COMPETENCIES OF THE GOVERNING BODY, FACULTY OF LAW

Dean

• Representation of the institution before external entities and governing bodies of the University when this responsibility lies outside the remit of the Chancellor.
• Manage the Faculty.
• Preside the Faculty Board.
• Establish the Faculty’s lines of strategy within the general framework set forth by the University of Cadiz.

Academic Secretary

• Assist the Dean in recording the minutes of the meetings of the Quality Assurance Committee and the Faculty Board.
• Counsel the Faculty executive team on the legality of all proposals drawn up concerning measures, directives, etc. to be approved in the different regulatory organs.
• Take decisions on all student requests concerning matriculations, changes of group, special appeals, etc.
• Officially attest to the agreements, processes and decisions established within the Faculty of Law’s sphere of responsibility.
• Supervise and manage electoral processes in the Faculty of Law.
• Organise the institution’s degree and graduation ceremonies.

Vice Dean for Academic Planning and Quality

• Draw up teaching plans (academic calendars, activity groups, lecture timetables, exam schedules, room assignations) for the Faculty’s degree and double degree programmes and coordinate them with the teaching plans for the master’s degree programmes.
• Deal with any changes or incidents which may occur in the Faculty’s academic planning during the course of the year.
• Evaluate and design new degree programmes and modify official descriptions of existing programmes.
• Support the degree coordinators in the processes of accreditation and monitoring vis-à-vis assessment agencies.
• Coordinate and support the different members of the Faculty’s extended executive team with teaching responsibilities: the Faculty’s governing body in Algeciras, the degree coordinators and the coordinators of end-of-degree projects and external practice placements.
• Ensure quality in the Faculty. Among other tasks, this includes checking the planning of the institution’s quality assurance system to guarantee compliance with the quality assurance system manual and the efficient distribution of the manual, and submitting a draft management report to the Faculty’s Quality Assurance Committee.
• Assist the Dean in her duties

Vice Dean for Student Affairs and Mobility

• Promote national and international mobility for students, lecturers and administrative staff, disseminating relevant information about different mobility and exchange programmes.
• Promote new exchange agreements with other universities both in Spain and abroad
• Advise and supervise academic agreements guaranteeing the mutual recognition of credits in exchange programmes for students, lecturers, researchers and administrative staff.
• Sign lecturer/researcher mobility contracts.
• Supervise recognition of credits obtained at other universities, in accordance with current academic agreements.
• Liaise with the Vice Chancellor for Internationalisation on issues affecting the handling of academic aspects of international mobility programmes.
• Liaise with the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Employment on the academic aspects of national mobility programmes.
• Receive and provide academic guidance for visiting students from other Spanish or foreign universities.
• Coordinate and collaborate in Faculty activities for students, in particular by providing information about such activities: Project Classmate, Welcome Days, the Orientation and Support Programme (PROA), TAPs, Moots, etc.
• Assist the Dean in her duties.

Vice Dean for Outreach and Resources

• Establish and strengthen the Faculty of Law’s relationship with its environment, and invigorate the Faculty internally.
• Liaise with the University of Cadiz’s communication services and with the media.
• Support dissemination initiatives by members of the Faculty’s extended executive team.
• Support internationalisation activities organised by the Deanery.
• Manage and update the Faculty of Law’s different social media accounts.
• Procure resources for activities.
• Promote the participation of graduates in the Faculty of Law’s activities.
• Assist the Dean in her duties.

End-of-Degree Project (EDP) Coordinator

• Counsel and inform students about issues related to the EDP (deadlines, requirements, etc.).
• Receive EDP proposals submitted by students.
• Answer any EDP-related queries.
• Conduct information or tutoring sessions with students about general aspects of preparing an EDP.
• Inform and support EDP lecturers, tutors and members of assessment boards.
• Mediate between the Vice Dean for Academic Planning and the Faculty’s departments and/or lecturers/tutors (pass on queries, information and requests).

Faculty Director in Algeciras

• Coordinate the Faculty’s Algeciras branch with its headquarters in Jerez and, to a lesser extent, with the Algeciras branch of the Labour Relations Department (with regard to the Double Bachelor’s Degree in Law-Labour Relations).
• Assist the teaching staff: ensure that teaching is conducted in an appropriate manner, and help resolve any difficulties which may arise.
• Assist the students: address any problems the students may have, whether they be of an academic or strictly administrative nature.
• Promote academic activities: foment the development of complementary academic activities for students.
• Foment the interaction of the Faculty’s Algeciras branch with local legal and judicial circles.
• Foment the social presence of the Faculty’s Algeciras branch in the Campo de Gibraltar region.

Degree Coordinator

• Assist and coordinate whenever necessary with the Faculty executive team or the organism academically responsible for the degree.
• Manage the processes of student admission and matriculation in accordance with the applicable regulations.
• Analyse the admission profiles of new students.
• Proactively propose and coordinate the actions needed to fulfil the degree’s objectives as set out in its official description and in the instructions received from the Dean.
• Continually assess the academic activity carried out by the students doing the degree, ensuring that the training tasks are being conducted in an appropriate manner.
• Monitor external teaching staff and specialists participating in the degree programme, ensuring that they are correctly appointed each year and that they perform the duties entrusted to them efficiently.
• Monitor the training activities set forth in the degree syllabus, analysing their appropriacy, duration, scheduling and horizontal and vertical coordination, and for each one proposing any improvements deemed opportune.
• Ensure the appropriate reviewing of the teaching guides corresponding to all the subjects and activities included in the degree syllabus, thereby safeguarding the academic and scientific quality of the courses taught at the University of Cadiz.
• Supervise the academic work involved in the end-of-degree and end-of-master’s degree projects and in other activities, including, when applicable, PhD theses.
• Oversee the academic aspects of the external practice placements required to complete the degree, in coordination with the institution in question.
• Further the actions of any academic committees on which he/she may sit corresponding to the degree, regardless of their name or competencies.
• Be aware of the relationships and address the incidents which may arise between students, teaching staff and researchers involved in the degree programme.
• Help define and apply the instructions and criteria established by the corresponding vice chancelleries regarding the academic management of degree courses.
• Collaborate with the Orientation and Support Programme (PROA) Coordinator in designing and implementing student support activities.

Student Orientation and Support Programme (PROA) Coordinator

• Assist and guide students regarding aspects of daily university life, from the moment of their arrival at the Faculty.
• Implement different initiatives based on a series of core guidelines for providing assistance and ongoing encouragement for students, the main objective being to help them fit into the university education environment.
• Optimise students’ academic performance by means of specific training courses.
• Optimise students’ training by providing them with the opportunity to access complementary knowledge and acquire the skills they will need in their future professional careers.
• Liaise with the University of Cadiz’s Psycho-Pedagogical Assistance Service.
• Address any special learning difficulties students may have by means of tutoring programmes.
• Provide career advice for students.

Practice Placements Coordinator

• Coordinate the academic management of practice placements (academic tutor, external tutor and students).
• Assign and run practice placements, assist both students and the corresponding representatives of collaborating entities during the selection phase, and coordinate tutoring and supervision sessions in the Faculty with the academic tutors.
• Supervise placements in accordance with the idea of homogenisation, distributing the workloads associated with them in a balanced, rational manner, avoiding overlaps with other activities or courses, and ensuring that no practice placements coincide with scheduled lectures or class sessions.
• During term time, the Practice Placements Coordinator will be the Faculty’s principal contact with external entities at institutional level and for any interaction between the entity and the Faculty’s students and their academic supervisors.