Using responsible as a noun

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I'm studying through English in a country which does not have English as a first language. The university department is using the word responsible as a noun, for example, they use course/program responsible to denote the role of the person who is responsible for running a particular course or program.
They do this as it's a direct translation from how they express it in their language.

Is this acceptable?

No. It’s the responsible person/tutor or course leader.

Agree - "responsible person". Or "person with responsibility for..."

Is it Spanish? Immediately sprang to mind when I saw the OP. My Spanish is fairly fluent and those sorts of mis-translations are very common.

Italian does it as well.

French does this as well and Portuguese.

My US colleagues use Person Responsible as a function title. Drives me nuts. Despite my username, I am very much not American.

Thanks everyone - it's Swedish. It works in Swedish. I noticed that another department uses manager which works much better considering what is involved in the role.

I'm considering pointing this out to them as it grates on me and they're trying to become more international.