"""_________________________________________________________________________ FACULTY OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN LANGUAGES Job title Education Manager Department Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages Division Humanities Location 41 Wellington Square Grade and salary Grade 8 £45,585 - £54,395 per annum) Hours Full-time Contract type Permanent Start date As soon as possible Reporting to Head of Administration and Finance Vacancy reference 168944 Overview of the role With oversight of the progress of students from application to the conferral of degrees, the Education Manager will play a crucial role in the support of students and academic staff in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced manager to work in a large teaching faculty with some 1,100 undergraduate students, 60 PGT students, 100 PGR students and 80 academic staff. As Education Manager you will ensure the smooth operation of the Faculty’s academic administration activities encompassing undergraduate and graduate taught and research programmes, through accountable, responsive and supportive line management to the Education team (currently five FT staff). You will be responsible for balancing workload across the team; ensuring policy and processes are well documented and expertise shared to minimise risks; and you will drive a culture of continuous improvement and process refinement to ensure the provision of a seamless, effective service to our students and academics. You will develop a strong relationship with key Academic officeholders, including the Directors of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies, ensuring they are all well supported by the respective specialist staff. Alongside the Faculty Board Chair, Head of Administration and Finance, and Operations Manager you will form part of the Faculty’s Senior Management Team, responsible for ensuring the Faculty’s professional services team are well placed to provide seamless support for all of the Faculty’s strategic priorities. Key responsibilities 1. Provide accountable, responsive and supportive line management to the Education team. [UG Examinations & Admissions Officer (G7); Graduate Studies Officer (G6); Teaching Support Officer (G6); Year Abroad and International Agreements Officer (G6); Schools Liaison Officer (G6), plus any support posts within the team.] 2. Develop a strong relationship with senior office-holders (including the Chair of the Faculty Board, the Directors of Undergraduate, Graduate and Masters courses) ensuring they are all well supported by the respective specialist staff 3. Manage support for the annual academic cycle by balancing workload across the team, anticipating crunch points and other risk areas - ensuring expertise is shared across the team to develop staff and minimize the risk of single points of failure. 4. Ensuring policy and processes are fit for purpose and well documented and encouraging a culture of continuous improvement and learning from experience. 5. Ensure that equality, diversity and inclusivity are embedded in academic administration processes and that quality data exists for monitoring progress in these areas. 6. Support effective use of the Faculty’s governance structures to ensure decisions are made at an appropriate level and communicated effectively. 7. Work with the Academic officeholders/Division/central University on developments in education policy. 8. Work with the Academic officeholders and other colleagues on specific strategic initiatives or projects. 9. Develop a strong interface with Divisional staff to ensure the needs of the Faculty are well understood and supported by the Divisional team. 10. Represent the Faculty across the University at relevant Educational events, providing an interface between the Division and/or central Academic Services and the Faculty. Selection criteria Essential 1. An honours degree or equivalent professional development; experience and evidence of very strong intellectual and analytical skills. 2. Significant academic administrative experience in a higher education institution. 3. Proven evidence of contributing to strategic developments and leading on/collaborating on key projects. 4. Experience of line-managing and developing staff. 5. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex information and procedures effectively and persuasively at all levels, including to students and academic staff. 6. The ability to form effective working relationships, working in partnership with academic and professional services colleagues. 7. Excellent organisational skills, in following procedures, balancing workloads and keeping to timetables. 8. Accuracy and attention to detail in understanding, interpreting and following procedures, and judgement in handling confidential/sensitive cases. 9. Experience of improving systems, developing processes and identifying more efficient ways of working. 153527 – Education Manager Further Particulars 2 10. High level of computer literacy with expertise in MS Office packages, using spreadsheets and databases and appropriate platforms for the sharing of information. 11. Understanding of risk and the ability to raise it appropriately. Desirable 1. Experience of servicing committees/working within a democratic governance structure. 2. Experience/knowledge of the Oxford collegiate structure. 3. Experience of student management systems (for example e:Vision) and/or experience of educational technology (for example Canvas). 4. A demonstrable interest in modern languages and knowledge of a modern foreign language. 153527 – Education Manager Further Particulars 3 About the University of Oxford Welcome to the University of Oxford. We aim to lead the world in research and education for the benefit of society both in the UK and globally. Oxford’s researchers engage with academic, commercial and cultural partners across the world to stimulate high-quality research and enable innovation through a broad range of social, policy and economic impacts. We believe our strengths lie both in empowering individuals and teams to address fundamental questions of global significance, while providing all our staff with a welcoming and inclusive workplace that enables everyone to develop and do their best work. 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Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages The Faculty is one of the leading centres for the study of European language, literature, and culture world-wide, offering expertise in the entire chronological range from the earliest times to the present day, and with specialists in film studies, cultural studies, history of the book, and cultural history as well as languages and literatures. The Faculty offers expertise in French, German, Italian, Modern Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Polish and Czech, as well as in a range of other languages spoken in Europe. The Faculty is divided into seven sub-faculties: French & Francophone, German, Italian, Portuguese, Slavonic, Spanish and Modern Greek. There are c. 80 permanent academic members of staff, with a further 20 language lecturers, and 10-20 researchers and postdoctoral fellows employed by the Faculty. There are a further 50 faculty members in a range of college posts. The colleges, which are responsible for undergraduate admissions and undergraduate tutorial teaching, admit a total of about 270 students a year to read for the Honour School of Modern Languages and its joint schools with Classics, English, History, Philosophy, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and Linguistics. There are about 60 graduates taking taught Masters degrees, and about 120 research students. The Faculty has a professional services team of twenty staff covering academic administration, office support, premises, IT, finance and HR. Some members of this team are part of Humanities Shared Service functions and (along with seven other faculties and Divisional staff), the Faculty will be moving to the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities in the academic year 2025-26. There are opportunities for flexible working and most posts have scope to work from home for up to two days a week. Academic staff are largely college-based. The Faculty’s library and two larger teaching rooms are based at the Taylor Institution in St Giles. There are further teaching rooms and some academic offices at the 4 Faculty’s premises in 41 and 47 Wellington Square, and this is where the Professional Services team are housed. For more information please visit: www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk Humanities Division The Humanities Division is one of four academic divisions in the University of Oxford, each with a full-time Head and elected Board. The Humanities Division is distinctive for its depth and 5 breadth. Its activity spans nine faculties, one School and two independent research institutes: the faculties of Classics; English; History; Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics; Medieval and Modern Languages; Music; Asian & Middle Eastern Studies; Philosophy; and Theology and Religion; the Ruskin School of Art; the Rothermere American Institute and the Voltaire Foundation. Interdisciplinary links within and beyond the University are strong, extending to the social sciences, medical sciences and the natural and physical sciences. One of the largest centres for Humanities internationally, with over 800 members of academic and research staff, the Division offers world-class research and teaching, backed by the superb resources of the University’s libraries and museums, including the famous Bodleian Library, with its 11 million volumes and priceless early book and manuscript collections, the Pitt Rivers Museum, the History of Science Museum and the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. Such historic resources are linked to cutting-edge agendas in research and teaching, with an increasing emphasis on interdisciplinary study and digital Humanities. The outstanding quality of Humanities research at Oxford is recognised globally. This reputation for research excellence contributes to the University coming top of several international rankings for Arts and Humanities, including the US News and World Report rankings and the QS World University Rankings by Subject. The Division’s faculties are among the largest in the world, enabling Oxford to offer an education in Arts and Humanities unparalleled in its range of subjects, from music and fine art to ancient and modern languages. The Division has responsibility for over 4,000 undergraduates (a third of the University’s total undergraduate population), and for over 2,000 postgraduate students (over 1,100 doctoral students and some 900 Master’s students). Twenty-nine undergraduate courses are offered in Humanities subjects, seven of which are offered jointly with the other academic divisions. The Doctoral and Master’s programmes offered are distributed across all of the Division’s faculties, along with a suite of Master’s courses offered with the Social Sciences Division and a growing portfolio of Master’s courses that draw from across the Humanities. The Division is part of the Open-Oxford Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership. The Humanities Division has embarked on a major building project on the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, supported by a £185 million gift to create the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. For more information please visit: http://www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/ How to apply Applications are made through our online recruitment portal. Information about how to apply is available on our Jobs website https://www.jobs.ox.ac.uk/how-to-apply. Your application will be judged solely on the basis of how you demonstrate that you meet the selection criteria stated in the job description. 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