The Academic Manager should be a highly qualified member of the Management Team. The Academic Manager must have the ability to lead the different departments with special emphasis on academic delivery, maintains records and serves as a liaison when needed. The Academic Manager should work with all stakeholders to fulfill the vision and mission of GIFS.
Role and Responsibilities
• CHE Accreditation experience
• Coordinates Accreditation Process and ensure that all audit requirements are met
• Oversees the implementation and management of the curriculum
• Creates templates for reporting across the functional areas
• Facilitate all academic planning and develop academic calendars
• Liaison between head office and academic staff
• Work closely with Programme Managers on governance, evaluations and support
• Understands and able to navigate using a student LMS
• Supervising academic quality assessment periodically
• Ability to benchmark against other providers and make recommendations on best practice
• Monitors student performance, identify students at risk and provide retention plans for student success
• Create bi-monthly reports
• Monitor academic performance, conduct reviews and make recommendations on improvements
• Oversees the observation and evaluations of all staff members under his/her management area
• Strong research ability, able to interpret statistics and make informed decisions
• Create a repository for academic policies, procedures, committee activities and documentation
• Ability to chair meetings, document and report on decisions
• Ability to deal with student queries and provide support in this regard
• Provide leadership to all other staff daily
• Conduct all other duties as assigned