Salary: SS2 £81,702- £91,575 per annum
35
Full Time
Professional Services
12/03/2024
REQ000081
- Leading the development, sustainability, and viability of the school’s portfolio, ensuring alignment to market demand to meet the university’s recruitment targets
- Driving the school’s improvement across key performance indicators including student experience and satisfaction, retention, progression, and graduate outcomes
- Building effective networks and deliver communications both within the school and wider university including central and professional service functions to innovate, share good practice and improve performance, creating a culture of continuous quality enhancement within the school.
- Planning and delivery of the school’s resources on a medium to long-term basis, ensuring the delivery of the school plan, with alignment to university strategy
- Fostering excellent working relationships and networks with senior members of other schools, professional support services, other universities and external partners
- Lead on workforce planning, ensuring the effective and efficient deployment, development, and management of all staff in the school, including succession planning. With delegated authority from the Dean of School, ensure the school’s operational plan is delivered within budget, making significant contribution to the planning, monitoring, and effective management of school resources, maximising income generation, setting of targets for programme and school performance metrics
- Lead specific initiatives and projects within the school as agreed by the Dean and contribute to strategic and operational development of the university through leadership and participation in cross-university projects and initiatives identified by the Vice Chancellor’s Executive (VCE), identifying, creating, and facilitating opportunities for staff to be involved in cross-University initiatives, events, working groups and external projects.
- PhD or equivalent professional qualification in a subject relevant to the school and/or equivalent professional qualification / demonstrable experience
- A successful track record of academic leadership and management at a senior level in an HE environment based on an appreciation of internal and external drivers, with a passion for innovation, creativity and collaboration across teaching, research and enterprise.
- Experience of workforce planning, organising, monitoring and reviewing business operations, resources, income generation to ensure a coordinated approach to academic and operational planning with a proven ability to deliver on a range of internal and external performance indicators.
- A track record of cross school leadership activities or within a unit of significant scale.
- Experience of successfully managing major change initiatives.
- Substantial record of academic achievement across teaching, research and/or professional practice in a relevant subject area.
- Knowledge and understanding of the changing HE external and regulatory environment in the UK and internationally, and the key challenges these bring for the school.
- Adult Nursing, Community and Health
- Biological Sciences and Health
- Mental Health, Midwifery and Health
- Sport, Exercise and Health
- Our courses are accredited by professional bodies such as:
- Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland
- Institute of Biomedical Science
- Health Care Professions Council,
- Nursing and Midwifery Council,
- Royal Society of Biology,
- Institute of Occupational Safety & Health,
- Hosting the only British Association of Sport and Exercise Science (BASES) accredited lab in Scotland, we can offer lab-based and practical tuition.
- Many of our Sport students get access to the world-class Emirates Arena in Glasgow as part of their studies
- The largest provider of nursing and midwifery education in Scotland
- Students on our pre-registration nursing and midwifery courses spend 50% of their programme in practice
- We offer dynamic and contemporary opportunities for continuing professional development for healthcare professionals across a range of levels up to Masters.
- State-of-the-art facilities available across all of our campuses
- Midwifery courses are accredited by UNICEF as Baby Friendly
- We are the only provider of an Operating Department Practice programme of education in Scotland – and the only UK provider of a fully online programme.
- In 2020 the School of Health & Life Sciences won an AdvanceHE Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence for its Understanding Dementia: Class in a Bag programme
- Institute of Biomedical & Environmental Health Research
- Sport and Physical Activity Research Institute
- Alzheimer Scotland Centre for Policy and Practice
- Centre for Culture, Sports and Events
- Affective and Human Computing for Smart Environment Centre
- Centre for Health and Social Inequalities Research
- Creating a viable preventative treatment for Acanthamoeba Keratitis (a devastating eye condition prevalent amongst contact lens users)
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) research
- Improving the wellbeing of Scotland’s children through physical education
- Aquatic ecotoxicology: acute and chronic effects
- Invasive species: ecosystem impacts
- The emergence of antimicrobial resistance and infection control
- Dementia education
- 43 days of annual leave (including statutory/University holidays)
- An additional days leave on your birthday
- Defined benefit contribution pension scheme (currently 23%), including death in service benefits upon joining the scheme
- A flexible approach to working pattern and work-life balance
- Employee discount scheme across 3,500 retailers
- Fitness facilities across our campuses
- Access to a range of health and wellbeing resources, including occupational health, physiotherapy and access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Professional, career and research development opportunities.