Academic Standards Officer

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The opportunity

The Academic Standards team within UAL Awarding Body are looking for an experienced Administrative Officer with a passion for and working knowledge of the creative education sector.   

UAL Awarding Body design and award creative qualifications that empower and inspire educators to help students reach their potential. 

We currently offer pre degree qualifications in art and design, fashion, creative media, music and performing and production arts.  We are also the UK’s largest provider of the Foundation Diploma in Art and Design qualification. 

Our qualifications are successful because they are flexible, responsive and relevant to industry needs, and facilitate student progression. 

The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the development and enhancement of nuanced approaches to academic standards in creative education as part of the Academic Standards team.  The team includes experienced creative educators who work with academic concepts to provide and enhance methods of creative education in the UK and overseas.  The successful candidate is expected to support these endeavours through creative administrative and project based solutions, and adapt their way of working to always allow for free expression and testing of abstract ideas. 

This is a hybrid role with considerable time working from home.

About you

The successful candidate will have a degree level qualification and high level administrative skills along with experience working in an educational institution or environment, and of working to deadlines and high quality standards.  They will have advanced IT skills, be expected to work independently, collaboratively and flexibly with complex work, and be willing to travel to attend occasional events across the UK.  

If you have any queries about this role or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact Twinkle Brahmbhatt, Senior Resourcing Adviser via email at RKEEstaffrecruitment@arts.ac.uk

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

Our culture

We have become one of the world’s most international Universities, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. And, as a global university, staff and students learn from different cultures and perspectives, which leads to new conversations and innovative work. At our very core, everything we do seeks to challenge the status quo by driving social purpose and standing up for what matters.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds including those who may feel underrepresented in the workforce due to their socioeconomic circumstances such as those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) backgrounds. We aim to be a university where everyone can be themselves and are supported to reach their full potential.

With our commitment to inclusion and diversity, we are proud to be a Race Equality Charter (REC) member to help us reduce barriers that negatively impacts B.A.M.E. staff, a Stonewall Diversity Champion to ensure all LGBTQ+ people are valued at work, a Disability Confident Scheme Committed employer and member of the Business Disability Forum which help us to improve the lives of disabled people in the workplace.

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