Education and Accreditation Executive

**Job Purpose
To support the delivery of the RICS education and qualification standards, including our relationships with universities and education providers.

**Key Achievements & Responsibilities
- Ensure RICS accredited programmes meet our education standards
- Ensure RICS ‘approved’ education programmes (e.g. apprenticeship training programmes) meet our requirements
- Accurately record education provider and programme information
- Deliver a positive experience of RICS accreditation processes for education providers
- Independently organise and lead accreditation meetings
- Calibrate/analyse education programmes for suitability/matching to RICS education and qualification standards
- Support the development of quality audit and assurance frameworks to maintain the consistent standards of our education and qualification activities
- Assist with policy and process development and guidance, documentation and process mapping
- Organise meetings, write board papers, minutes, attend and present at meetings
- Ensure accreditation data is recorded accurately and records are transferred and stored securely
- Provide knowledge and technical advice
- Provide an educational research/best practise benchmarking capability to the team
- Coordinate requests for data information from education providers, providing analysis and reports, including accredited programme data, assisting with consultation responses
- Coordinate and administer education provider meetings

**Experience Required
Essential
- Experience of quality assurance, or working in either higher education, or a professional body context
- Experience of presenting information and data in formats for a range of audiences, including policy and report writing skills
- Experience of working with limited supervision, ability to work independently
- Good organisational and time management skills
- Ability to think critically, analyse data, and present effectively
- Good computer skills, including the use of MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Project and others)
- Good team worker who works collaboratively
- Communicates clearly and concisely, in an engaging way that suits different audiences
- Confidence to challenge when a situation is not working
- Prioritising work to ensure deadlines are met Adapts previous approaches differently for new situations

Desirable
- An understanding of education activities and its role in the professional qualification process
- Experience or knowledge of the real estate and construction industry, its role and its impact in society and the economy

**Who Are We?**

As a globally recognised professional body, everything we do is designed to effect positive change in the built and natural environments. Through our respected global standards, leading professional progression and our trusted data and insight, we promote and enforce the highest professional standards in the development and management of land, real estate, construction and infrastructure.

Our work with others provides a foundation for confident markets, pioneers better places to live and work and is a force for positive social impact. With over 134,000 highly qualified trainees and professionals, and offices in every significant financial market, we are ideally placed to influence policy and embed our standards within local marketplaces in order to protect consumers and businesses.

In doing so, we can innovate and progress the development of spaces and places so they are fit for future generations, in addition to the challenges faced in the present.

Please make sure you have the correct right to work in the country the role resides in.