Manager: Institutional Accreditation

MANCOSA, a DHET registered and CHE accredited private higher education distance education provider, offering undergraduate and postgraduate Education qualifications, has the following vacancy available.

**Manager**: Institutional Accreditation & Compliance

CORE PURPOSE
The Accreditation and Compliance Manager is responsible for ensuring all internal compliance related to accreditation is aligned to higher education regulatory requirements and any other relevant regulations. The Manager is required to perform a wide range of accreditation and compliance services to the institution in support of effective governance, accountability and performance in order that the institution at all levels operates effectively.

CORE FUNCTIONS
The successful appointee will be responsible for delivering on important accreditation and quality assurance projects, including but not limited to:
Accreditation
- Provide leadership on national reviews, accreditation and compliance requirements by ensuring the institutions policies, systems and procedures are effective and fall within the accreditation and regulatory requirements.
- Lead teams, provide clear expectations and handle the needs of the staff members who work under the Accreditation & Compliance Manager.
- Create mechanism to promote and continuously improve core academic functions.
- Manage and maintain registration and accreditation status in SADC regions.
- Manage registration and accreditation of higher education partnership institutions.
- Oversee the work of the Accreditation and Compliance unit and manage tasks and activities in terms of accreditation, reaccreditation, site visits, institutional research and programme review and development.
- Successfully manage and coordinate conditions responses, representations, improvement plans.
- Manage institutional preparations for site visits and institutional audits.
- Assess and improve accreditation processes in areas of responsibility.

Compliance
- Provide leadership on the implementation of all regulatory requirements and in doing so conduct an annual internal institutional regulatory compliance review.
- Ensure the completion of all reporting requirements and submission of the DHET Annual Report in adherence to the guidelines provided by the DHET.
- Manage the verification of SAQA records and overseeing NLRD uploads to the HEQCIS according to the standardised template issued.
- Develop and maintain an auditing programme around compliance for the institution.
- Identify and assess potential compliance-related risk areas and a compliance and risk mitigation programme around all related compliance activities to detect, prevent, and resolve issues.
- Maintain a schedule of all compliance related activities across the institution and follow-up on completion of these activities across all departments.
- Develop policies and procedures for the institution on compliance.
- Collect and maintain compliance data.
- Lead the planning, coordination and facilitation of successful Site Visits
- Attend appropriate meetings, conferences or workshops held by regulatory bodies and provide feedback.

Quality Assurance Framework (QAF) and Institutional Audits Framework (IAF)
- Provide leadership, guidance and oversight of quality promotion and capacity development, institutional audits, standards development, national reviews, programme accreditation and re-accreditation as well as institutional adaption and change management aligned to QAF and Framework for Institutional Audits
- Conduct gap analyses in context of the QAF and Institution Audit Framework
- Ensure that the implementation of the Continuous Improvement Plan and align the improvements to the QAF and IAF.
- Ensure that successful audits are conducted on the implementation of improvements that was identified in the continuous improvement plan.
- Design, the development and implementation of the digital Quality Assurance Management System (QAMS).
- Workshop stakeholders, review and implement improvements to the QAMS.

Capacity Building
- Develop a strong team to enable the accreditation and compliance deliver on its mandate.
- Restructure teams and workloads in accordance with operational and academic requirements.
- Identify training and development opportunities for Monitoring and Evaluation team and implement succession plans.
- Identify critical skills essential for the quality service delivery of accreditation & compliance unit and take the responsibility for further development of relevant and essential skills to improve team’s performance.
- Implement compliance workshops across the institution, inclusive of a regional roadshow

Stakeholder Relationship
- Build and sustain relationships with key external regulatory bodies.
- Facilitate internal and external stakeholders’ to:

- develop detailed project plans related to the institutional audit / site visit
- review and edit compliance & quality assurance documentation
- provide expert in put for the institutional