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 Schooling. Division: King’s Academy.

Contact particulars:Samantha Smidt. [email protected]

Location: Strand Campus. Class: Educational & Instructing.

Job description

King’s has a long-standing mission to put the foundations by which our graduates make influence 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 contains that which our college students carry, evolve and advance of their time with us. It isn’t solely developed by way of the taught curriculum, however within the richness of alternative to be taught, expertise and do past the classroom. To make these alternatives extra express, and to help our college students to learn from them, we’re growing King’s Edge.

Below the management of the Vice President (Schooling and Scholar Success), King’s Edge will draw collectively the assorted parts of King’s co-curricular provide, extending and integrating it extra successfully into our training proposition. It’ll help college students to rework actions corresponding to 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 provide for all college students. It’ll invite them to construct their scholar journey in a extra particular person purposeful manner and strengthen their sense of connectedness. King’s Edge will promote entry to alternatives and social connections for college kids from under-resourced backgrounds, precedence teams, and people residing with a incapacity.

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

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

We encourage purposes from candidates who’ve expertise from each inside and out of doors of the Larger Schooling sector the place they will reveal the abilities wanted to reach this function.

This put up might be provided on an indefinite contract.

This can be a full-time put up.

Key tasks

• 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, reasonably than beneficiaries of it by way of the harnessing of extra-curricular and co-curricular experiences to help 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 training, with a specific concentrate on benefiting college students from under-resourced backgrounds, precedence teams and people residing with a incapacity. 
• Set up the governance construction for King’s Edge and a course of for awarding credit score. 
• Establish and handle the monetary and employees assets required for King’s Edge.
• Create a method to judge the effectiveness of King’s Edge and report on its success.
• Use knowledge to focus on King’s Edge alternatives in response to scholar aspirations. 
• Characterize King’s and King’s Edge at exterior fora. 

The above checklist of tasks might not be exhaustive, and the put up holder might be required to undertake such duties and tasks as could moderately be anticipated inside the scope and grading of the put up. 

Abilities, data, and expertise

Important standards

Proof of main scholar expertise programmes.

Expertise of integrating world-leading disciplinary studying with a porous prolonged curriculum, scaffolding unbiased and collaborative enquiry and the flexibility to be taught adjunct abilities and data. 

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

Data of greatest apply 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 goals. 

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

Capability to judge and use evaluative knowledge to enhance apply.

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.