Programme Leader in Law
7 months ago
**Job title**:Programme Leader
**School/Function**: School of Higher Education
**Responsible to**: Head of School
**Responsible for**: Delivering the programme using appropriate teaching and learning and assessment methods.
**JOB DESCRIPTION**
**Overall purpose**
The Programme Leader role is a key postholder in our academic management structure. The role involves the academic and line management responsibilities for a specific programme and associate staff. There will be a limited number of teaching hours associated to the role, but responsibility will be for ensuring the programme meets the associated learning, teaching and assessment requirements and an excellent academic experience for the students. The role will be hybrid with associated duties both on-campus and online.
**Specific duties and responsibilities**
- The key responsibilities of a programme leader are to:
- Manage the day-to-day delivery of the programme.
- Ensure a positive academic student experience.
- Monitor, review and enhance the teaching learning and assessment of a programme
- Manage and ensure all assessments and marking are delivered appropriately and to the required standard.
- Work with both internal and external stakeholders to support the management of the programme.
**Academic Management**
The post holder will:
- Provide line management for named Lecturers and Associate Lecturers as allocated by the Head of School (or deputy).
- Ensure that each new Lecturer/Associate Lecturer under your line management receives a full academic and staff induction in line with college policies and procedures.
- Provide communication, guidance, and support to all staff for which you are allocated line management responsibility.
- Liaise with other Programme Leaders and Senior Lecturers as appropriate to ensure that staff under your management receive appropriate operational guidance and communication when teaching on programmes that are not your immediate responsibility.
- Ensure that each member of staff line managed by you maintains a personal development plan and receives an annual performance appraisal in accordance with college policies.
- Identify staffing needs and work with relevant colleagues to allocate staff to timetables to ensure all modules are appropriately resourced across the programme.
- Engage in recruitment/marketing activities in relation to the programme.
**Teaching, Learning and Assessment**
**The post holder will**
- Ensure that all aspects of the programme comply with the Academic Regulations for the Taught Programmes.
- Ensure that relevant Programme Handbook, programme and module specifications are current and maintained and staff briefed appropriately.
- Ensure that the programme learning outcomes are fit for purpose and that module learning outcomes are aligned to them.
- Ensure that programme and module changes are appropriately considered at School level and is carried out in line with the Colleges or university partners’ Programme Design, Approval and Amendment Procedure.
- Ensure the programme VLE is maintained and current.
- Liaise with administrative staff to ensure the programmes are appropriately administered.
- Liaise with administrative staff over the scheduling of meetings of the board of study/programme team, the staff-student committee, and the module/programme board of examiners
- Ensure that all relevant information is available for the consideration of module and programme boards of examiners.
- Attend module and programme boards of examiners where the modules/programme are considered.
- Ensure the related policies and procedures of the College and/or partner University are implemented in the delivery of the programme.
- Lead board of study/programme team meetings and report on key programme issues to relevant colleagues.
- Liaise with the secretary in the production of appropriate papers (agendas, minutes, etc) for meetings of the programme team/board of study, staff-student voice committee.
**Student support**
The post holder will
- Facilitate student registration on the programme in conjunction with appropriate administrative staff (at regular start points and for late-registering students).
- Co-ordinate and participate in the student induction process, liaising where appropriate with relevant colleagues, support services and agencies (e.g. HUBX, The Library, police, health service, Students representatives, student societies).
- Ensure student representatives have been selected for their role, trained and supported within their role and ensure any issues are responded to appropriately.
- Respond to student queries relevant to the programme where these have not been satisfactorily resolved elsewhere and ensure the general orientation of students through the programmes.
- Monitor student participation, working with relevant colleagues as appropriate.
- Ensure that the requirements of students with Student Support Plans are met.
- Ensure attendance on all modules is monitored and
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