Deputy Director of the Transformation Office

Grade 10 (£66,857 – £82,179 p.a. relying upon expertise)

This can function might be primarily based on the College campus with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid method. We’re additionally open to discussing versatile working preparations.

Are you on the lookout for a brand new and thrilling management function that may assist ship transformational change at a world main establishment?  Do you might have the imaginative and prescient and expertise to efficiently lead and encourage groups supporting the supply of strategic initiatives for the College? Do you might have sturdy interpersonal and relationship constructing expertise with the confirmed skill to work collaboratively and throughout boundaries to realize outcomes?  

The College of Leeds has an formidable strategic plan and is concerned in a variety of enormous multi-million pound strategic initiatives geared toward supporting its tutorial mission of pupil training, analysis and innovation and internationalisation. These initiatives are massive, complicated and symbolize a significant funding by the establishment. They’re vital to the supply of the college’s present and future technique. 

The Transformation Workplace (TO) is among the key strategic automobiles that allows the supply of those initiatives. The Deputy Director of the Transformation Workplace will play a pivotal function in reaching the College’s strategic ambitions by main and having strategic oversight for the TO’s operational companies that allow profitable supply of enormous scale transformational tasks. This consists of companies resembling supply, assurance, portfolio workplace and resourcing.   

Working intently with our companions and challenge sponsors, you’ll help the Director of the Transformation Workplace in growing, shaping and delivering the transformational tasks from approval to execution. This consists of enjoying an lively function as a part of the broader Chief Working Workplace (COO) portfolio of exercise to make sure that priorities are delivered on time and to price range per an adaptive and people-centred supply framework. 

Additionally, you will help the Director in managing TO staff assets and demand and can work intently with the Director to make sure strong governance and threat and reporting preparations are in place to make sure supply and the deployment of assets to realize outcomes. 

You should have important expertise of main and managing large-scale and complicated tasks, programmes and portfolios both inside Larger Schooling or an analogous, massive and complicated surroundings together with important expertise of main, managing and motivating a number of groups of employees.   You’ll be capable to work confidently and assertively with a variety of govt and senior stakeholders, utilizing extremely efficient teaching, negotiation, communication and influencing expertise to realize profitable outcomes. You’ll even have a robust options focus with a capability to use a proactive, versatile and artistic strategy to complicated institutional points. 

What we provide in return

• 26 days vacation plus approx. 16 Financial institution Holidays/days that the College is closed by customized (together with Christmas) – that’s 42 days a 12 months!
• Beneficiant pension scheme plus life assurance – the College contributes 21.6% of wage.
• Well being and Wellbeing: Discounted employees membership choices at The Edge, our state-of-the-art campus health club, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports activities halls.
• Private Growth: Entry to programs run by our Organisational Growth and Skilled Studying staff, and self-development programs together with languages, Artistic Writing, Wellbeing Therapies and way more.
• Entry to on-site childcare, purchasing reductions and journey schemes are additionally accessible.

And way more!  

To discover the publish additional or for any queries you will have, please contact: 

Jenny Baynes, Director of the Transformation Workplace
Electronic mail: [email protected]  

Location:  Leeds – Predominant Campus
School/Service:  Skilled Companies
College/Institute:  Transformation Workplace – Central Operations
Class:  Skilled & Managerial
Grade: 
Grade 10
Wage: 
£66,857 to £82,179
Submit Kind: 
Full Time
Contract Kind:  Ongoing
Launch Date:  Tuesday 19 March 2024
Closing Date:  Sunday 14 April 2024
Interview Date: 
To be confirmed
Reference:  PSTOCO1007
Downloads:  Candidate Temporary