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    "description": "<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Job Title:            </span>Head of Professional Accountancy<span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><br>Reporting to:     </span>Griffith College Director<span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><br>Location:           </span> Griffith College Dublin<span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><br>Job Type:           </span>Permanent, Full-Time</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: underline\"><br></span><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Job Summary</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Griffith College was established in 1974, initially to provide excellent accounting training to students undertaking professional examinations with accountancy bodies such as ACA and ACCA. 52 years later, we are still a leading provider of ACCA programmes in Ireland.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">The Head of Professional Accountancy at Griffith College is a senior role holder, who is responsible for the continued growth and development of the accountancy programme offerings. The role covers direct management of all part-time lecturers, support staff and on-line resources. The role also play a pivotal part in driving innovation, fostering industry partnerships, and ensuring Griffith College’s ACCA programmes are distinctive, future-focused, and aligned with the needs of learners and employers.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Key Responsibilities</span></span><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: underline\"><br></span><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Programme Leadership</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Provide overall management of the ACCA programmes, ensuring the highest standards of teaching, student support and examination success.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Lead, motivate, and develop the professional accountancy team to achieve excellence in performance and innovation.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Enhance administration, systems and processes within Professional Accountancy.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Business Performance &amp; Strategic Growth</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Take responsibility for the financial performance of the Professional Accountancy department, including budget management, cost control, revenue generation and growing the profitability.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Develop strategies to increase learner recruitment, retention, and satisfaction.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Identify and pursue growth opportunities through new market development.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Benchmark Professional Accountancy against competitors to ensure it has clear, distinctive, and market-leading strengths.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Innovation &amp; Differentiation</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Develop and articulate a 2030 vision for Professional Accountancy, in the context of the College’s vision, mission and values and strategic plan.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Identify and implement unique selling points (USPs) that make Professional Accountancy at Griffith College, the best in class nationally and internationally.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Drive innovation in programme delivery, and learner engagement, ensuring it adapts to changing market and educational trends.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Industry &amp; External Engagement</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Build and strengthen relationships with professional bodies, industry partners, accountancy firms, and all employers, to ensure we maximise all opportunities.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Continue to develop strong relationships with ACCA and be their ‘go-to educational partner’ for all new initiatives.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Promote collaboration and engagement with employers to ensure Griffith is a first choice for accountancy students receiving company sponsorship.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Promote ACCA opportunities to existing student groups in Griffith College and other institutions.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Professional Body Governance and Compliance</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Lead ACCA Approved Learning Partner compliance (on all delivery modes), annual renewal, results service submissions, monitoring reviews, and implementation of any actions arising.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Protect and strengthen Platinum status through subject planning, targeted performance interventions, preparing learners for exams, mock exams and roll out of digital learning platforms to support learners.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Person Specification</span></span></span><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><br></span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Qualifications</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Hold a professional Accountancy qualification or equivalent qualification in a relevant discipline.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Experience</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Proven experience in programme management at a senior level.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Demonstrated success in financial and business management, including growth and profitability.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">A history of building strong industry and external partnerships.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Demonstrated capacity for innovation and strategic thinking.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Skills &amp; Competencies</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Strategic mindset with a proven ability to deliver change in line with the College strategy.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Proven ability to inspire staff, part-time lecturers and learners.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Strong business acumen and commercial awareness.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Excellent communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">High levels of initiative, creativity, and problem-solving ability.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Commitment to learner-centred education.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Contractual Terms</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">The role is subject to a maximum 6 month probation period.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">The package structure will place significant emphasis on commission-based remuneration, designed to incentivise and reward substantial increases in performance metrics and market expansion.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">About Griffith College</span></span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">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.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Founded in 1974, Griffith College is Ireland’s largest independent third-level institution, with a community of over 8,000 students across its campuses. The College delivers a broad range of undergraduate, postgraduate and professional programmes across disciplines including business, law, computing, journalism, design and pharmaceutical science.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">What sets Griffith apart is not only its commitment to high-quality education, but the culture that underpins it. Staff regularly speak about the strength of the relationships they build here, the trust between colleagues, the willingness to support one another, and the opportunity to contribute to an organisation that has meaningful impact on students from Ireland and internationally, working alongside people who genuinely care about what they do and who they work with.</span><br></p>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Our Vision</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\"><br></span><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">‘To be recognised among the leading, innovative and socially enterprising of Ireland’s universities”</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Why work for Griffith College?</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; 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