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The College has an opportunity for an outstanding individual to lead the Provost’s Office team in the delivery of excellent strategic support of the Provost, Professor Ian Walmsley FRS. The Provost leads the academic mission of the College, overseeing its research, education and innovation and translation activities.
Duties and responsibilities
Your primary responsibility will be to facilitate the effective and efficient running of the Provost’s Office, within the complex College and wider higher education environment. You will lead on the annual cycle of initiatives and events within the Provost’s remit and manage the coordination of relevant committees and working groups for strategic, cross-College projects. You will act as a conduit to help ensure effective information flow, both within the College and with important external contacts, ensuring that Professor Walmsley is provided with appropriate information and research to inform decision making at the highest level.
Essential requirements:
This role will provide an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys interesting and varied work and is not daunted by complexity and change.
To succeed in the role, you will need:
- experience with working within higher education/academic enterprises
- a sound knowledge and understanding of the public policy issues relevant to higher education and research institutions.
- experience of leading and motivating a team, with the ability to manage a complex workload
- excellent interpersonal skills, with a demonstrable ability to deal with people and information with tact, sensitivity, and discretion.
- first-rate analytical and project management skills ample experience of prioritising and balancing several competing agendas
- ability to work with little direct supervision
A full list of responsibilities and essential requirements can be seen in the attached Job Description.
Further information
To support a healthy and sustainable work-life balance, we offer a generous annual leave allowance (up to 40 days a year in total) as well as special and family leave. We provide a wide-ranging benefits package that includes a variety of loans to help with transport, education or renting a home, as well as financial assistance with childcare (in addition to our award-winning Early Years Education Centre). We also provide a range of networks and training resources to enable you to develop your professional skills. To aid physical wellbeing, Move Imperial offers discounted sessions for staff in all the College’s state-of-the-art facilities, including a gym, swimming pool and a climbing wall.
For informal discussions about the post or the application process, please contact Heather Campbell at heather.campbell@imperial.ac.uk.
For queries about the application process, please contact Maria Monteiro, at m.monteiro@imperial.ac.uk Telephone 0207 594 5498.
Interviews are expected to take place on the South Kensington campus on 21 and 23 February 2024.
Closing date: 11 February 2024
To apply, please click “Apply Now”.
We are committed to equality of opportunity, to eliminating discrimination and to creating an inclusive working environment for all. We therefore encourage candidates to apply irrespective of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender reassignment, sex, or sexual orientation. We are an Athena SWAN Silver Award winner, a Disability Confident Leader and a Stonewall Diversity Champion
