Quality Officer

Faculty Office

We’re here to create and harness knowledge, to deliver opportunity for everyone.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a Quality Officer to join the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Medicine to:

• Coordinate the support for complex internal and external quality monitoring exercises as they impact on the faculty, ensuring that effective administrative support is provided for a diverse range of Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Bodies and external agency requirements.
• Support the Faculty Academic Governance and Quality Manager, Faculty Assistant Registrar and Associate Dean for Student Experience and Quality Enhancement with the development and monitoring of teaching and learning, quality assurance and enhancement processes in the faculty, reviewing policies and servicing formal committees.
• Monitor specific areas of the annual validation schedule, together with the appointment of external consultants for programme and module approval processes
• Work collaboratively with colleagues within the faculty and school administration/academic teams to contribute to the establishment of a cohesive and integrated team within the faculty and schools.

The post will be face to face on site based at our Ormskirk Campus, but there may be occasional travel to other sites such as Alder Hey, Aintree, and St James Manchester.

For informal enquiries about this vacancy, please contact: Susan Wilde, Faculty Academic Governance and Quality Manager at wildes@edgehill.ac.uk.

About You

As Quality Officer, you will:

• Have experience of working with professional or regulatory standards and/or quality assurance procedure
• Have experience in the use of Microsoft Office, including Word and Excel, to an advanced level
• Have experience of formal minute taking.
• Have excellent organisational and prioritisation skills which enable you to work efficiently under pressure, to meet competing deadlines and co-ordinate multiple projects.
• Be able to work on own initiative and use creativity to resolve problems.
• Have excellent organisational skills and attention to detail, together with the ability to prioritise to meet deadlines to the required quality standards.

At Edge Hill University we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.

Rewards & Benefits

• A minimum of 36 days annual leave per annum (inclusive of bank holiday and University closure days)
• Discounted membership to our onsite state-of-the-art sport and leisure facilities
• Staff benefits scheme, which provides you with discounts across the high street, supermarket shopping, cinema tickets, dining out and more.
• A wide range of development programmes to enhance your career.
• Beautiful award-winning on-campus working environment.
• Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme with our employer contribution of 17.8%

For more information on our rewards and benefits click here: Rewards and Benefits Package: Support Staff (edgehill.ac.uk)

About Us

At Edge Hill University we believe in the life changing opportunities knowledge can create. Since 1885, we’ve been creating access to knowledge for those who may not have had the opportunity to before.

Today, the effect we have has a far-reaching impact, not just for those who come to study here but for those who work, invest in, and live in our local communities too. So, if you’ve ever wondered if one person can make a difference, simply speak to our alumni, students, and award-winning staff.

Because for us education isn’t about how much you take in. It’s about what you take out into the world.

Inspiring minds and changing futures since 1885,Edge Hill University is “A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year” – Times Higher Education.