I am pleased to invite you to consider the new role of Director of Educational Enterprise.

City’s new strategy focuses on us being the University of business, practice and the professions and this has given us the opportunity to re-design Professional and Continuing Education, as well as other forms of educational enterprise. Working with me the newly created role of Director of Educational Enterprise will be high-profile across the University and lead a reorientation of our provision from an independent and autonomous unit to a core, strategically aligned professional service.  Our ambition is to reinvent and sustainably grow our work in continuing education, CPD and summer schools.

In developing and implementing a scalable educational enterprise strategy the role requires a collaborative leader who can work across the institution in engaging the academic and professional services community. You will bring deep experience of working at a senior level in a relevant area of training, CPD or short course provision, but beyond this technical skillset will be a style of operating that can drive a cultural and performance shift in our provision.

This is an exciting time to join the University, with the summer merger with St George’s Medical School, City is a university confident in its strategic direction and this role is central to our mission to drive business, practice and the professions. We hope you share the ambitions that we have and are captured by the opportunity in delivering a new unit for enterprise education at City, University of London.

City, University of London is a leading UK University, with a global vision and a commitment to transforming lives through education.

Founded in 1894 City, University of London is a global university committed to academic excellence, with a focus on business and the professions and an enviable central London location. City attracts around 20,000students (over 40% at the postgraduate level), from more than 150 countries and staff from over 75 countries. Located in the industry rich hub of central London, City prides itself on being the University of business, practice, and the professions.

In the last decade, City has almost tripled the proportion of its total academic staff producing world-leading or internationally excellent research. During this period, City has made significant investments in its academic staff, its estate and its infrastructure and continues to work towards realising its vision of being a leading global university.

City is a member institute of the University of London, having joined in 2016. City is composed of six academic Schools offering both undergraduate and postgraduate courses: Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), the City Law School, the School of Communication and Creativity, the School of Policy and Global Affairs, the School of Science and Technology and the School of Health and Psychological Sciences.

City’s University’s Strategy for 2030 was approved by our Council in November 2022. It affirms our role as the University of business, practice and the professions through four sets of core priorities:

We build successful and fulfilling careers and develop leaders for the world of work

• Understanding, celebrating and empowering our students – the students who choose us, and whom we choose – and delivering enriching and personalised educational experiences.
• Creating a diverse and vibrant community of learning that reaches far beyond the University and is sustained through powerful networks.
• Providing relevant skills, attributes and approaches that enable our graduates to succeed in their future careers and life pathways.

We undertake research at the frontier of practice

• Fostering important, impactful and engaged research.
• Educating professionals for whom evidence-based thinking is integral to their practice.
• Challenging practice and redefining the professions.

We are a flexible, high-performing learning organisation

• Building a great place to work that is inclusive, supports well-being and is a fun place to be.
• Creating an accountable, socially responsible, efficient and responsive organisation that can deliver this strategy.
• Operating a robust and sustainable financial margin that ensures we have the space to achieve our mission.

We are open and outward-facing

• Comfortable with partnership and happy with co-creation – the opposite of an ivory tower.
• Ambitious, innovative and risk-taking – not afraid to be different.
• Embedded in London, a world capital, and proud of our deep connections with the City of London.

The salary is commensurate with the market, the seniority of the post and the calibre of the appointed candidate. It will be agreed in negotiation with the successful candidate.

The appointee will qualify for membership of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) and a comprehensive relocation package is available where relevant.

City offers a variety of other benefits, including excellent staff development and career development opportunities; access to its student and staff fitness, study and social facilities; discounted courses; a season ticket loan scheme; and an excellent working environment.

Where hybrid working can be accommodated, specific arrangements will be agreed with the successful candidate before their start date. Regardless of where colleagues are working, City, University of London’s premises will be their primary and contractual place of work.

The appointment will be made subject to satisfactory references.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Statement

City, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors. We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background. For more information on our approaches to encouraging an inclusive environment, please see City’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Pages.

Anderson Quigley is acting as an advisor to the University, an executive search process is being carried out by Anderson Quigley in addition to the public advertisement.

The closing date for applications is Monday 24 June 2024.

Applications should consist of:

• A full CV.
• A cover letter outlining your motivations for the role and how you meet the criteria of the person specification.
• Please include details of two referees in either your CV or covering letter, though please note that we will not approach your referees without your prior consent and only should you be shortlisted.

Should you wish to discuss the role in strict confidence, please contact Aino Betts at +44(0)7743 934 729 or aino.betts@andersonquigley.com Ed Pritchard at +44 (0)7980 817 927 or ed.pritchard@andersonquigley.com