Interim Head of Academic Leadership Development

About the Role

Are you an established leader with a proven track record of designing and delivering successful academic leadership development programmes in higher education? Are you looking for an exciting role where you can help us to build strategic academic leadership capacity at Queen Mary?

In this interim role, covering for maternity leave, you will be responsible for the successful delivery of a new comprehensive academic leadership programme. This new programme will develop strategic academic leadership capacity to deliver our ambitious 2030 Strategy through our key areas of education and research.

Working proactively, you will identify institutional and individual needs and commission a range of external providers, alongside individuals with expertise from across the institution, to contribute to the programme.

We are looking for someone who can rapidly build credibility and maintain strong working relationships with a range of senior stakeholders. 

This is an exceptional opportunity for the right candidate to have real impact at Queen Mary, playing a key role in helping our academic leaders to deliver Queen Mary’s ambitious strategic objectives.

About You

We are looking for someone with a significant and current understanding of academic leadership in higher education. You will have significant experience in designing and delivering successful academic leadership development programmes working with senior leaders to deliver institutional strategic priorities.

Your ability to influence and build positive working relationships will be key in launching this new programme. You will also have significant experience of coaching senior leaders in both educational and research contexts.

About the Academy

The Queen Mary Academy offers a comprehensive academic practice development portfolio for educators and researchers at all stages of their careers, from teaching assistants through to the professoriate. Located within the Office of the Principal, the Academy reports to the Vice-Principal (Education) and has a dotted-line report to the Vice-Principal (Research) to ensure strategic alignment in our approach. The Academy works closely with Faculty Deans to ensure close academic involvement in programme delivery.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Professor Janet De Wilde [email protected] .

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