Nanchang Joint Programme Administrator: Teaching & Learning

About the Role

We are seeking a Joint Programme Administrator to manage the teaching and learning logistics, student records, assessments, and educational administration of the Biomedical Sciences and Clinical Medicine Joint Programme between Queen Mary University of London and Nanchang University (NCU), China. Based at Queen Mary’s Mile End campus, the role includes occasional travel to Nanchang.

This pivotal role ensures the smooth operation of the programme, handling student records, exams, and the virtual learning environment. Responsibilities include managing student data, supporting academics with educational administration (e.g., QMPlus, Subject Examination Board data), and fostering collaboration with Queen Mary colleagues. The role requires proactive, independent work with direction from the leadership team, prioritising efficient and pragmatic administration. Given its impact on students and staff, this role offers high job satisfaction

About You

We seek an experienced and motivated administrator, ideally with experience or interest in Higher Education, educated to degree level or equivalent. The ideal candidate is proactive, adaptable, and eager to improve processes in a dynamic academic environment.

The role involves occasional travel to China (once or twice per year for up to two weeks), providing an opportunity to engage with both UK and Chinese educational settings.

Essential Criteria:

• Experience in independent decision-making in an administrative role.
• Familiarity with HEI procedures, ideally adapting to UK and China’s Higher Education regulations.
• Strong IT skills (spreadsheets, databases, web management, social media, formal writing).
• Student-focused approach, effectively communicating procedures to diverse staff.
• Excellent organizational skills, balancing priorities and meeting deadlines.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project

The partnership between Queen Mary and NCU was formed in 2013 with the launch of the Biomedical Sciences Joint Programme (JP). This programme has grown from strength to strength, enrolling over 1,250 students per year and regularly praised for its high quality. This role will support the educational and learning delivery of the JP and support the continued development of the partnership.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.