AQA
Strategic Copyright Lead
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Summary
Purpose: To lead the copyright team, undertaking the line management, growth and development of the copyright managers and the coordinator. To guide the team towards the delivery of short and medium-term plans that are in line with business area strategy and AQA’s corporate strategy, including accountability for the delivery and management of the new copyright framework, which will enable effective use of 3rd party materials across the AQA group and use of AQA IP with partners to the benefit of our customers.
Landscape: AQA is a leading exam board and education charity. The work of our business area plays a major role in the development, delivery and evaluation of high quality assessment. This role supports our work in the delivery of a consistent AQA -wide copyright framework and an empowered and proactive copyright team which is crucial to our guiding principle of never letting a learner down and supports AQA’s mission to become the UK’s pre-eminent educational assessment organisation. The role will involve significant collaboration with stakeholders and partners across the AQA Group.
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Activities:
- Defining the scope and outputs of the Copyright and Archive team in collaboration with key stakeholders across the AQA Group.
- Programme managing delivery of outputs to agreed milestones, monitoring delivery plans to ensure they are on track and working with other managers to unblock issues.
- Developing and managing new copyright reporting processes and ensuring stakeholders can self-serve to increase efficiency.
- Managing changes in third party copyright requirements decisively, understanding and communicating the impact of changes to teams and stakeholders clearly and effectively, and actively looking for solutions to issues.
- Supporting the training of associates and AQA colleagues in their use of third party material and shaping a cultural change within the organisation in relation to copyright.
- Regularly sharing and communicating progress of the team and associated projects with relevant stakeholders.
- Creating and managing risk and issue logs.
- Role modelling a one R&I collaborative approach to communications and ways of working, and in doing so build effective and strong working relationships within the business area, and across the wider business.
- Ensuring the work of the team is understood, and well-communicated, both within the business area and within the wider business.
- Taking on extra responsibilities, for example directly leading on projects, where feasible and appropriate.
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Requirements
To be successful in this role, you will need to have:
- A broad understanding of the opportunities and risks surrounding copyright compliance within the regulatory context in which AQA operates.
- Ability to understand and balance the multiple requirements of a customer-centric organisation, with those requirements set out in copyright law.
- Ability to service the needs of a range of stakeholders across the AQA Group in relation to third party copyright and intellectual property.
- Excellent inter-personal and relationship management skills and ability to develop and maintain effective and impactful working relationships with a range of partners and stakeholders.
- Demonstrable project and programme management skills, and the ability to deliver to KPIs.
- A results-focused approach enabling pragmatic decision making and delivery at pace.
- Flexible and responsive to changing demands, and willing to challenge the thinking of others and to champion new ways of working.
- A positive and proactive mindset.
- Takes own development seriously, and responds constructively to feedback and challenge.
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