SKETCH Manager

Department: Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Salary: £42,405 – £49,785 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance (Grade 5)
Reference: 1587
Location: Mile End
Date posted: 11 March 2024
Closing date: 29 March 2024

Further details and apply

Overview

About the Role

The post-holder will provide operational and strategic leadership for the SKETCH programme. SKETCH brings together six important student knowledge exchange projects and is currently comprised of six ‘pillars’, including the QM Legal Advice Centre, qLegal, the Student Consultancy Project, qNomics, QM Social Venture Fund and qTech.  

The post-holder will be the professional services lead for SKETCH and provide operational and managerial support for the Project Officers and the portfolio of activities within the programme. The focus of the role will be to work across and outside the university, involving working with external partners and clients and managing diverse stakeholder relationships, contributing to the KEF submission, collecting and analysing performance data and the creation and development of new project activities.

About You

The successful candidate will have significant experience of project and change management in managing student focused projects and/or working in a student-facing role and building stakeholder relationships with partner organisations. They will have a good understanding of academic processes and teaching and the stages of the student cycle in higher education.

About the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) offers top quality teaching by internationally recognised experts. Queen Mary was awarded Silver in the Teaching Excellence Framework Year 2 (TEF2) exercise in recognition of high-quality teaching, learning and outcomes for its students.

Within the Faculty we believe that collaborating with our students and working together as partners allows us to create an environment in which they can reach their full potential. We have invested in developing a wide range of modules linked to world-leading research to support our students in gaining a rich perspective.

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 including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

The post is based at the Mile End Campus in London. The starting salary will be Grade 5, in the range of £42,405 – £49,785 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.

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.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Jack Osborne at [email protected]

The closing date for applications is Friday 29th March.

Further details and apply