Partnerships Governance and Compliance Manager

Overview

In this role you will provide strategic leadership for quality assurance and governance of City St George’s collaborative provision and partnership-based learning. You will oversee governance across the full partnership lifecycle, manage risks, and advise senior stakeholders to ensure regulatory compliance. You will lead the Partnerships Governance and Compliance sub-function, directing a small team and aligning delivery with institutional priorities. This role supports safeguarding academic standards while shaping how partnerships contribute to the university’s mission.

Pay / Benefits

• sector-leading salary
• pension scheme
• staff training and development
• hybrid working
• commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion

Responsibilities

• Lead partnership quality and governance across the lifecycle (approval, validation, monitoring, review).
• Oversee complex partnership projects, manage risks and dependencies, provide authoritative advice to senior stakeholders.
• Ensure governance and regulatory compliance are embedded in partnership activity.
• Manage the Partnerships Governance and Compliance sub-function, supervising one Senior Officer and two Officers.

Key requirements

• Extensive knowledge and experience of programme validation, approval, monitoring and review in higher education.
• Strong understanding of collaborative provision, academic governance and quality assurance.
• Ability to interpret complex regulatory requirements and balance competing priorities and risks.
• Excellent communication, professional judgement and relationship-building; experience supervising staff and leading workstreams.

• strong communication
• professional judgement
• relationship-building
• academic governance
• quality assurance
• regulatory compliance

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