Role purpose
The role provides an opportunity for members of a college’s staff to consider the quality and standards of higher education across the college and to be part of a team testing the effectiveness of the college’s self-evaluation processes. Where colleges are considering revising internal review processes, participation in a Developmental engagement team may contribute to ways in which processes might be revised.
Key responsibilities include:
- reading, analysing and preparing written commentaries of the self-evaluation submitted by the college and any other documents sent in advance of a Developmental engagement
- adhering to the Developmental engagement schedule agreed between the college and the coordinator
- participating in the Developmental engagement to the college in order to gather, share, test and verify evidence
- drawing conclusions and making recommendations on the academic standards achieved and the quality of the learning opportunities provided
- recording evidence gathered from a variety of review activities and submitting this to the QAA electronic review folder in a timely fashion
- drafting sections of the report that are referenced to sound evidence gathered during the Developmental engagement
- respecting protocols on confidentiality
- contributing to and commenting on the compilation of the report of the review to agreed schedules and deadlines
- helping the college to draw up its action plan for implementation of the Developmental engagement team’s recommendations
- playing a lead role in the implementation of the action plan within the college
- being available for the whole period of a Developmental engagement for which they have been selected and committing to complete all processes of a Developmental engagement once they have embarked upon it.
Person specification: Institutional nominee
Knowledge and understanding include:
- experience, knowledge and understanding of higher education provision in general and within their own college
- understanding of the college structure, policies and procedures for managing and delivering higher education programmes
- familiarity with the Academic Infrastructure and other external reference points relevant to own area of expertise
- understanding of programme entry requirements and the ability to interpret progression statistics including withdrawal, transfer and failure rates and destinations data
- familiarity with academic support strategies and the functions of academic tutorials
- experience of examining and/or verification (and preferably external examining or external verification).
- understanding quality assurance processes employed by colleges providing higher education and familiarity with higher education programmes.
Skills include an ability to:
- conduct meetings with staff
- conduct meetings with a range of current and former groups of students
- write succinctly and coherently
- meet exacting timescales and deadlines
- work effectively as a member of a Developmental engagement team
- continue to work effectively as part of the college team after the Developmental engagement(s) has (have) been completed
- communicate electronically, including emails, attachments and use of web mail
- maintain confidentiality
- influence colleagues within their college and take forwards the action plan.
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