Programme Manager (Flying Start)

Queen Mary University of London - School of Business and Management

Location: London

Salary: £44,288 to £51,755 per annum.

Hours: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Placed On: 18th August 2025

Closes: 8th September 2025

Job Ref: 6984

About the Role

We are looking to recruit an experienced administrator, who will manage and oversee the BSc Accountancy programme being run jointly with external partners, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).

The role will be responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the programme, and will oversee the examinations, work placements, admissions processes, timetable and other quality assurance processes. They will work closely with the Education Manager within the School to discuss and agree on strategies relating to education for the programmes and to manage the relationship with PwC and ICAEW.

The postholder will play a vital role in delivering a high-quality academic and placement experience, ensuring that all students benefit from a positive and professionally enriching journey throughout their time at Queen Mary.

About You

You will be educated to degree level or equivalent and have experience of managing teaching and learning activities or similar within Higher Education. You will have experience of managing teaching activities and programme management at either UG or PGT level within Higher Education.

Experience in developing and analysing policies and procedures is essential as well as the ability to inform decision making at a senior level. You will be a team player with excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills who also can balance competing pressures, deadlines and complex demands as is the ability to manage a team in a fast-moving environment.

About the School

The School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University London is internationally recognised for research and teaching. The School seeks to sustain and enhance a distinctive research and teaching profile and ensure a supportive and intellectually challenging business and management environment. The School has a range of both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, including programmes that are jointly run with other Schools. The School has over 2000 undergraduate students, and over 1000 postgraduate taught students.

Staff in the administration office work on campus a minimum of three days a week.

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, campus facilities and flexible working arrangements. 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.