Academic Manager at GetSmarter

Job description

Key responsibilities

• Liaising with Talent Management with regards to teaching staff recruitment and employment contracts.
• Managing the budget for the courses that fall under his/her portfolio of courses.
• Conducting quality assurance of all Tutors and ensuring that they are implementing defined best practices during course presentation.
• Working closely with the Learning Design team to ensure effectively curriculum delivery.
• Training and upskilling Tutors on defined best practices for online teaching.
• Delivering onboarding and training for new Tutors.
• Monitoring and evaluating teaching staff performance against defined KPIs and conducting regular performance evaluations.
• Using learning analytics and performance data to manage Tutor performance and to improve teaching and learning across the course portfolio.
• Assisting in defining best practice for online teaching and learning at GetSmarter.
• Integrating with the Research Hub to conduct ongoing research (contributing a minimum of two publications per year) into online teaching and learning, with a focus on GetSmarter's practices.
• Identifying, communicating and rewarding exceptional teaching.
• Managing the annual evaluation schedule for teaching staff within his/her portfolio.
• Maintaining positive relationships between externally based Academic Staff and internally based GetSmarter Staff.

Job requirements

• A Postgraduate level qualification in Education, or similar.
• At least 2 years experience as an online teaching / facilitator OR 2 years experience in evaluating and managing the performance of educators.
• A keen passion for online teaching and learning.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Computer literacy, including competence in using word processing and internet browsing applications, as well as email management.