Associate Dean

3 weeks ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Matrix Solutions International LTD Full time

Scholars School System is a project of the UK CURRICULUM & ACCREDITATION BODY (UKCAB, a registered charity founded in 2006) has campuses across the United Kingdom, is looking for an Associate Dean
- Student Support across all campuses based in the Birmingham campus.

Scholars School System is a national independent higher education provider, offering world-class education. Taught programs, ranging from Foundation Year through to Level 7, delivered in partnership with institutions such as Leeds Trinity University. Over 5000 (UK and EU) learners have completed their learning journey in the last five years with the current student population being over 3000.

Our core values are very important because

1. We share a common set of values across everything we do which helps to define who we are and how we behave.

2. We put our students and our community at the heart of all that we do.

3. We foster excellence, innovation, and creativity.

4. We celebrate **diversity**, **inclusion**, **equality,** and the breaking down of barriers to success.

5. We have high expectations of ourselves, our students, and our partners.

Reports to: Senior Management

**Responsibilities**:

- The Associate Dean (Student Support ) plays a key role in supporting the Mission, Vision, and Values of Scholars School with strategic leadership and the enhancement of students' experience and support mechanism
- Developing a platform for the celebration and promotion of student support, by providing innovation through extra-curricular and team-building activities for the achievement of best practice
- Provides leadership to Academic Support staff at all campuses, focusing on improvements to student’s learning experience from induction through to post-graduation. This includes managing the day-to-day basis operation of the student support and experiences delivered across all campuses ensuring that students experience the highest pastoral support and career advice
- Promoting and further enhance the highest quality student experience for students on collaborative programmes including enhancing the development of student skills
- Contributing towards the efficient and effective use of resources provided across the campuses and ensure that Academic Support Staff and students make full use of the learning resources provided by the institution collaborative partners
- Dealing with student issues in a timely and professional manner using the appropriate policies and procedures, developing effective student voice mechanisms, and maintaining effective student complaints procedures
- Lead a comprehensive orientation and transition to advance equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives across all campuses and coordination of all student leadership development programs
- Oversee the strategic planning for equality, diversity and inclusion, including data-driven development of plan goals, implementation of plan initiatives, monitoring of key indicators, and assessment
- Create and sustain a high-driven and inclusive education and student learning environment, which empowers the development of academic teachers; enables high quality learning opportunity; and supports the conduct of excellent teaching and student learning in line with expectations and strategic plans
- Work with senior management and their leadership teams to ensure that the quality of teaching pastoral support in the university is monitored and reviewed, that good practice is shared and unsatisfactory performance addressed
- Work with senior management and their leadership teams to ensure students receive a learning experience of high and improving quality and to address unsatisfactory performance
- Responsible for overseeing the wider student experience in all aspects of student life and support
- Provide leadership and management to specific staff as defined by the role and any other staff as agreed with the Executive Dean, including the setting of objectives, performance management, and review
- Liaise, co-operate, collaborate, and communicate effectively with colleagues within SSS including central and professional service functions, and share good practices, innovation, and improve performance to create a culture of continuous quality enhancement with the faculty
- Take regular appraisal reviews of staff as appropriate, ensuring clear performance expectations supporting personal development plans are agreed, as well as encouraging the continuous professional development of staff within area of responsibility
- Lead the development of new and creative approaches to achieve strategic goals. Initiate new and original solutions to problems

Education and Qualification:

- Proven ability to provide clear and effective leadership, promoting a sense of collegiality and ambition, encouraging productivity to ensure that the key aims, and objectives of the University’s various relevant strategies are embedded and realised in a coherent and consistent way
- Sustained record of effective


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