Associate Deans

GBS

  • Permanent
  • London
Reference:AQ3125
Specialisms:Education
Date posted:3rd February 2025

Anderson Quigley is delighted to continue our long-standing partnership with GBS, part of GEDU Global Education, this time on the appointment of Associate Dean roles across multiple partnerships:

  • Associate Dean Business (Bath Spa)
  • Associate Dean Business (Pearson)
  • Associate Dean Construction Management (Pearson)
  • Associate Dean Digital Technologies (Pearson)

Please note, these are fully on-site roles, based at their London, Manchester, Birmingham, or Leeds campuses (with travel between).

Who is GBS?

With over 35,000 students and up to 4 intakes per year, GBS is a leading educational institution and a gateway to diverse, industry-focused education. Operating across ten vibrant campuses in London, Manchester, Birmingham, and Leeds, GBS offers vocational, undergraduate, and postgraduate courses in skills gap based disciplines. Their mission to boost students’ career prospects through strong employer connections and personalised academic and career guidance is more pertinent now than ever.

Driven by a vision to transform communities and expand access to education, GBS champions inclusivity and strives to provide opportunities for underrepresented groups. They are committed to breaking down barriers and empowering non-traditional student demographics with high-quality education by promoting learning as a key driver of socioeconomic progress.

Overview:

The aim of these role is to provide leadership and management for higher education programmes validated by GBS collaborative partners, ensuring that the collaborative partnership thrives and furthers the objectives and aims of GBS strategic planning, including implementation of GBS’ learning and teaching strategy across all levels and all course offerings.

The focus of the Associate Dean position is to ensure GBS maintains the highest academic standards and student-centred learning environment enabling students to meet their educational and professional goals. Further, the postholder will manage collaborative partnerships strategically in order to meet key performance indicators set for student attendance, student retention, student progression and student achievement.

Key responsibilities will include:

  • Providing leadership to all staff involved with the delivery of partnership programmes.
  • Advising the relevant Dean and others in Senior Management on all resource requirements.
  • Promoting and further enhancing the highest quality learning experience for GBS students on their collaborative programmes.
  • Managing on a day-to-day basis the operation of the programmes delivered across the GBS campuses including travel to all campuses and collaborative partner sites as necessary.
  • Ensuring that students’ experience the highest quality teaching and learning, pastoral support and careers advice.

Essential Criteria:

We are open to interest from HE academic leaders with specific subject experience in business, digital technologies, or construction management. You may currently be operating as a Course Leader / Programme Director / Deputy Head of School / Deputy Head of Department and are leading a school or faculty of 2000+ students. Ideally, this experience would be within learning and teaching focused, post-92 universities, FE/HE colleges or other HEIs. For the roles at Pearson, experience of HND/HNC would be essential. This is a fantastic opportunity to step into a senior academic leadership role within a dynamic, student-focused environment that is fast paced and commercial, yet committed to high quality provision.

Next Steps:

To discuss further, please get in touch with Az Ahmed az.ahmed@andersonquigley.com or Akhil Yerneni akhil.yerneni@andersonquigley.com

GBS

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