Manager Academic Quality Higher Education

**POSITION NUMBER**

3892
- **DEPARTMENT**

Educational Quality and Accreditation
- **ROLE TYPE**

Non-teaching
- **JOB TYPE**

Full time
- **CONTRACT**

Ongoing
- **LOCATION**

Preston
- **APPLICATIONS CLOSE**

02 October 2024**MANAGER ACADEMIC QUALITY HIGHER EDUCATION**:

- **Annual Salary $150,000**:

- **The Manager, Education Quality for Higher Education (HE) at Melbourne Polytechnic ensures the quality of higher education**:

- **Melbourne Polytechnic offer Flexible Working, this role is based out of our Preston Campus. We are close to public transport and provide secure onsite parking, onsite Café & restaurant with a gym facility, hair salon & we are only a 2 minute walk to Preston market.**

**About the Organisation**:
Melbourne Polytechnic is a learning organisation that has been delivering vocational training since 1912. Learning at Melbourne Polytechnic is a unique experience with an applied focus. delivered by teachers with real-world experience and expertise.

At Melbourne Polytechnic we are committed to providing high quality, innovative, applied and future focused, purposeful education and training to students, industry and communities. Our teachers are passionate and established in their professions and look guide students in theirs. We know that circumstances can create barriers to learning, so we offer our students personalised pathways, flexible study options and learning support.

**About the Role**:
The Manager, Education Quality Higher Education (HE) oversees the quality of the provision of higher
that supports process and policy design in relation to continuous improvement across all Higher
Education courses. This position maintains an overview of the regulatory compliance requirements in
matter expertise to Senior Management in relation to areas requiring additional development to achieve
compliance.
Melbourne Polytechnic has developed the Higher Education Scholarship Framework as an innovative
approach to scholarship. This position will drive the continued implementation of the HE scholarship
Framework, which includes HE Directorate improvement activities identified internally and through
external reviews. Manage the scholarship team to ensure a transparent and efficient administrative
system, lead the implementation of monitoring and evaluation which includes overseeing Melbourne
Polytechnic Scholarship board/committee reporting. Manage the team and promote a culture of
education excellence, continuous improvement and innovation. This position will oversee functions and
standards of Human and Animal ethics to ensure compliance is undertaken and evidenced.

Melbourne Polytechnic compliance is supported by a partnership between Academic Quality and the
directorates, where workplace positive cultural considerations are at the center of how we operate. As
such this role will be supporting multi directorates to ensure both a whole of institute perspective
alongside a Higher Education Directorate perspective with strategic advice and if change is required,
implementation of change management practices alongside.

Critically, this role supports course accreditation and re-accreditation process and review (Higher
Education Threshold Standards (2021) Institute Quality Assurance 5) and course professional
accreditation/registration.

**Duties**:
to maintaining HE standards, policies, and procedures.
- Preventing non-compliance with the HE Standards Framework by monitoring compliance and
provide complex advice and analysis to identify key risk areas.
- Lead a team to ensure regulatory compliance, quality learning and teaching outcomes are met in
the areas of HE Scholarship and Quality and Human and Animal Ethics.
- Drive the Scholarship reporting cycle across the Higher Education Directorate, which includes
ensuring the development of program scholarship objectives, assisting with the scholarship
overview associated with course accreditations; program scholarship plans and condition
reporting (MP Boards and committee reporting).

For a full list of key responsibilities and duties, please view the **position description**.

**Skills and Experience Required**:

- A current Working with Children Check Card (Employee).
- A master's or PhD in relevant field, or equivalent in relevant field and proven higher education
experience managing Quality and Compliance processes within a large and complex educational
organisation. Qualifications equivalent to Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) 9 or above
are desirable.
- Demonstrated experience in Quality Assurance, with proven expertise and current working
knowledge of Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) and Higher Education
Standards Framework (Threshold Standards) 2021 requirements.
- Demonstrated experience with institute reregistration, accreditation, and re-accreditation with
TEQSA and leading the response to Request for Information (RFIs).
- Demonstrated support for course professional accreditation / registration.

**How