Academic Director of King’s Edge

Job id: 086525. Wage: Professorial Band 1, £80,324 – £99,420 each year, together with London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 19 March 2024. Cut-off date: 02 April 2024.

Enterprise unit: King’s Training. Division: King’s Academy.

Contact particulars:Samantha Smidt. [email protected]

Location: Strand Campus. Class: Tutorial & Instructing.

Job description

King’s has a long-standing mission to put the foundations by which our graduates make impression on the planet. That is current in Imaginative and prescient 2029 and Technique 2026 which set out a dedication to data with objective. This objective consists of that which our college students deliver, evolve and advance of their time with us. It’s not solely developed by means of the taught curriculum, however within the richness of alternative to study, expertise and do past the classroom. To make these alternatives extra express, and to assist our college students to learn from them, we’re creating King’s Edge.

Beneath the management of the Vice President (Training and Scholar Success), King’s Edge will draw collectively the varied parts of King’s co-curricular supply, extending and integrating it extra successfully into our schooling proposition. It’s going to assist college students to remodel actions reminiscent of volunteering, paid work, or SU engagement into credit score which might contribute to their diploma award.

King’s Edge will present a wealthy and vibrant supply for all college students. It’s going to invite them to construct their pupil journey in a extra particular person purposeful method and strengthen their sense of connectedness. King’s Edge will promote entry to alternatives and social connections for college students from under-resourced backgrounds, precedence teams, and people dwelling with a incapacity.

King’s is looking for an instructional chief who can deliver the imaginative and prescient for King’s Edge to life. They may develop the King’s Edge proposition and have interaction workers and pupil communities in its creation. They may construct the momentum required to grasp its institution and oversee its journey from a brand new initiative to a elementary a part of the King’s pupil expertise. The post-holder would require a powerful understanding of Experiential Studying and have expertise of main on related pupil expertise programmes and academic innovation. They might want to have senior management expertise inside an academic setting, significantly in navigating complexity and constructing the partnerships required to ascertain a brand new initiative.

The post-holder will work carefully with the Director of King’s Academy and the Vice-President (Training and Scholar Success).

We encourage functions from candidates who’ve expertise from each inside and outdoors of the Increased Training sector the place they’ll show the talents wanted to achieve this function.

This put up will probably be supplied on an indefinite contract.

This can be a full-time put up.

Key obligations

• Present strategic management to work with a variety of King’s tutorial {and professional} providers groups, in addition to college students, to develop the King’s Edge proposition and oversee its institution. 
• Present thought management on positioning college students as core to King’s excellence, slightly than beneficiaries of it by means of the harnessing of extra-curricular and co-curricular experiences to assist college students in constructing company, objective and intentionality. 
• Develop the attain of King’s Edge so it turns into a particular a part of a King’s schooling, with a selected give attention to benefiting college students from under-resourced backgrounds, precedence teams and people dwelling with a incapacity. 
• Set up the governance construction for King’s Edge and a course of for awarding credit score. 
• Determine and handle the monetary and workers assets required for King’s Edge.
• Create a method to judge the effectiveness of King’s Edge and report on its success.
• Use information to focus on King’s Edge alternatives in response to pupil aspirations. 
• Symbolize King’s and King’s Edge at exterior fora. 

The above checklist of obligations might not be exhaustive, and the put up holder will probably be required to undertake such duties and obligations as might fairly be anticipated throughout the scope and grading of the put up. 

Expertise, data, and expertise

Important standards

Proof of main pupil expertise programmes.

Expertise of integrating world-leading disciplinary studying with a porous prolonged curriculum, scaffolding unbiased and collaborative enquiry and the power to study adjunct expertise and data. 

In depth expertise of working at a senior stage and with a variety of stakeholders to enhance the academic expertise of scholars. 

Data of finest observe in Experiential Studying and academic innovation.

A capability to construct, maintain and develop relationships in any respect ranges, internally and externally, utilizing negotiation and affect to attain strategic aims. 

Skill to interact in collaborative working throughout King’s skilled providers, different schools, tutorial and pupil communities, with a significant and visual dedication to Variety & Inclusion insurance policies and practices. 

Skill to judge and use evaluative information to enhance observe.

Understanding of the political, social and financial components shaping the scholar expertise throughout the sector, and skill to use this understanding to the King’s context.

Fascinating standards

Report of outputs referring to Experiential Studying and academic innovation – i.e. participation and presentation inside networks and occasions associated to this space of labor.

This put up is topic to Disclosure and Barring Service clearance.