Company: City, University of London
Location: London
Job Description:
Overview
In this role you will lead governance and quality assurance for the University’s partnerships, ensuring alignment with institutional priorities and regulatory standards. You will guide complex partnership projects, manage risks, and provide authoritative guidance to senior stakeholders. You will head the Partnerships Governance and Compliance team, delivering high-quality workstreams that support strategic objectives. This position offers impact at institutional level, shaping how collaborative provision and partnerships uphold academic standards. You will operate in a formal, governance-focused environment that values regulatory excellence and cross-functional collaboration.
Pay / Benefits
- sector-leading salary
- pension scheme
- comprehensive staff training and development
Responsibilities
- Lead the University’s approach to partnership quality and governance across the full lifecycle (approval, validation, monitoring, review)
- Oversee complex partnership projects and manage risks and dependencies
- Provide authoritative advice to senior stakeholders on governance and compliance
- Lead the Partnerships Governance and Compliance sub-function, supervising 1 Senior Officer and 2 Officers
- Ensure high-quality delivery aligned with institutional priorities and regulatory requirements
Key requirements
- Substantial knowledge and practical 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, manage competing priorities and risks
- Influence and communicate effectively with senior stakeholders
- Experience supervising staff and leading partnership-related workstreams
- Strong communication
- Professional judgement
- Relationship-building
- Programme validation and quality assurance in higher education
- Regulatory compliance and governance
- Partnership lifecycle management
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Posted: October 17th, 2026