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Chief Academic Officer

Alison is seeking to have join our senior management team, a global expert in curriculum development and design. The successful candidate will likely be a PhD level practitioner with a background in the commercial development of standards relating to the provision of education and training programmes. The goal of the position will be to ensure that Alison provides the best academic experience possible for our students from various walks of life. Our platform works with those upskilling those employed in professional and industry occupations, to school leavers, university and college students, and the unemployed. Alison has graduates in every country worldwide, so our approach and ambition is to create new global standards of learning across all areas of empowerment. 

Job Description 

A significant part of responsibility will be to lead the development of Alison`s suite micro-credentials for life long learning and employability. With over 6 million graduates with a run rate of close to 8,000 new graduations per day, Alison is one of the worlds largest providers of micro-credentials. Micro-credentials are a key innovation to make learning accessible to everyone worldwide for free. Whilst Alison has developed its own robust academic system, we are interested in exploring how Alison micro-credentials can engage with existing education , training , labour market systems and how we might integrate them into existing practice and policy frameworks. We are interested in making learning at every level available to anyone for free on any subject and in any language , including special effort to social inclusion among disadvantaged learners.

Essential in the application process is a cover letter telling us why you wish to work for Alison and why you believe you are an exceptional candidate to be considered for a leadership role in the business in this area.

 

Job Requirements

- PhD level achievement in Education, curriculum design or the equivalent.

- A minimum of 7 years experience in a related commerical environment.

- A background in online digital education.

- An open mind and an ambition to disrupt current education & training systems.

- We are open to the position being based remotely. The position will report directly to the CEO.

 

Application

All Applications must be accompanied by the following:

  • A Short Introductory note.

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    A Cover letter outlining why you want to work as part of the Alison Team and what you might uniquely bring to the team to help us achieve our mission.

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    An Up-to-Date CV. 

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    Include your Alison ID Number in your Cover Letter (If you have never logged on to our site, you should not be applying for a job with us! You can easily find your Alison ID in your Alison Dashboard).

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