Academic Accreditation and Compliance Officer

Our Mission

We're building a category-defining company to increase the speed of innovation in higher education. Woolf's mission is to increase access to world-class higher education and ensure that it is globally recognized and transferable. We help qualified education organizations launch world-class higher education programs that issue academic credits and globally recognized accredited degrees.

Woolf University is a collegiate higher education institution modeled on the University of Oxford and Delhi University. We are the first global collegiate university to allow other education organizations to join as member colleges and issue degrees. Our colleges include some of the fastest growing EdTech companies in the world: UpGrad, Scaler, GoIT, EduBridge, AlmaBetter, and others.

Our Team

We are a globally distributed, fully remote team with a bias for action. Our team is mission-aligned, high EQ/low ego, and committed to excellence. Our investor group includes First Round Capital (who also led the investment for Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square), Connect Ventures, IOVC, All Access Fund, and Tribe Capital.

The Role

We are looking for a detail-oriented and systematic individual to help ensure the most robust quality assurance system ever built. You will work directly with senior members of the Academic Team and leading education organizations to help maintain our compliance records, with the opportunity for fast progression to greater responsibilities for the right candidate. We will prioritize operationally strong candidates with a proven attention to detail and willingness to learn the details of accreditation regulation.

Key Responsibilities

1) Quality Assurance

You'll be responsible for helping to maintain Woolf’s innovative quality assurance system, including regular review of learning materials to identify potential standards issues, as well as verifying educational documents from around the world.

2) Academic Administration

You will conduct compliance audits of Woolf’s colleges, ensuring that their records are up to date and free from abnormalities, and that their online presence complies with strict accreditation requirements. You’ll quickly develop a full understanding of Woolf’s accreditation and internal structure, and be able to quickly and carefully identify even subtle compliance issues.

3) Project Management

You must be able to manage large and complex projects with multiple workstreams and ensure that they are completed with minimal support. You’ll need to be self-activating: rather than waiting for an email reply, you’ll proactively reach out to the relevant person.

4) Instructional Design

You'll collaboratively help both senior and junior academics reduce complexity in their new academic courses and degree designs, with a keen understanding of how degree design will impact students and the future usability of the program.

5) Stakeholder management

You're ready to interact across cultural barriers with academic leaders, government officials, and others - all while remaining polite, patient, and cheerful despite challenges. You'll persist and remain goal-focused, even when others might be exasperated.

Requirements

• Graduate-level education
• Either a PhD or experience in law, regulatory compliance, policy-making, large grant applications, or similar role
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills
• You’re a meticulous, systematic, goal focused, and able to work with complex regulatory frameworks
• You're patient but persistent in the face of bureaucratic inertia
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Ability to distill complex information and communicate it effectively
• Strong, solution-oriented problem-solving skills
• Readiness to work in a start-up environment - you'll be a self-starter, able to take initiative in breaking ambiguous projects into concrete, time-bound steps.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the higher education sector, such lecturing, maintaining compliance with accreditation standards, curriculum mapping, and curriculum development
• Previous experience or demonstrated passion for higher education/edtech
• Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and adapt quickly to new circumstances
• Passion for Woolf’s mission, vision, and embodiment of our core values
• Experience working remotely
• A background in computer science is not essential, but would be valued in this role.

Benefits

• Contract Structure & Compensation
• Contract Type: Independent Contractor (Global)
• Please note: contractors are responsible for their own taxes and benefits in compliance with their local regulations.
• Why Woolf?
• Global Impact: Work with education leaders worldwide to shape the future of learning.
• Remote Flexibility: Work from anywhere with a schedule that fits your lifestyle.
• Growth Potential: Join a fast-growing company with opportunities to expand your role.
• Innovative Culture: Be part of a mission-driven team backed by top investors.