Education and Quality Officer

Queen Mary University of London - School of Environment and Society

Placed On: 12th March 2026

Closes: 29th March 2026

Job Ref: 9227

About the Role

The School of Environment and Society are pleased to announce that we are seeking an exceptional individual to take up the role of Education and Quality Officer (Distance Learning).

This role is responsible for the school’s post graduate distance learning programmes. The role plays a key role in coordinating and organising the education and student experience of the DL programmes.

About You

As a key member of the Distance Learning Team, you will provide a highly professional and efficient service ensuring the School’s delivery of all Distance Learning programmes and digital short courses. You will play a key role in coordinating and organising the quality assurance, student experience as well as supporting the distance learning team with all programme activities. The post holder will support the Education and Quality Manager and the Distance Learning Director and with various teams within QM to ensure a student experience is delivered to all students.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Norman McBreen at n.mcbreen@qmul.ac.uk.

About the School

The School of Environment and Society at Queen Mary University of London is made up of three academic departments, History, Geography and International Relations. The School has been newly formed and has circa 150 academic staff. It is home to a highly diverse cohort of students and offers a broad-ranging and methodologically plural curriculum in all three academic departments.

Queen Mary offers a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

The School welcomes applications from women, ethnic minority, neuro-diverse candidates and candidates with disabilities. 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. All applicants will be assessed fairly against the same criteria and will be shortlisted according to experience and merit as appropriate.

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.