Academic Practice Taught Programmes Manager

Queen Mary University of London - Office of the Principal

Placed On: 7th April 2026

Closes: 21st April 2026

Job Ref: 9117

About the Role

Are you an experienced education specialist passionate about supporting and empowering educators in higher education to improve learners’ experience and outcomes? If you are ready for an exciting next step, this role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on teaching and learning at Queen Mary University of London.

In this role, based within the Queen Mary Academy, you will play a central part in delivering our university-wide academic development portfolio. Reporting to the Head of Education Programmes, you will lead and contribute to the delivery of the Certificate in Learning and Teaching (CILT) and the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP). You will support curriculum enhancement across the university through workshops, online resources, and tailored consultative support for Schools and Institutes.

This position contributes to institution-wide academic development and professional recognition initiatives, offering a rewarding opportunity to make a lasting impact on teaching and learning at Queen Mary.

About You

You will have experience in higher education teaching and academic development including designing, delivering and evaluating programmes for adult learners. You are an effective facilitator, confident providing constructive feedback and supporting professional growth.

You bring skills in curriculum design, blended and online learning, assessment, and have strong knowledge of the UK HE context and PSF2023. You are highly organised, detail focused and able to coordinate multiple workstreams. Strong communication, collaborative working and the ability to create high quality digital and in person learning resources are essential.

A proactive, collegial mindset and the ability to inspire learners are key.

About the Academy

The Queen Mary Academy offers development opportunities to academic, teaching staff, at all stages of their career, from teaching assistants through to the professoriate.

Guided by the University’s 2030 Strategy and associated enabling plans, the Academy delivers development programmes that enable the delivery of an inclusive educational environment where students and staff flourish and reach their true potential.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.