Regional Head of Learning and Education

ACCA is committed to a workplace culture which is inclusive, diverse, human and connected.

We're currently recruiting a Regional Head of Learning and Education on a full-time, fixed-term basis until 31st March 2027. We are flexible on the location of this role throughout the UK.

The Regional Head of Learning & Education (RHOLE) will be responsible for devising regional strategies for, and ensuring the development and implementation of professional learning and education services in the region to include; ensuring that ACCA is recognised as part of national education and qualification frameworks, increasing the quality of tuition provision, carrying out activities to improve student performance and progression in exams, supporting student to member conversion initiatives;

scanning the professional learning and development landscape for members; and supporting or leading on high level relationship management with strategically important, regional learning and education partners.

On a day-to-day basis you will:

• Implement appropriate learning support in the market with both students and partners
• Act as a conduit in ensuring that solutions developed to support students and partners are relevant and appropriate
• Monitor exam entry levels and coordinate activities to ensure achievement of targets
• Support faculty at learning providers to improve student exam outcomes
• Support the relationships teams in devising and delivering the agendas for educational conferences, ensuring appropriate directorate support and involvement is sought where necessary
• Support or lead on the high-level relationship management with a small number of regionally important ALPs and/or universities to ensure that the RHOE is close to the market and the needs of learning providers
• Ensure the development of appropriate professional development support and ACCA Learning to support member development and satisfaction
• Ensure local relevance of global solutions developed to support members
• Work with the regional director and market heads to develop and implement the education strategy for region, and for individual markets within region
• Review and interpret data/analytics on performance for education providers to advise market heads on where to focus their attention
• Input into the market and regional ACCA business plans, advising the market heads to create their annual plan of education related activities that will maximise student outcomes
• Contribute to the development of ACCA's global educational policies and products to ensure they meet the needs both of national markets and ACCA's global quality assurance standards
• Work with national and regional regulators to ensure that the various ACCA qualifications are recognised as appropriate on national and regional qualification frameworks
• Support education providers in determining how to revise their syllabi to achieve appropriate exemptions or accreditations for their programmes or to incorporate ACCA papers into their syllabi
• They will work closely with universities to support ACCA's universities' delivery and provide support to them from accreditations to the development of parallel/'bounded' programmes (where appropriate)
• Work with the recognition team to support achievement and maintenance of Mutual Recognition Agreements in market with other professional bodies
• Work with the accreditation team to review and monitor learning providers and provide accreditation support, advice and guidance for learning providers seeking initial approval.

We're looking for someone with:

• A postgraduate or professional accounting qualification holder with relevant work experience in the professional education industry, ideally with international exposure
• A strong understanding of professional education, preferably in accountancy and a very good understanding of stakeholder needs; a good technical understanding of ACCA's qualifications
• Excellent and demonstrable track record in collaboration to achieve success
• Demonstrates commercial and business acumen and ability to deliver tangible outcomes through working with others
• Demonstrates a personal presence, commands respect from others and builds effective working relationships with others quickly
• Experience of formulating strategy and developing and improving structures and processes to enable delivery of the strategy
• Knowledge and experience of managing stakeholder relationships
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written) with the ability to communicate effectively with both internal and external stakeholders
• Highly motivated, proactive and enthusiastic, with the ability to work on own initiative
• Background in cross-functional working and demonstrate good influencing and negotiating skills
• Experience in achieving results through others - a collaborative team player
• Articulate, presentable and professional with experience of effectively presenting to large groups and at conferences
• Experience in motivating and managing people across a global portfolio; an…