GIL Academic Manager

Job Summary

The Academic Manager (AM) plays a key leadership role in ensuring the smooth and efficient delivery of English language programmes. The AM works closely with the programme team, marketing, and class representatives to maintain high academic and service standards for both students and staff.

The AM is responsible for programme coordination, academic integrity, quality assurance, and pastoral care. This includes oversight of learner performance and progression, teaching, learning, and assessment strategies.

Job Responsibilities

General

• Provide academic leadership by maintaining and enhancing excellence in teaching, learning, academic integrity, and programme delivery.
• Work proactively to improve existing programmes and contribute to the design and development of new initiatives.
• Ensure an exceptional learner experience, supporting learner progression, retention, and overall satisfaction.
• Participate actively in meetings.
• Work effectively and collaboratively as part of an integrated team, demonstrating a commitment to educational quality, learner support, and service excellence.

Teaching & Learning:

• Encourage teachers to engage with students through virtual learning platforms and forums (e.g., Moodle).

Students / Pastoral Care

• Act as a point of contact for all students, providing guidance and support for academic, pastoral, and administrative matters.

Programme Management

• Have overall responsibility for the programme ensuring that module descriptors, course handbooks, CPD schedules and academic calendars are kept up-to-date and made available to all involved.
• Ensure adherence to all relevant quality assurance policies and procedures related to programme management as per the Quality Assurance and Enhancement Manual and Documented Course Framework as well as ILEP, ACELS and TrustEd criteria.
• Participate in the collection, analysis, and review of feedback from teachers and students.
• Meet regularly with line manager, programme team, students, and class representatives to address concerns promptly and effectively.
• Support teachers in the delivery of their module e.g. assessment design, pedagogy, Moodle, and academic integrity.

Administration

• Actively engage with relevant learner management systems and virtual learning environments to monitor learner progression and engagement.
• Ensure familiarity with and compliance to institutional policies.
• Arrange a teaching observation & appraisal schedule and observe the teaching team, offering critical and meaningful feedback.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 3 years’ relevant ELT experience.
• Degree qualified at NFQ level 7 minimum is essential with master’s degree in ELT teaching training / education desirable
• CELTA qualification or equivalent
• Applicants whose first language is not English must have, as a minimum, a C1+ - C2 CEFRL level of English
• Strong leadership with excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Effective time management, strong attention to detail, ability to multitask.
• Experience in working with diverse cultures.
• Be highly organised with meticulous attention to detail.

About Griffith College

Griffith College is a welcoming, ambitious and people-focused institution where the quality of the working environment is shaped as much by the people as by the purpose. Across our campuses in Dublin, Cork and Limerick, colleagues work in supportive teams where professionalism, mutual respect and collaboration are part of everyday life. Founded in 1974, Griffith College is Ireland’s largest independent third-level institution, with a community of over 8,000 students across its campuses. Nestled on a leafy five-acre campus on Wellington Road, just moments from Cork city centre, our campus is a welcoming and accessible space where staff and students alike can truly thrive.

We take pride in our strong sense of community, our teams are approachable, supportive, and always ready to lend a hand. Open communication and mutual respect are at the heart of everything we do, fostering a collaborative environment where everyone’s voice is valued.

We value initiative, encourage ideas, and actively support professional growth. Whether your role is academic, operational or professional services, you will have the opportunity to build a fulfilling career while contributing to an organisation that has real impact on the lives of students from Ireland and across the world, working alongside people who genuinely care about what they do and who they work with.

Our Vision

‘To be recognised among the leading, innovative and socially enterprising of Ireland’s universities”

Why work for Griffith College?

• Competitive salary package
• Access to the College’s pension scheme
• Access to healthcare plans for employees and their families
• Enhanced maternity leave pay

• Flexible working arrangements in line with the College's remote working policy
• Access to ongoing Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes, up to Doctorate level
• Subsidised College programmes to support career development and upskilling.
• Opportunities for staff mobility through Erasmus+ and other international mobility programmes

• Mental Health and Wellbeing supports available
• Cycle to Work scheme

• Vibrant, multidisciplinary and multicultural learning environment
• Inclusive and diverse community
• Innovative and agile place to work
• Welcoming environment committed to both learner and staff development
• Staff discounts and offers from a wide range of retailers and service providers
• Preferential accommodation rates during the summer period for staff, and for friends and family of staff at Griffith Rooms in Dublin.
• Year-round staff social and wellbeing events, including BBQs, coffee mornings, wellness talks, EDI events, and more

• Free parking facilities.

This job description is not to be regarded as exclusive or exhaustive. It is intended as an outline of proposed areas of activity and will be amended in the light of the changing environment within the Faculty and the College.

Griffith College is an equal opportunities employer. Candidates must be eligible to work full-time for any employer in Ireland.