Lead for Academic Administration

The University of Greater Manchester is seeking to recruit a Lead for Academic Administration.

Your role is to manage and lead a team of administrative staff in the provision of high quality academic administrative support. You will have managerial and operational responsibility for the timely and accurate administrative functions aligned to the remit of the newly established Quality Transformation Unit, including (but not limited to) exam boards, data reconciliation meetings, student progression reviews, and internal and external stakeholder meetings. You will liaise with academic and professional colleagues throughout the University, with partners and the wider community engendering positive working relationships.  

You will provide leadership to the administrative team who deal with internal and external client enquiries, data processing throughout the student lifecycle from, where appropriate, enquiry, admissions and enrolment through to graduation, providing support for the processes surrounding academic quality management throughout the life of the academic programmes including providing support for committees and the management meeting structures of the organisation.  

You will work flexibly as part of the Quality Transformation Leadership team, managing and deploying your Academic Administrators to ensure full service coverage, and to ensure that quality procedures and processes are adequate and appropriate to facilitate data capture, retrieval, analysis and reports to be generated to meet requirements of internal and external service users, and to ensure the compliance of regulations and legislation within areas of responsibility.

For more information about the role, please contact Jo Hornby, Head of Quality Transformation, at j.hornby2@bolton.ac.uk