Language an Higher Education Manager

Language and Higher Education Manager required for an international education, training, and quality benchmarking company.

Key responsibilities:

Project and portfolio management

• Managing selected projects, providing senior input to project analyses as relevant
• Effectively overseeing project progress of all other language and HE projects to ensure these are consistently delivered to quality, schedule, and budget
• Conducting effective quality reviews of project reports and other key outputs prior to client submission to ensure the methodology, analysis and findings can stand up to scrutiny.
• Effectively overseeing the project pipeline to plan and allocate projects to ensure effective and timely use of resources whilst giving scope where possible for individual development and progression.
• Effectively managing client expectations (directly and/or through project managers as relevant) throughout the project lifecycle, working to achieve positive client feedback whilst also maintaining our core principles of independent and ethical research.

Person specification:

• Excellent understanding of benchmarking and CEFR methodologies, and their application/adaptation potential for new, related projects.
• At least two years’ project management experience.
• Passion for international language or higher education, with at least three years’ prior relevant experience, or externally, working in either sector.
• Strategic thinking, demonstrating clear understanding of the potential implications/challenges/opportunities for the portfolio and the wider work of international projects.
• Effective interpersonal skills and the ability to create and maintain relationships with colleagues and clients of all levels.

Education and Qualifications:

• Required – Degree educated.
• Desirable – a teaching, TEFL or TESOL qualification or comparable experience

Employee Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, as well as an additional day off given between Christmas and New Year
• Company Pension scheme (the Company will match employee contributions up to a maximum of 6% of basic salary in the first year. Then the scheme becomes non-contributory with employer contributions of 10% leading to 20% based on years’ service)
• Life assurance of 3 x basic salary for members of the pension scheme
• Bupa Private Health Care Scheme with employee contribution
• Enhanced maternity pay with years of service.
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Annual discretionary performance-related bonus scheme (Pro-rata for part-time employees)
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Swapping of 3 bank holidays (Good Friday, Early May Bank Holiday, August Bank Holiday) to be taken on a cultural or religious date of significance
• Extra day of annual leave with 5 years’ service (pro-rata for part-time workers)
• Employee Ownership Trust:
  • As an Employee Ownership Trust, we do things a little differently from some other organisations. Every one of our employees has a voice and our people are highly motivated and committed. Our structure allows for our combined success as an organisation to be shared equitably across the Company. The trust is indirect, meaning that eligible employees are not shareholders directly, however they are held ‘in-trust’ by the Trust’s Board of Directors.

If this sounds like your next role, please contact Rhys on 07471902795 or Rhysj@rerecruitment.com