Reference: | AQ2901 |
Specialisms: | Education |
Date posted: | 12th December 2024 |
Closing date: | 6th February 2025 |
Professorial Pay Scheme Band Structure which ranges from £69,757 – £132,671 per annum (rising to £70,578 – £135,065 from the 1st March 2025).
Are you interested in working for a top-ranked, triple-crown accredited (AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA) Management School? We are seeking applications from ambitious, highly motivated and talented individuals who will be keen to play an active role in further enhancing the Management School’s international reputation for excellence and delivering our mission for positive societal impact, fostering socially responsible management practices through world-class, innovative research and transformative education.
We are seeking to appoint a proven academic leader (Teaching & Research or Teaching Specialist Pathway) with a distinguished record of research and/or scholarship at a world-leading level to join us as Chair and Associate Dean (Education) and strategically lead the Education portfolio. You will work collaboratively with the Dean, Associate Deans, Head of Professional Services, and with wider Executive, L&T leadership and School teams to deliver our strategic ambitions. The successful candidate will be expected to fulfil the Associate Dean leadership role for a period of circa 3 years in the first instance renewable for up to a further two years by mutual agreement, after which you will join the School’s Professoriate full time in a chair position.
As Associate Dean (Education), you will lead the development and delivery of the School’s ambitious strategic plan for Education, ensuring the delivery of excellent, research-led, transformative learning and teaching and student experience aligned with our mission, vision and values. This will reflect the needs of our diverse student population, programme portfolio and differing study environments, and drive forward our strategic priorities, initiatives and innovations around our strategic pillars of high-quality learning and teaching, employability and digital learning. You will have a commitment to continuous improvement and foster close synergies between research and the curriculum, and the design and delivery of education.
You will be an internationally recognised scholar in the research and teaching or the teaching specialist pathway with a profile commensurate with a Chair appointment in a relevant subject area. You will be an ambitious academic leader with a proven track record of strategically driving innovation and continuous improvement in Education.
You will also be required to support the Dean to lead, manage and develop the School to ensure it achieves the highest possible standards of excellence in all its activities, exercise leadership, demonstrate vision, and empower others in order to deliver an ambitious Education strategy for the School strategy, aligned with wider Faculty of Social Sciences and University priorities.
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We are keen to attract a diverse applicant pool, and we are aware that some under-represented groups are typically less confident about applying for jobs unless they are sure they comfortably meet all the criteria. With this in mind, we encourage all potential candidates to reflect on their strengths and experience in the broadest sense, including transferable skills where appropriate, when considering their suitability for the position. In all cases, we will select the best candidate for the role.
Anderson Quigley is acting as an advisor to the University and an executive search process is being carried out in addition to the public advertisement. Further information is available LINK and should you wish to discuss the role in strict confidence, please contact:
Elyse Turner-Pearce on +44 (0)7808 648 559, elyse@andersonquigley.com or
Kiersten Avery on +44 (0)7510 384 735 or kiersten@andersonquigley.com.
The closing date for applications is Thursday 6th February 2025 and Panel Interviews with the University will take place in March 2025.