Programme Director: BSc Professional Accountancy (Integrated Model)

Employment type: Fixed Term – 24 months

Hours Per Week: 17.5

The University of London is a leading UK provider of distance and digital education internationally, offering programmes to 45,000 students in 190 countries around the world. Although proudly rooted in London, our community and impact are global.

The Role

The Programme Director: BSc Professional Accountancy (Integrated Model is a key role supporting the development and delivery of our new programme which launches in 2026. The role will lead the academic development of the programme and ensuring that critical programme milestones of the programme development project are met.  Once the programme is live the role will oversee the smooth running of the programme.

This role is critical to the success of the programme and we would be keen for the successful candidate to begin the role as soon as possible.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Leading academic leadership of the BSc Professional Accountancy (Integrated Model) ensuring that academic and quality standards are applied, critical milestones of the programme development project are met, and the programme is successfully launched
• Being the lead academic at the academic approval event during the development phase. In addition, in preparation for academic approval, taking responsibility for the preparation of all programme documentation, including the programme regulations, specification, rationale and module specifications to submit for consideration by the Academic Approval Panel.
• Acting as an Academic Subject Expert to develop learning resources, and teaching and assessment strategy in accordance with the module specifications.
• Engaging with professional body partners to ensure academic content aligns with agreed parameters.
• Working with Marketing teams on the development of promotional marketing assets, including, but not limited to, a programme prospectus, promotional video and webinars.
• Ensuring the timely delivery of module content to the agreed deadlines in accordance with the University of London (UoL) Module Development process.
• Collaboration with UoL Learning Design and Development team, for ensuring that all final academic content is uploaded to the VLE platform as per agreed project delivery schedules.

This role works closely with the related Programme Manager, as well as Module Leaders and Online Tutors associated with the programme.

For a full role profile, please refer to the job description.

Further information

To be considered for this opportunity, please submit your application and CV (by clicking ‘Apply’ at the top of this page) before the closing date at midnight on Sunday 5^th January 2025. 

Interviews will take place on Tuesday 28^th January 2025.

The University reserves the right to close the vacancy earlier than the published end date should it receive sufficient applications to warrant earlier shortlisting.

The University currently operates a Hybrid Working framework involving a mix of working remotely and in the office. Typically, the majority of employees will be able to agree to work remotely for up to 60% of their working week, role dependent, however will be required to attend on specific days for training or team meetings.

The University of London is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive working environment where we can all be ourselves and succeed. We particularly encourage applications from members of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic communities as this group is currently under-represented at all levels within the University. All appointments will be made on merit, based on the criteria identified in the job description. 

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