Director of Learning

• Responsible for the development and launch of new Higher Education and licensure products; with a particular focus upon pedagogy, course structure and content and quality assurance.
• Working cross functionally with BARBRI teams, tutors and SMEs to ensure new courses are delivered efficiently to deadlines and are of a superior quality.
• Undertake research into new product options, providing legal and academic insight into new course strategies or existing course structures.

• Responsibility for existing programme and course updates and implementing ongoing product development.
• Ensure all courses reflect current SRA/regulatory requirements and maintain accreditation where required.
• Overall responsibility for the quality assurance of course delivery and any associated actions.
• Subject matter expert for annual course updates or new content in designated subject areas.
• Participating in course delivery as required.
• Responsibility for Personal Study Plan (PSP) course design process.
• Collaborating with the Operations Team to ensure effective scheduling and delivery of existing courses.
• Review of student and client feedback and associated actions.
• Dealing with student or staff complaints.

• Line management, QA and development of designated Learning Team staff.
• Recruitment and training of internal and external faculty staff.

• SQE1 & SQE2 Train the Trainer delivery for licensing partners.
• Assisting with marketing events and collateral.
• Assisting the BD and University Partnership teams with tenders, pitches and partner monitoring meetings.
• Assisting the sales team with product specific enquiries and providing product updates.
• Attending regulator meetings.

• Member of the Management Team and Academic Board.
• Safeguarding officer.

• UK Lawyer (Solicitor or Barrister).
• Teaching and learning experience in the legal professional higher education market (preferably a Fellow of Advance HE or hold a PGCE in Higher Education).
• Experience in course design and review, particularly in the development of online learning programmes.

• Demonstrates deep interest in trends in legal education, learning science and educational technology.
• Understanding of the needs of an undergraduate, postgraduate and professional legal audience.
• Experience coordinating/managing multiple, concurrent projects.
• Proven ability to work in a geographically distributed virtual team environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to communicate appropriately and professionally with students, internal staff and external stakeholders.
• Ability to line manage a small team.
• Ability to develop strong and effective working relationships across cross-functional teams.
• Seasoned, flexible and motivated team player with a growth mindset and bias for action.
• Ability to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner and gather and analyse information skillfully.

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