Senior Quality Advisor

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About this role: This role is a professional administration role based within the central Academic Quality and Partnerships Enhancement Team (AQPET) at UWE Bristol. The team provides professional expertise and guidance to academic and other professional services colleagues across the University as well as at our Collaborative Provision partners based both in the UK and overseas. We support the development and operation of UWE Bristol’s broad and expanding portfolio of collaborative provision partners. We monitor the ongoing quality and enhancement of collaborative provision partners and ensure that the required policies and processes are in place and adhered to.

This role has responsibility for leading a team to achieve its goals.

We are a very friendly, lively, informed and dedicated team. New members are welcomed and made to feel at home from the outset.  

About you: We are looking for someone who has broad based administrative experience, and experience of working in line with complex regulatory frameworks such as higher education.  You will also have experience of line managing an individual or team. You will have good organisational, interpersonal, communication, leadership and IT skills. You will be self-motivated and able to motivate and influence others to achieve tasks by deadlines. You will be able to demonstrate a commitment to your own continuing professional development and to delivering outstanding learning and teaching for our students.  

You will need to be able to effectively balance a range of responsibilities in a flexible, autonomous and proactive manner, using your initiative and working with a variety of stakeholders across the University and our academic partners. A team player with a “can do” attitude, you will thrive in a demanding yet rewarding environment and will make an enthusiastic contribution to the Academic Quality and Partnership Enhancement Team and Student and Academic Services more widely. 

Where is this role based?

This post is based at our lively Frenchay campus where we have invested in the latest facilities and resources to give both our staff and students access to everything they need to succeed.

Why UWE Bristol?

We are one of the largest providers of Higher Education in the South West with 38,000 students and 4,000 staff from right across the globe. Based in Bristol , one of the UK’s most exciting and forward-thinking cities, we are regionally embedded and globally connected, with an established network of employer and academic partners.

We offer a wide range of employee benefits including progressive pay rates, generous annual leave and career average pension schemes as well as retail savings, onsite nursery and opportunities for training and personal development.

Add your individuality to ours

UWE Bristol recognises the power of a truly diverse university community .

We are proud to be part of a vibrant, multicultural city that celebrates diversity, we’re always looking for talented people from all backgrounds to join us. Our people are our strength, and diversity enhances our creativity and leads to better decision-making and problem-solving. Bring your talent and ambition to our growing community and find yourself in a stimulating and supportive environment where you’ll thrive.

We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian, Multiple Heritage or Other Minority Ethnic candidates as we are currently under-represented in these areas within UWE Bristol, however all appointments are made strictly on individual merit.

As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from those who identify as having a disability.

Further information

If you would like to speak to us to find out more about this role please contact Helen Dewar on 0117 328 1690 or email: [email protected]

or Harriet Castor on 0117 328 2421 or email [email protected]

Interviews are scheduled to take place at our Frenchay Campus in mid – late April.

This is a full-time, permanent post, working 37 hours per week.

This post is not available on a job share basis.

UWE Bristol is a campus-based University and it is vital to our success and the delivery of an outstanding experience for our students that our campuses are dynamic and vibrant places to learn and spend time. This role is therefore campus based for 3 days per week, with the opportunity to work from home on the remaining days.

To ensure fairness and equity all salary offers will be made in line with the University’s salary assessment guidelines and will be based on your relevant skills and experience.

We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role under the Home Office Skilled Worker visa route. As we are unable to sponsor anyone requiring a visa for this role candidates must therefore be able to provide their own right to work in the UK.

Should you be shortlisted you will be asked to provide your right to work documents at your interview. Please refer to the Home Office Right to Work Checklist which provides details of which documents are acceptable.

Please note that UWE does not cover any visa or health surcharge costs.

Advice to applicants

We’d love to hear from you – if you are excited about joining us at UWE please complete our application form as soon as possible.

Tell us about how your skills and experience relate to the requirements of this role by describing how you meet each of the essential and desirable criteria listed in the Person Specification section of the Job Description, and include specific examples wherever possible.

Once we have completed shortlisting we will let you know the outcome of your application by email, so please check your inbox for updates.