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SALARY: Up to £42,000 FT, plus benefits and pension
JOB TYPE: Permanent
HOURS: Full time, 37 hours per week
LOCATION: Stevenage Campus
About the Organisation:
North Hertfordshire College (NHC) is a leading Further Education provider delivering high quality programmes from entry to higher education level. We are proud to be part of the University of Hertfordshire consortium, offering our students opportunities to progress and succeed. Our commitment to excellence ensures students achieve their goals and staff are supported to thrive in a collaborative and innovative environment.
About the Role:
We are seeking a highly motivated and knowledgeable professional to join us as a Higher Education Manager.
This pivotal role will lead, contribute to, and support the strategic development of the College's High Education portfolio, ensuring alignment with the college’s ambitious 5-year strategy, as well as our regional sector priorities.
You will play a key role in enhancing and growing our HE provision by identifying opportunities for innovation, progression, and curriculum development that respond to employer and learner needs. The postholder will also represent the College at external HE-relevant sector events, building strong partnerships and promoting the College’s HE offer. Working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, you will champion the development of new HE provision at NHC whilst ensuring our Higher Education provision remains responsive, high-quality, and future-focused.
This role will have responsibility for quality assurance, quality improvement, and act as the lead primary link with the University of Hertfordshire consortium. The successful candidate will ensure compliance with external regulations, support developments in teaching and learning, and maintain a consistently high-quality student experience.
If you are passionate about Higher Education in a Further Education setting and have a strong track record in quality assurance, regulatory compliance, and partnership management, we would love to hear from you.
Job Purpose:
To lead, manage and oversee the College’s Higher Education (HE) provision, ensuring the highest standards of quality assurance, quality assurance, quality improvement, regulatory compliance and student experience across all HE programmes. The postholder will act as the key liaison with the University of Hertfordshire consortium, ensuring that all partnership responsibilities, reporting and academic standards are met.
This role carries responsibility for ensuring compliance with external Higher Education regulatory frameworks and authorities, including the Office for Students (OfS), Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), awarding bodies, external examiners, and other statutory or professional regulators as required. The postholder will drive continuous improvement in line with national and sector expectations, ensuring that provision is of high quality, inclusive, and responsive to the needs of students, employers, and the wider community.
Through effective governance, monitoring and enhancement activities, the Higher Education Manager will safeguard academic standards, champion excellence in teaching and learning, and provide assurance to senior leaders, governors, consortium partners and regulators that the College’s HE provision remains robust, compliant and of consistently high quality.
Safeguarding Statement
The Hart Learning Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, as our posts are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. It is also an offence to apply for a role if you have been barred from working with children, young people and vulnerable adults. If you have been shortlisted for a role and are within the guidelines of KCSIE, an online search will be carried out to identify any incidents or issues that have happened and are publicly available online. If any incidents or issues are identified, the Group might want to explore these with you at the interview. As part of the recruitment process, you will need to provide proof of their right to work in the UK.