Quality and Compliance Manager

Glasgow Kelvin College is seeking Quality & Compliance Manager to play a key role in maintaining and enhancing robust quality assurance and compliance processes across the College.

Reporting to the Head of Enhancement & Assurance, you will lead cross‑college operational implementation of the Tertiary Quality Enhancement Framework, ensuring curriculum teams understand, adopt, and consistently apply required processes. You will work collaboratively with managers and staff across the College, providing support and constructive challenge to identify risks, address areas of non-compliance and drive continuous improvement.

The role will involve supporting the College’s preparation for external scrutiny and review, including TQER, Education Scotland reviews and awarding body verification.  You will also work with a range of quality assurance evidence and data to identify trends, monitor improvement actions and provide clear, evidence based reporting.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is committed to high quality learning and teaching and who can help drive a culture of continuous improvement across the College

Key Responsibilities

• Leading internal quality audits and compliance checks across curriculum areas.
• Supporting the implementation and ongoing development of the College’s Quality Enhancement Framework.
• Monitoring compliance with internal quality processes and awarding body requirements.
• Identifying risks and ensuring appropriate actions and improvement plans are implemented.
• Supporting preparations for external quality reviews, verification and scrutiny activity.
• Analysing quality assurance evidence, learner feedback and performance information to identify areas for improvement.
• Working closely with Curriculum Managers and Senior Curriculum Managers to support consistent quality standards.
• Delivering training, briefings and guidance to staff on quality processes, internal verification and compliance requirements.
• Supporting the development and maintenance of the College Quality Handbook and associated quality documentation.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Knowledge:

Demonstrable knowledge of:

• Quality assurance and compliance processes within further or higher education, or other regulated environments.
• Awarding body requirements, including Qualifications Scotland verification processes.
• External quality frameworks such as TQER, TQEF, and Education Scotland reviews.
• Curriculum, learning, teaching, and assessment processes in educational settings.

Skills and Competencies:

• Ability to lead quality audits, compliance activities, and improvement initiatives.
• Strong organisational skills with high levels of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and support colleagues.
• Excellent analytical and report-writing skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.

Experience:

• Experience of quality assurance activities within education or a similarly regulated sector.
• Experience working with awarding bodies and compliance requirements.
• Experience supporting or leading internal verification, assessment quality processes, or curriculum quality activities.

Benefits

Why work at Glasgow Kelvin:

• Access to a generous Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Hybrid working (dependent on the needs of the service).
• Annual Leave – 33 days per annum plus 12 public holidays.
• A professional development review process and continuous learning opportunities.
• Extensive professional and personal development opportunities.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Mileage Allowance for College business travel.
• Employee Assistance Programme providing 24-hour wellbeing support.
• Flexible Working and Family Friendly Policies.
• Enhanced Sick Pay entitlement.
• A wide range of wellbeing activities and access to sports and fitness facilities

About Glasgow Kelvin College

About Glasgow Kelvin College:Glasgow Kelvin College seeks to provide learning opportunities of the highest quality, which engages learners from the widest range of backgrounds, and supports their progression to employment or to further study. We play a vital role in providing accessible vocational and core-skills learning and you will have the opportunity help us create progression opportunities for learners and makes a positive impact on the communities we serve.

We deliver high-quality programmes, from introductory to degree level, to around 15,000 students each year from three campus buildings in the North and Northeast of Glasgow and through a large network of community-based centres. The College works with partners to create inclusive progression opportunities in a vibrant and sustainable environment for our learners.

Roles within the College are subject to the Protection of Vulnerable Groups Scheme and as such the successful candidate(s) will be required to make an application for membership under the Scheme.

At Glasgow Kelvin College, we are committed to fostering a workforce that reflects the diverse society we serve. We believe that our strength lies in our differences, and we actively seek to attract talent from a wide range of backgrounds. Our goal is to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to reach their full potential.

We are dedicated to being an employer of choice by prioritising diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing. Our inclusive policies and practices ensure that every team member experiences a strong sense of belonging and can thrive both personally and professionally. We are a Disability Confident employer and guarantee to interview applicants who meet the essential job requirements. 

Join us at Glasgow Kelvin College and be part of a team that celebrates diversity and champions inclusion. Your unique perspective and experiences are not just welcomed—they are essential to our collective success.

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