Deputy Faculty Manager – Social Sciences and Health

The College

At Durham College we’re pleased with our folks.  A globally excellent centre of academic excellence, a collegiate group of extraordinary folks, a singular and historic setting – Durham is a college like no different. We imagine that inspiring our folks to do excellent issues at Durham permits Durham folks to do excellent issues professionally and personally.  
Throughout the College now we have an enormous number of roles and profession alternatives, which collectively make us a big and profitable group, which is a key hub of exercise inside our area and nationally.  We might be thrilled if you happen to would take into account becoming a member of our thriving College. Additional details about the College might be discovered right here

The Function and Division

The School of Social Sciences and Well being is certainly one of Durham College’s 4 Schools, and is residence to a various group of employees and college students throughout eight tutorial departments and Faculties: Anthropology, Archaeology, Training, Geography, Authorities and Worldwide Affairs, Legislation, Sociology and Sport and Train Sciences. The School can also be liable for interdisciplinary programmes in Mixed Social Sciences and Analysis Strategies and is working in direction of growing a broader vary of interdisciplinary programmes at postgraduate taught degree. Our inclusive, artistic, and revolutionary analysis atmosphere supplies our college students with an inspiring studying expertise and permits us to supply world-leading analysis inside and throughout Departments, Analysis Centres and Institutes. The various nature of the actions that happen throughout the School and the function of the School Workplace in supporting the event and supply of strategic goals supplies our employees with a stimulating and interesting work atmosphere.

In collaboration with the School Management workforce, the Deputy School Supervisor will help and drive the strategic goals and goals of the School and guarantee engagement and profitable implementation of native and College-wide initiatives and initiatives.  Offering impactful help to the Govt Dean, School Supervisor and Deputy Govt Deans, the Deputy School Supervisor will work in partnership with tutorial {and professional} help colleagues all through the School of Social Sciences and Well being and within the wider College on initiatives and initiatives that help the supply of strategic priorities and plans as outlined by the Govt Dean and/or School Supervisor. Whereas it’s anticipated that these initiatives and initiatives will change over time, key initiatives within the first occasion will embody:

·         the institution of the School’s Multidisciplinary Hub;

·         the institution and oversight of the School’s Recruitment and Admissions Administration Group;

·         undertaking help for the event of the College’s ‘Well being @ Durham’ Technique.

The Deputy School Supervisor will undertake line administration accountability for some of the School groups, which embody: Doctoral Coaching Programmes; Studying and Instructing and School Administration; Digital Studying Growth; Fieldwork Help; Scholar Help; Short-term Staffing Service and Finance and can help the School Supervisor in key features of the broader School operations.  Line administration preparations might change on occasion to satisfy the evolving wants of the School. The Deputy School Supervisor should have sturdy line administration expertise in a College Context and a breadth of Larger Training expertise throughout help for Instructing, Analysis and broader operations.  With excessive ranges of initiative and talent to work independently, the Deputy School Supervisor can have confirmed management expertise and expertise of working with and presenting advanced knowledge and influencing at a senior degree.

Additional details about the function and the tasks is on the backside of this job description.

Working at Durham 

A aggressive wage is just one a part of the various incredible advantages you’ll obtain if you happen to be part of the College: additionally, you will obtain entry to the next incredible advantages: 

•    30 Days annual go away per yr along with 8 public holidays and 4 customary days per yr – a complete of 42 days per yr.  
•    The College closes between Christmas and New 12 months 
•    We provide a beneficiant pension scheme, As a brand new member of employees you’ll be routinely enrolled into this College Superannuation Scheme (USS).
•    Irrespective of the way you journey to work, now we have you coated.  Now we have parking throughout campus, a cycle to work scheme which lets you purchase a motorcycle and low cost with native bus and prepare corporations.
•    There’s a real dedication to growing our colleagues professionally and personally.  There’s a complete vary of improvement programs, apprenticeships and entry to {qualifications} and routes to develop your profession within the College.  All employees have devoted annual time to focus on their private improvement alternatives. 
•    A lot of help for well being and wellbeing together with discounted membership for our cutting-edge sport and fitness center services and entry to a 24-7 Worker Help Programme.
•    On website nursery is offered and entry to vacation camps for kids aged 5-16 all year long.
•    Household pleasant insurance policies, together with maternity and adoption go away, that are among the many most beneficiant within the increased training sector (and certain above and past many employers).
•    The chance to participate in employees volunteering actions to make a distinction in the area people
•    Reductions can be found through our advantages portal together with; cash off at supermarkets, excessive road retailers, IT merchandise resembling Apple, the cinema and days out at varied sights. 
•    A wage sacrifice scheme can also be obtainable that can assist you reap the benefits of tax financial savings on advantages. 
•    If you’re transferring to Durham, we will help with elimination prices and now we have a devoted workforce who will help you with the practicalities resembling home looking and faculties.  Should you want a visa, we cowl most visa prices and provide an curiosity free mortgage scheme to pay for dependant visas.

Durham College is dedicated to equality,  variety and inclusion 

Our collective goal is to create an open and inclusive atmosphere the place everybody can attain their full potential and we imagine our employees ought to mirror the variety of the worldwide group during which we work.  As a College equality, variety, and inclusion (EDI) are a key a part of the College’s Technique and a central a part of all the things we do.  We additionally stay by our values and our Employees Code of Conduct.  At Durham we actively work in direction of offering an atmosphere the place our employees and college students can research, work and stay in a group which is supportive and inclusive. It’s necessary to us that every one of our colleagues are aligned to each our values and dedication to EDI.

We welcome and encourage purposes from members of teams who’re under-represented in our work power together with folks with disabilities, girls and black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.  When you’ve got taken trip of your profession, and you are feeling it related, tell us about it in your utility.  If you’re a candidate with a incapacity, we’re dedicated to making sure truthful remedy all through the recruitment course of. We are going to make changes to help the interview course of wherever it’s affordable to take action and, the place profitable, affordable changes will likely be made to help folks inside their function. 

What you might want to exhibit if you apply/Individual Specification    

Whenever you apply it will be important that you just tell us what expertise/expertise you might have from the same function and/or what expertise/expertise you might have which might make you proper for this function.  Additional details about the function and tasks is on the finish of this job description.  The place a standards has an asterisk* subsequent to it, it might be given further weighting when your utility is taken into account.    
  
Your utility ought to cowl the next standards:
 

Important Standards

{Qualifications}/Expertise
1.    Educated to diploma degree (or equal expertise).
2.    Skilled practitioner with specialist information and experience to affect service supply, occasions and actions throughout the organisation.
3.    Expertise of offering specialist recommendation and steering to a spread of shoppers and colleagues, together with extra senior colleagues.
4.    Expertise of taking part in inner or exterior networks to share and talk about good follow, develop sturdy and productive working relationships and positively affect the College’s popularity.
5.    Expertise of implementing insurance policies and procedures and supporting service enhancements.
6.    Observe document of administration and improvement expertise and/or an enhanced administration qualification utilized throughout a big service workforce or groups.

Expertise/Skills/Information
7.    Glorious spoken and written communication expertise together with the power to develop efficient working relationships, each internally and externally
8.    Glorious digital competence throughout a spread of digital gadgets and apps together with  digital communication instruments, Microsoft 365 purposes, undertaking planning, monetary programs, recruitment instruments
9.    Dedicated to persevering with skilled improvement to keep up skilled recognition.
10.    Information and expertise of guaranteeing compliance with regulatory and organisational coverage and tips.
11.    Skill to contribute to planning at operational and strategic ranges.
12.    Skill to resolve issues and determine on and plan applicable options.

Fascinating standards

 1.    A working familiarity with Instructing and Analysis in a Social Science context.

Learn how to apply
  
To progress to the evaluation stage, candidates should proof every of the important standards required for the function within the individual specification above. Will probably be on the discretion of the recruiting panel as to whether or not they may even take into account any fascinating standards, however we’d urge candidates to offer proof for all standards.  Please don’t neglect to test if there may be any weighted standards (see above).

Whereas some standards will likely be thought-about on the shortlisting stage, different standards could also be thought-about later within the evaluation course of, resembling questions at interview.   
  
Submitting your utility 

We desire to obtain purposes on-line.   We are going to replace you about your utility at varied factors all through the choice course of, through automated emails from our e-recruitment system. Please test your spam/junk folder periodically to be sure to haven’t missed any of our updates.
  
What you might want to submit   

•    A CV: and   
•    A supporting assertion which outlines the way you meet all the standards throughout the Individual Specification.    

Contact particulars   
  
For a chat in regards to the function or any additional info please contact Dr Richard Bruce, School Supervisor ([email protected]) 

Typical Function Necessities

Service Supply/Growth
•    Present a dedication to equality, variety and inclusion and the College’s values.
•    Develop and apply an in-depth understanding of college coverage and exterior developments when finishing up your function.
•    Guarantee all actions, processes and transactions are accounted for precisely and promptly to satisfy regulatory {and professional} service and coverage requirements.
•    Use your managerial and management experience to determine priorities and form School Operations to realize the required outcomes.
•    Search for methods to repeatedly enhance providers and take a lead function within the improvement and implementation of assigned insurance policies, processes and requirements.
•    Provoke and handle enterprise course of opinions to enhance the service in your space.
•    Guarantee knowledge (commercially delicate and/or private) is appropriately saved and managed.
•    Handle high quality and regulatory audits of programs and procedures.
•    Help the welfare, wellbeing and employment of your employees by offering skilled steering

 Planning and Organisation

• Contribute to the scoping and useful resource planning throughout a spread of actions at operational and probably strategic degree. 
• Set operational goals for the scoping, initiation, planning and implementation of serious initiatives in service areas.
•  Keep an oversight of the service and efficiency metrics to offer experiences for increased degree managers and committees. 

Group Growth
•    Handle and develop the folks, efficiency and assets throughout at the very least one of many School groups, Doctoral Coaching Programmes; Studying and Instructing and School Administration; Digital Studying Growth; Fieldwork Help; Scholar Help; Short-term Staffing Service and Finance groups and help the School Supervisor in participating and embedding initiatives and course in Departments and Skilled Companies groups throughout the School in collaboration with Departmental and Operational Leads
•    Deputise for the School Supervisor in key committees, conferences and representing the School on College teams. Devolve tasks to workforce members to make sure continuity of service provision and encourage expertise improvement.

•    Assist form the talents and experience wanted to ship knowledgeable service by recruiting, inducting and coaching workforce members and structuring the workforce in means that may finest meet operational and strategic priorities.
•    Perform common efficiency opinions to offer suggestions on goals and expectations and determine any improvement wants.
•    Deal with most HR points and help the welfare and wellbeing of your workforce referring extra advanced points to specialist providers or extra senior managers.

Communication/Liaison
•    Use your skilled information to determine and advocate priorities for long-term enterprise plans.
•    Design artistic and revolutionary communications to advertise and enhance engagement regarding the School.
•    Lead enterprise conferences, working teams and sub-committees at operational service degree to affect governance, organisational coverage and requirements for the service.
•    Create sturdy working relationships, together with inner and exterior networks, utilizing your networks to extend your information and expertise, swap info with friends and positively affect the College’s popularity.
•    Signify the School and College at promotional occasions.

•    Another affordable duties.

Helpful hyperlinks

If you want additional info you could discover the next will assist

  
Please observe that in submitting your utility Durham College will likely be processing your knowledge. We might ask you to think about the related College Privateness Assertion Privateness Notices – Durham College  which supplies info on the collation, storing and use of information.  
 
When appointing to this function the College should be sure that it meets any relevant immigration necessities, together with wage thresholds that are relevant to some visas.