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About the Role

The Faculty Manager is responsible for the operational management of the faculty workforce, ensuring Academic Schools are appropriately resourced, supported, and managed to deliver an outstanding student experience. This role leads on workforce planning, recruitment, onboarding, workload coordination, cover arrangements, performance management, staff wellbeing, employee relations, compliance, staff development coordination, and operational delivery, acting as a key link between Academic Schools and professional service departments. The Faculty Manager focuses on people management and operational implementation, not academic leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead faculty workforce planning across all schools to ensure appropriate staffing levels.
• Work with Programme Leaders, Head of Programmes and Deans to identify current and future staffing requirements.
• Coordinate teaching resource allocation and workload planning.
• Monitor faculty utilisation, capacity and deployment.
• Ensure appropriate cover arrangements are in place to minimise disruption to students.
• Support succession planning and workforce risk management.
• Lead and coordinate faculty recruitment activities across all schools.
• Contribute to the recruitment and selection of academic staff across all schools through participation in interview and assessment panels.
• Ensure recruitment processes are fair, inclusive and compliant.
• Work with Heads of Programmes, Programme Leaders and Deans to assess academic suitability and subject expertise.
• Support talent pipeline development and workforce planning initiatives.
• Coordinate comprehensive onboarding programmes for all new faculty.
• Ensure completion of mandatory induction and compliance training.
• Facilitate introductions to institutional systems, policies and procedures.
• Coordinate academic induction activities delivered by Programme Leadership within Schools.
• Monitor probation objectives and onboarding effectiveness.
• Ensure new faculty receive appropriate support and mentoring.
• Support the coordination of faculty development activities throughout the employment lifecycle.
• Facilitate staff participation in professional development programmes and mandatory training activities identified by academic leadership.
• Promote awareness of and engagement with Advance HE, digital learning initiatives, and institutional staff development opportunities.
• Support the monitoring of development needs arising from appraisal, probation, and performance review processes.
• Assist in the implementation of talent development and career progression initiatives.
• Support initiatives aimed at enhancing faculty engagement and staff experience across the School.
• Coordinate faculty feedback and staff voice mechanisms, ensuring themes and actions are reported to the Head of Programme and Dean for consideration and action.
• Conduct regular one-to-one meetings with faculty members to discuss operational matters, workload, wellbeing, and professional support needs.
• Maintain appropriate records of one-to-one meetings and monitor progress against agreed actions.
• Support the Head of Programme and Dean in the setting, monitoring, and review of performance objectives.
• Monitor compliance with institutional expectations, policies, mandatory training requirements, deadlines, and operational responsibilities.
• Contribute to probation, appraisal, and performance review processes.
• Identify operational, performance, or wellbeing concerns and coordinate appropriate support and development interventions.
• Monitor the implementation of agreed action plans arising from probation, appraisal, and performance review processes.
• Support staff engagement with professional development opportunities and institutional initiatives.
• Escalate performance, conduct, capability, wellbeing, or operational concerns to the Head of Programme, Dean, and Human Resources as appropriate.
• Provide management information and reports relating to faculty performance, compliance, workload, and staff development to support decision-making by academic leadership.
• Provide day-to-day management support to faculty.
• Support attendance management and wellbeing initiatives.
• Manage informal employee relations matters.
• Work with HR to address grievances, conduct concerns and capability matters.
• Promote a positive and inclusive working environment.
• Support implementation of wellbeing and engagement strategies.
• Ensure faculty compliance with institutional policies and procedures.
• Monitor completion of mandatory training and regulatory requirements.
• Support compliance with OfS requirements, partner requirements and institutional regulations.
• Maintain accurate staffing and compliance records.
• Support audits and quality assurance reviews.
• Support the implementation of decisions relating to teaching delivery, academic operations, and programme administration.
• Coordinate the communication of academic and operational requirements, ensuring faculty members are informed of decisions, priorities, policies, and actions agreed by academic leadership.
• Support the implementation and monitoring of enhancement actions identified by the Dean, Head of Programme, and Programme Leader arising from teaching observations, student feedback, quality reviews, external examiner reports, and other quality assurance processes.
• Ensure faculty members are aware of and comply with institutional policies, procedures, deadlines, mandatory training requirements, and operational expectations.
• Identify and escalate operational issues that may impact programme delivery, student experience, or staff performance to the appropriate academic leader.
• Work collaboratively to support the effective delivery of programmes and the achievement of school and institutional objectives.
• Coordinate faculty resignation, retirement and termination processes.
• Ensure all offboarding activities are completed.
• Conduct or coordinate exit interviews.
• Analyse exit data and identify workforce trends.
• Work with HR to ensure compliance with employment legislation and institutional procedures.
• Ensure recovery of institutional assets and removal of system access.
• Support workforce transition planning.

Requirements

• Successful applicants will be required to complete pre-employment checks, including a criminal records check, two references, ID and Right to Work verification, and education confirmation.

Skills

• Workforce planning
• Recruitment
• Onboarding
• Workload coordination
• Cover arrangements
• Performance management
• Staff wellbeing
• Employee relations
• Compliance
• Staff development coordination
• Operational delivery
• People management
• Resource management
• Succession planning
• Workforce risk management
• Recruitment and selection
• Talent pipeline development
• Onboarding and induction
• Faculty development
• Staff engagement
• Performance management
• Employee relations
• Wellbeing initiatives
• Compliance and governance
• Academic operations support
• Employee lifecycle management
• Offboarding

Equal Opportunity

• We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion, selection for employment is based solely on an individual’s skills, qualifications, and experience relevant to the role.