Head of Study Abroad

Put up Title Head of Research Overseas

SBU/Division: Worldwide Workplace

FTE: 0.5 FTE (18.5 hours per week)  

Period of Contract: Everlasting 

Wage: UH9 £56,021pa professional rata to £63,029pa with potential to progress to £66,857pa by annual increments on attaining designated expertise and expertise  

Annual Go away: 30 days professional rata plus customary public holidays and a further 4 days together with the closure of our workplace between Christmas and New Yr

Location: Faculty Lane Campus, Hatfield

This can be a new and key publish to help the Director of Worldwide Schooling within the management, development and supply of the College’s research overseas and change exercise. As such, the Head of Research Overseas will contribute to the strategic growth and operational management of the research overseas programme and administration of the College’s change partnerships. It can contain vital communication and liaison internally with the College’s colleges of research and externally with the College’s change partnerships.   

Foremost duties and tasks

Key duties will embody helping in managing and creating the portfolio of worldwide partnerships with peer universities for research overseas and change and associated twin and joint award mobility alternatives. You’ll need to advise and help our educational colleges with the event of worldwide expertise alternatives for college kids and employees, together with quick time period mobility, in keeping with the International Expertise Technique. You’ll additionally help in managing mobility funding programmes, such because the Turing Scheme and different funding sources, together with budgets and software and in search of of recent funding sources. You’ll be anticipated to symbolize the College inside larger schooling organisations at nationwide, European and worldwide ranges, together with contributions to conferences, seminars and workshops.

Abilities and expertise required

You’ll need to have expertise of senior management and a data of the worldwide larger schooling panorama and expertise of research overseas and change exercise. The publish would require good communication, networking and liaison expertise with the power to construct relationships internally and externally in any respect ranges and to interact and encourage others within the growth and supply of research overseas. It can require good organisational expertise, the power to make use of initiative and a versatile method and supply to deadlines. 

{Qualifications} required

A minimal of a Bachelors Diploma or equal qualification. Additionally, you will have to be keen to journey abroad in assist of and growth of the College’s research overseas and change exercise.             

Please view the job description and individual specification for a full checklist of the duties and important standards.Please connect a private assertion displaying clearly how your expertise and expertise match the Particular person Specification.

We remorse that we’re unable to supply UKVI sponsorship for this publish; candidates will both maintain UK Proper to Work, or display entry to UK Proper to Work, earlier than a proposal is made.

Contact Particulars/Casual Enquiries: Maria Currant, [email protected]

Closing Date: 04 April 2024 

Interview Date: TBC 

Reference Quantity: 058155

Date advert positioned: 21 March 2024

Our imaginative and prescient is to rework lives: UH is dedicated to Equality, Variety and Inclusion and constructing a various group. We welcome functions from suitably certified and eligible candidates no matter their protected traits, and recognise there are alternative ways candidates might obtain the factors on this doc. We provide a spread of worker advantages together with beneficiant annual depart, versatile location alternatives throughout the UK, discounted Sports activities Village memberships and free Energetic Workers classes, private {and professional} growth and family-friendly insurance policies. #GoHerts