Coordinator, you will be expected to:

– Attend and contribute to meetings with lead and fellow Deputy Coordinators;

– Support the Lead Coordinator in creating an effective form of communication between the coordinating group;

– Collaborate with the coordinating group to set goals and priorities for each year ahead;

– If the Lead Coordinator is unable to attend, Deputy Coordinators are expected to attend quarterly online SIG meetings organised by AHEP. These meetings are otherwise optional, though encouraged, for Deputy Coordinators;

– Facilitate the exchange of ideas, resources, and best practices among SIG members, contributing to a collective pool of expertise.

Requirements:

– Experience within Quality and Standards initiatives within the higher education sector.

– Strong organisational and leadership skills.

– Ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholders from a range of organisations and institutions across the globe.

– Excellent and varied communication and advocacy skills

For further detail on the responsibilities and benefits of being an AHEP SIG Coordinator, please access our SIG Guidance Handbook. This document outlines the essential expectations and tasks that coordinators might engage in and aims to provide coordinators with comprehensive support in navigating the various aspects involved in forming, organising, and managing their groups effectively.

Next Steps…

Following the deadline for applications on Friday, 14 February 2025, applications will be reviewed by the Lead Coordinator. Successful applicants will be invited to a 30-minute call via Teams to discuss their application further. Following this conversation, the AHEP team will confirm the outcome of your application.

If you have any questions, please contact hello@ahep.ac.uk.

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