Assistant Provost

UK Management College – Office of the Provost – Assistant Provost (Learning, Teaching and Standards)

1. Role Purpose The Assistant Provost (Learning, Teaching and Standards) provides institution-wide strategic leadership for the quality, standards and enhancement of learning and teaching across UK Management College and every campus. The role sets and raises the standard expected of teaching, leads the institution's teaching enhancement and quality-assurance agenda, and is responsible for academic standards and regulatory readiness — ensuring alignment with the requirements of the regulator (the Office for Students), the partner universities (awarding bodies), the UK Quality Code and sector frameworks.

The Assistant Provost facilitates and leads the institution-wide teaching observation process and personally conducts observations as part of quality assurance and standard-setting. The role reports to the Provost and submits the Office Performance Plan (OPP) directly to the Provost.

2. Reporting Line Reports to the Provost. Works in collaboration with (in support of): the Dean, the Associate and Assistant Deans, the Head of Learning and Teaching, Course Directors and Course Officers, the Academic Integrity Office, the Academic Language and Learning Lead, the Employability and Career department, the Wellbeing and PAT teams, HR, the partner universities (awarding bodies) and the regulator.

Line management: the role does not line manage the Dean, it provides institution-wide professional and standards leadership in collaboration with the Dean's team.

3. Role Distinctions The learning, teaching and standards structure provides clear lines of leadership and accountability across all campuses, while preserving the Dean's authority. Roles include:
Assistant Provost — institution-wide leadership of teaching quality, academic standards and regulatory assurance; sets and raises standards; facilitates and conducts observations; works in collaboration with and in support of the Dean; reports to the Provost. Dean — retains full authority and line management for academic delivery and staffing across all campuses; line manages the Associate and Assistant Deans. The Assistant Provost supports, and does not supersede, the Dean.

Associate Dean — responsible for learning and teaching; line manages the Head of Learning and Teaching; sits within the Deanery under the Dean. Head of Learning and Teaching — leads the Learning & Teaching Office: strategy, training and CPD programme, annual conference and partner-university liaison; reports to the Associate Dean. Teaching Enhancement & Quality Assurance Lead — operational delivery of observations, developmental feedback, mentoring and coaching programme and quality-assurance checks.

4. Quality, Standards & Regulatory Alignment The role aligns the College's learning, teaching and academic standards, across all campuses, with the requirements of the regulator, partner universities, the College's quality framework, the UK Quality Code for Higher Education, the Advance HE Professional Standards Framework (PSF 2023), the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), and the Equality Act 2010 in relation to inclusive teaching.

5. Key Responsibilities