Regulatory Compliance Manager

About Us  

The King’s community is dedicated to the service of society. King’s Strategic Vision 2029 sets out our vision for the future, shaped around five priority areas: educate to inspire and improve; research to inform and innovate; serve to shape and transform; a civic university at the heart of London; and an international community that services the world. Our ambitious Education Strategy sets out the actions that we must take to transform how we teach, how and where our students learn and how we support them during their time with us. 

Academic Regulations, Quality and Standards (ARQS) forms part of the Student Operations division. We have a broad remit covering development and oversight of King’s effective and impactful quality assurance framework, compliance, and governance support, through to regulatory and policy review and ensuring processes and systems are fit for purpose. Referencing the frameworks of external bodies such as the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) and the Office for Students (OFS), we undertake a broad range of activities to meet both external requirements, such as supporting quality assurance reviews, and activities designed to meet King’s needs, for example, programme reviews and programme approval processes. 

We are part of the Students & Education Directorate, a collection of wide-ranging professional services in place to support King’s students and their education. As a directorate we manage the student lifecycle from application to graduation and beyond, to ensure a coherent and seamless student experience and effective administrative processes, working closely with King’s faculties to do so. 

About the Role

We have an exciting opportunity for someone looking to develop their career in higher education, communicate with a wide range of colleagues across the university and who wish to utilise their skills and expertise in academic regulatory compliance. This is an opportunity to grow your skills in university academic policies, regulation and quality assurance. 

We are seeking to appoint a knowledgeable and experienced individual to work within the ARQS team who will work with colleagues from across the College to oversee King’s regulatory compliance with the Office for Students and consumer law, as well as adherence to the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) frameworks. See key responsibilities for further information.  

We encourage applications from candidates who have experience from both within and outside of the Higher Education sector where they can demonstrate the skills needed to succeed in this role. 

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract. 

This is a full-time post, but we welcome applications from candidates seeking a flexible work pattern within our necessary service operating hours (10am-4pm).

This is currently a hybrid working role with both work from home and on campus. The role will be based in our department, currently on the Waterloo campus
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•       Building strong working relationships with relevant colleagues across King’s, to ensure compliance with the Prevent Duty, Competition & Markets Authority (CMA), and aspects of OfS ongoing conditions of registration requirements relating to Education & Students by:  

providing subject knowledge expertise and advice to colleagues across King’s;  

• managing responses to OfS consultations that impact teams in Students and Education; 
• producing briefings for senior management and relevant areas of King’s on relevant policy changes, requirements of registration and consultations from the OfS; and  
• managing the review and dissemination of policy and process documentation relating to these compliance obligations. 

•       Maintaining and enhancing processes for monitoring compliance with the Education & Students elements of the institutional requirements for ongoing OfS registration; Consumer Law, and the Prevent Duty; and for providing relevant committees with annual reports on compliance. 

•       Providing secretariat support to relevant committees and oversight groups relating to the post. 

•       Supporting and leading on the delivery of projects or change initiatives that relate to OfS conditions of registration, CMA, and the Prevent Duty, including stakeholder engagement, training and communication. 

•       Actively participating in regional, national and/or international professional networks relevant to OfS registration, Consumer law in the HE context, and the Prevent Duty. 

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.  

Please clearly address how you meet the
essential criteria in your application, and where possible how you meet the
desirable criteria as well.

Essential criteria  

Desirable criteria

Please submit a personal statement when applying for this vacancy, clearly setting out how you meet the essential criteria, as this is how we shortlist applications. Learn more about how we recruit, including tips on writing your application and supporting statement on our website:  

https://jobs.kcl.ac.uk/gb/en/applying

Interviews will be held using Microsoft Teams and will consist of competency-based questions linked closely to the essential and desirable criteria mentioned here. 

Although we have made improvements over the last number of years, our team is still under-represented in terms of staff from global majority ethnicities, LGBTQ+ identities, and from people with disabilities. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, communities and industries, and are committed to employing a team that has diverse skills, experiences and abilities. 

Interviews are scheduled to take place in the week commencing 31st October