Associate Dean

1 week ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Kent Institute Australia Full time

About Kent


Kent Institute Australia (Kent) has been providing quality training and education to students for over 30 years and continues to grow and innovate.

Today, Kent is officially recognised as a leading provider of government-accredited Vocational (VET) and Higher Education courses, offering education to both local and international students.

Kent is proud to have helped over 10,000 local and international students get started in their career.

The Role


The Associate Dean is responsible for supporting the Executive Dean in planning and implementation of student-centered learning and teaching to ensure quality student outcomes.

This position requires the ability to monitor a broad range of academic courses in relation to current curriculum relevance and compliance; and to work with a diverse and dynamic team of academic and professional staff using an adaptive and strategic management approach to ensure a high quality of learning, teaching and support services are delivered.


Key Responsibilities:

Academic Leadership

  • Actively contribute and provide academic leadership advice regularly to the Executive Dean and Kent's senior executive as required, with particular focus on key activities identified in Kent's Teaching & Learning Plan.
  • Maintain regular communication and efficient reporting to the Executive Dean, other senior management and academic staff on all academic issues.
  • Monitor the current Teaching & Learning Plan to enact identified key priority activities related to various academic operational areas as designated in the expected timeframes at the discretion of the Executive Dean.

Academic Management

  • Ensure students receive qualified and accurate academic advice each Trimester to enable good academic progression through their course of study, including effective oversight of 'intervention strategies' in compliance with Kent's _Academic Monitoring and Intervention Policy & Procedures_.
  • Contribute to Kent's marketing and promotion strategy in liaison with the Executive Dean.
  • Attend and participate in relevant professional development, academic meetings and scholarly activities.
  • Undertake a minimum lecturing load of two classes per trimester or as negotiated with the Executive Dean

Key Tasks

Curriculum Compliance and Accreditation

  • Work with the Course Coordinators to coordinate all aspects of academic curriculum, compliance and accreditation.
  • In consultation with relevant stakeholders, review, implement and maintain processes to ensure best practice curriculum teaching material is regularly reviewed and managed adhering to Kent Policy & Procedures.
  • Ensure and lead academic accreditation criteria that is evidenced in practice and meets TEQSA standards.
  • Collate information and supporting documentary evidence to enable Key Performance Indicator reporting against Academic Unit Operations and any other Implementation Plans in a timely manner to ensure timelines are met as required for any meeting reports and/or governance committee level submission papers.
  • Maintain currency of knowledge in relation to quality assurance principles and practices and provide input to the development and collation of supporting evidence for an annual report to Academic Board in compliance with the Kent _Course Monitoring and Review Policy & Procedures_.

Curriculum Development

  • Support the Executive Dean in contributing to curriculum development and processes for the development for new courses.
  • Provide targeted support for course and unit refresh, in the context of curriculum design and constructive alignment in adherence to Kent Policy & Procedures.
  • Design resources and training materials to support curriculum design initiatives approved by the Executive Dean.
  • Provide Postgraduate Coordination for emerging Postgraduate Courses, including specialist teaching contributions.

Teaching and Learning Practice

  • Advise the Executive Dean on teaching staff quality matters, related to teaching and learning.
  • Ensure the individual teaching Units have a strong teaching and learning engagement focus.
  • Assist in evolving wider use of new technologies and enhanced learning methods with the academic staff.
  • Contribute to developing robust assessment practices providing effective feedback allowing students to improve their learning and progression.

Scholarship Development

  • Develop and support strategies to assist in teaching innovation and scholarship.
  • Develop mechanisms to promote staff scholarship development within a working group model.
  • Support professional development through coordinating and developing scholarship opportunities for staff.
  • Assist the Executive Dean in leadership of scholarly outcomes across the academic staff cohort.

Governance

  • Development and review of academic policies, procedures and forms to ensure sound internal controls and compliance with all regulatory requirements to be endorsed by the Executive Dean

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