[Hiring] Academic Lead - Law & Criminal Justice @Online Education Services

Role Description

As an Academic Lead, you will provide academic and operational leadership across a portfolio of units within our Law discipline. Your role will involve ensuring an exceptional online learning experience for students and maintaining the highest standards of academic quality. Leading a team of Online Learning Advisors, you will drive teaching excellence, support continuous curriculum improvement and act as a key escalation point for complex academic matters.

You will work closely with university partners and internal stakeholders and will play a critical role in delivering quality outcomes, fostering staff capability, and ensuring compliance with higher education standards and partner requirements. This is a full-time role and remote based role.

• Lead the successful delivery of a portfolio of units, ensuring a high-quality student learning experience and compliance with OES and university partner academic standards.
• Drive academic quality and continuous improvement by overseeing quality assurance processes and facilitating collaboration between teaching and learning design teams.
• Provide expert guidance and resolution for complex academic matters, including student escalations, complaints, and academic integrity issues.
• Develop and lead a high-performing team of Online Learning Advisors, fostering teaching excellence, capability development, and a strong student-centred culture.
• Use performance and engagement data to optimise teaching operations, improve service delivery, and ensure timely, high-quality feedback for students.
• Build strong partnerships with university stakeholders and internal teams, supporting strategic initiatives, maintaining academic quality, and delivering positive partner outcomes.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate qualification in business, education management or a law related discipline or equivalent professional expertise.
• Extensive experience teaching and leading law subjects or programs within a higher education environment.
• Proven academic leadership experience, including oversight of academic quality assurance, curriculum governance, and compliance with higher education standards.
• Demonstrated people leadership capability including experience in performance management, performance reviews and recruitment of staff.
• Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills, with the ability to interpret student metrics and implement targeted improvement initiatives.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills.

Benefits

• Join a passionate, energetic and highly skilled team.
• Gain exposure to many growth and development opportunities.
• Be part of a values-driven, collaborative business where your creativity and innovation will be nurtured and celebrated.