Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) Director

Job title:

Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) Director

Firm

College of Edinburgh

Job description

Job Description:Professorial appointment on Grade UE10 (aggressive)Full time, 35 hours per weekOpen-ended (Everlasting)The College of Edinburgh is a world-leading centre of educational excellence dedicated to creating a big, sustainable and socially accountable contribution to Scotland, the UK and past. Within the high 20 of the QS World Rankings, in one of many world’s most stunning cities, the College gives a first-class schooling for over 49,000 college students throughout its programmes of research – undergraduate and postgraduate, on-site and distance studying.Edinburgh Futures Institute is for the pathfinders, the inquisitive, and those that need to make our advanced world higher. We work collaboratively throughout all areas of the College of Edinburgh – from Schools and Faculties, to analysis centres, to workers and pupil networks and initiatives. We’re focussed on tackling right now’s more and more advanced points by bringing individuals and disciplines collectively to spark the sudden and make higher futures doable.The Institute employs a workforce of 70 skilled companies workers to help tutorial colleagues from throughout the College to come back along with college students and companions to problem, create and make change. Our tutorial school and management is drawn from throughout the College and focuses on instructing, analysis and innovation.We’re reworking the enduring, category-A listed Previous Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh into a brand new house for multi-disciplinary collaboration, schooling, analysis and partnership. Edinburgh Futures Institute is house to a spread of analysis clusters, hubs and centres, in addition to a key focus for the subsequent technology of researchers, thinkers and creators because it helps the event of PhD college students in knowledge, ethics and AI.We search to nominate a Director with excellent strategic and management expertise and a dedication to collaborative, interdisciplinary, challenge-led and data-driven analysis, innovation and instructing. The profitable candidate may have the arrogance and ambition to steer the Institute and encourage our massive and numerous group.Making a constructive and collegiate surroundings, you’ll present strategic management in schooling, analysis and innovation and can develop and implement the shared imaginative and prescient for the Institute. You’ll champion the event of constructive working relationships and a tradition of open communication with colleagues in different components of the College so as to facilitate mutual understanding and efficient joint working. As an envoy for Edinburgh Futures Institute, you’ll set up and nurture productive relationships with exterior stakeholders, together with tutorial collaborators, alumni, donors, trade and business companions.We’re dedicated to equality, range and inclusion, and candidates from minority teams are notably welcomed.Purposes ought to embrace the next:

• an up-to-date Curriculum Vitae; and
• a protecting letter (of not more than two A4 pages) summarising your expertise, attributes and your view of your total suitability for the function.

Accomplished functions must be submitted electronically to or by Friday 19 April 2024 at 12 midday.Full particulars together with the data pack may be discovered on .At WittKieffer the privateness of your private data and our accountability to securely defend your knowledge is essential to us. We now have organisational, administrative and technical measures in place to guard your data from unauthorised entry, disclosure, alteration or destruction in accordance with laws together with the EU and UK GDPR in addition to different related nation and regional laws.Relying on the scenario, we could be the controller or the processor for private data. Our processing of your private data follows the Common Knowledge Safety Regulation (GDPR) authorized foundation of “Professional Pursuits.” If we switch private data from the EU, EEA, UK, Switzerland or one other nation with cross-border obligations, we’ll present an applicable safeguard. By making use of for this place, you consent to the gathering, processing and storage of your knowledge for recruitment functions solely. For extra particulars on how we deal with your data, please discuss with our .If in case you have any questions on our Privateness Coverage or how we deal with your private data, please contact .As a valued member of our workforce you possibly can anticipate:An thrilling, constructive, artistic, difficult and rewarding place to work. We offer you help, nurture your expertise and reward success. You’ll profit from a aggressive reward bundle and a variety of workers advantages, which features a beneficiant vacation entitlement, an outlined advantages , workers reductions, , versatile working and rather more. Entry our for additional data and use our to seek out out the overall worth of pay and advantages supplied.The College of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our dedication to advance gender equality in increased schooling. We’re members of the Race Equality Constitution and we’re additionally Stonewall Scotland Variety Champions, actively selling LGBT equality.If invited for interview you’ll be required to proof your proper to work within the UK. Additional data is out there on our webpages.The College is ready to sponsor the employment of worldwide employees on this function. If profitable, a world applicant requiring sponsorship to work within the UK might want to fulfill the UK Residence Workplace’s English Language necessities and apply for and safe a Expert Employee Visa.About Us: As a world-leading research-intensive College, we’re right here to deal with tomorrow’s biggest challenges. Between now and 2030 we’ll try this with a values-led method to instructing, analysis and innovation, and thru the power of {our relationships}, each domestically and globally.Concerning the Group:The School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences is a big and numerous a part of the College. Led by Vice-Principal Professor Sarah Prescott, it has over 16,000 undergraduates, over 8,400 postgraduate taught college students, 1,300 analysis college students and greater than 4,000 tutorial {and professional} companies workers. The School incorporates 11 Faculties (Enterprise; Divinity; Economics; Edinburgh School of Artwork; Training; Well being in Social Sciences; Historical past, Classics and Archaeology; Legislation; Literature, Languages and Cultures; Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences; and Social and Political Science), the Institute for Superior Research within the Humanities and the Centre for Open Studying. The School is situated on a number of websites throughout Edinburgh, with nearly all of Faculties and School Places of work primarily based near the central George Sq. space. The School, which is recognised as one of many world’s main centres for the humanities, humanities and social sciences in analysis and instructing, has been rising and investing strongly in recent times.The School operates on the highest ranges of worldwide high quality throughout a really big selection of disciplines within the arts, humanities and social sciences and submitted 1,130 workers throughout 20 Models of Evaluation within the REF2021. The School achieved an excellent consequence, combining a large-scale, broad and numerous submission with very top quality outcomes: 86% of our submission was assessed as being world-leading or internationally wonderful. Of the 20 Models we led or joint led, two got here first within the UK for breadth and high quality (Sociology, and Anthropology & Improvement Research). 13 had been ranked within the high 5. We’re extremely pleased with our analysis surroundings rating, which achieved a outstanding 100% within the two high classes of world-leading and internationally wonderful. This a part of the evaluation measures the ‘vitality and sustainability’ of the faculties and analysis centres by which analysis and affect is supported. This can be a fantastic recognition of collegial, supportive and inclusive analysis tradition. Inside CAHSS we have fun the contribution all of our workers made to the REF – not simply our researchers, however our technical {and professional} companies, our postgraduate and early profession researchers, and our college students, all of whom contribute to our flourishing surroundings.

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Location

Edinburgh – Midlothian

Job date

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 23:42:50 GMT

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