Regulatory Quality Manager

TL;DR

Regulatory Quality Manager (Education): Supporting compliance with Further Education requirements and planning for future regulatory frameworks with an accent on quality assurance, academic governance, and regulatory compliance. Focus on developing policies, monitoring effectiveness using data, and preparing for audits and external reviews.

Location: Home based, UK (with occasional travel to our London office)

Company

Education technology company enabling corporate and government organisations to upskill workforce in digital transformation and AI era using patented AI learning platform EDUKATE.AI.

What you will do

• Support and lead quality assurance and enhancement activities aligned with institutional quality cycle, regulatory requirements, and validation processes.
• Develop, implement, and maintain academic quality policies, processes, and documentation.
• Provide professional support to academic governance structures, including preparing papers, reports, and servicing meetings.
• Assist in regulatory registration, post-registration engagement, external audits, and validations.
• Support programme lifecycle processes, curriculum design, assessment strategies, and annual monitoring.
• Contribute to data analysis for quality assurance, learner outcomes, and reporting to regulators.

Requirements

• Substantial experience in regulatory body quality assurance across FE/HE frameworks
• Strong knowledge of Further Education requirements (especially apprenticeships), UK Quality Codes, regulatory frameworks, and academic governance.
• Experience in programme approval, modification, periodic review, annual monitoring, validation, and external reviews.
• Experience advising on academic standards, assessment, external examining, and curriculum design.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to analyse data for quality enhancement.

Nice to have

• Experience with Ofsted and DfE regulations.
• Experience working with or within an Awarding Organisation.
• Experience in FE/HE data submissions or TEF-related activity.
• Knowledge of apprenticeship or work-based FE/HE provision.

Culture & Benefits

• 25 days holiday + flexi bank holidays + birthday off + holiday buy back (up to 10 days).
• Pension with 4% matched contributions and salary sacrifice option.
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave, private medical insurance, health & wellbeing allowance (£30/month).
• CPD allowance, quarterly reflections, employee assistance programme.
• Volunteering day, annual events, company socials, and team building.