Academic Partnerships Development Manager

What makes Goldsmiths unique?

Goldsmiths is a world-renowned university that has a reputation for rigorous and innovative academic work; creativity has long been our hallmark. Academic excellence and imaginative course content combine to make a place where creative minds can thrive.

About the Department

The International Development and Academic Partnerships team (IDAP) is responsible for identifying, developing, approving, delivering, monitoring and reviewing Goldsmiths’ academic partnerships, both domestic and international. The team ensures that new and existing partnership arrangements meet Goldsmiths’ responsibilities to students and align with appropriate academic standards and quality expectations.

About the Role

Reporting to the Head of Academic Partnerships, this role’s primary responsibility is to deliver Goldsmiths’ partnership strategy and drive the development of new partnership activities. This post will project manage academic partnership activities, from initial set-up, to ongoing management of the successful delivery of partnership programmes, including maintaining the quality assurance and academic standards. The post holder will engage with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, both within the UK and internationally.

About the Candidate

This role is ideal for someone who is passionate about academic partnerships, and has excellent communication and organisational skills. The successful candidate will have experience in developing and/or managing institutional-level UK and international academic partnerships. A solid understanding of academic partnerships and Transnational Education within the UK Higher Education sector is also essential.

Benefits

We have generous benefits – an agile working environment, 28 days’ annual leave plus 6 paid closure days (4 at Christmas and 2 at Easter) plus all Bank Holidays, great transport links, a defined benefit pension scheme, support for professional development and a broad range of wellbeing initiatives such as staff choir, running club and creative writing classes.

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