About this role
Job Purpose The Student Success Partner is a fixed-term strategic role established to accelerate the implementation of the Oxford International Student Success Framework across the Academic Partnerships Division. Working in partnership with colleges, the postholder will diagnose barriers to student success, challenge existing practice where necessary and support the design and implementation of evidence-informed interventions that improve continuation, retention, achievement and progression. Using organisational intelligence the Student Success Partner will work directly with college leadership teams to translate insight into action, embedding sustainable improvements in student engagement, academic support and student success. The role will act as a trusted but challenging improvement partner, building local capability whilst ensuring that organisational expectations for student success are consistently achieved. College Partnership & Enhancement Undertake diagnostic reviews of student success practice within colleges. Identify barriers to continuation, retention and progression. Provide constructive challenge to existing approaches and recommend evidence-informed improvements. Support the Academic Partnerships Division to redesign student success processes where current practice is not delivering expected outcomes. Work intensively with colleges requiring additional support to accelerate improvement. Student Success Framework Drive forward implementation of the Student Success Framework across the network. Coordinate improvement projects arising from the framework. Ensure consistent adoption of agreed approaches. Monitor implementation and remove barriers to delivery. Intervention & Improvement Support colleges to design and implement interventions to improve attendance, engagement, continuation and progression. Support local action planning in response to identified risks. Promote evidence-informed practice. Coaching & Capability Coach college teams in student success practice. Facilitate reflective practice. Challenge existing approaches where evidence indicates that improvement is required. Support leaders to implement sustainable organisational change. Build local capability so improvements continue beyond the duration of the role. Evaluation Work with the Student Outcomes Manager to evaluate interventions. Identify and disseminate effective practice. Support continuous improvement projects. Governance Contribute to reports and presentations. Maintain effective university partnerships. Success Measures Demonstrable improvements in college student success practices. Evidence that targeted interventions have improved continuation, retention or progression. Increased organisational capability to sustain evidence-informed student success activity. Successful transfer of knowledge and resources to colleges prior to completion of the fixed-term appointment. Improved student success practice across colleges.