Company: King's College London
Location: London
Job Description:
Overview
In this role you lead the educational strategy and operations for King’s Foundations within CIEL, guiding curriculum, pedagogy, and staff development to ensure excellent student outcomes. You will chair the Department Education Committee and collaborate with senior colleagues to align with wider institutional priorities. You address academic quality, governance, and change management across a complex portfolio. This is a high-impact position for shaping international foundation and pre-sessional provision at a world-class university.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic and operational educational leadership across King’s Foundations
- Ensure academic quality, standards and enhancement of all educational provision
- Chair the Department Education Committee and participate in CIEL Education Committee
- Represent King’s Foundations in institutional educational governance and leadership
- Deputise for the Director on educational matters and exercise delegated authority where appropriate
- Oversee curriculum, pedagogy, academic planning and staffing to support strategic objectives
Key requirements
- Master’s degree in relevant discipline
- Teaching Qualification
- Senior HEA Fellowship or working towards
- Proven education-focused scholarship with dissemination/impact
- Experience in international higher education (Academic Skills, Pre-Sessional or International Foundation provision)
- Programme Leadership experience (Director/Head of Programme) with team development
- Quality assurance and curriculum enhancement at department level with demonstrable impact
- Experience in governance, planning and resource management
- Experience in managing change and developing new programmes to enhance student support
- strategic leadership
- stakeholder engagement
- team development
- educational leadership
- curriculum development
- quality assurance
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Posted: October 22nd, 2026