Pro-Vice-Chancellor Education and Student Experience

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Pro-Vice-Chancellor Education and Student Experience

Company

Royal Holloway, University of London

Job description

We are dedicated in everything we do to being a university of social purpose, with a strong emphasis on principles of academic excellence and inclusion. This shared purpose is threaded through our education, our research and the ways in which our students and colleagues engage with wider society in local, national and global contexts. Our students are at the heart of our thinking and we are also proud to be one of the country’s leading research-intensive institutions, assessed to be in the top 25% in the UK in REF2021. Through the dedication of our academics to teaching and learning, discoveries that change the world, and the distinctive feel of the Royal Holloway experience, we have built a diverse and supportive community that inspires students and colleagues to succeed.Under the leadership of our Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Professor Julie Sanders, we are now seeking to appoint an exceptional Pro-Vice-Chancellor Education and Student Experience. The post is absolutely central to achieving our vision and mission. With responsibility for all aspects of the Education portfolio, you will have the opportunity to work with and to build engaged and dedicated teams with specialisms, including educational transition and success, curriculum design, pedagogies and assessment, employability and skills, and wellbeing and student engagement, and to operate in partnership with our students to foster an inclusive and supportive culture of high achievement and continuous improvement.The successful candidate will be someone who is reimagining the educational support and interventions needed along the student journey in ways that are future-facing and open and responsive to student voice at every stage. You will have a track record of sustained senior leadership in a comparably complex institution, together with exceptional communication skills and a proven ability to work collaboratively across a diverse range of stakeholders. We are keen to work with someone with a proven and sustained track record of delivering educational excellence and with innovative ideas and ambitions for the future.This is a really exciting time for the University. As we launch our new strategy, RH2030s, we intend as a community and as a leadership team to shape a future that is as inclusive and daring as the principles which were at the heart of our two founding colleges, Bedford and Royal Holloway, which opened to enable women’s education in 1849 and 1886, respectively. If you have the right experience, skills and track record of success and share our passion and ambition, we would be delighted to hear from you.For further information, including a full candidate brief, and to apply, please visitApplications are invited by close of business on Friday 4 October 2024.Royal Holloway is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), and encourages applications from all people regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, parental status, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or trans status or history. More information on our structures and initiatives around EDI, including information on staff diversity networks, can be found on our .CompanyOne of the UK’s leading research-intensive universities.Royal Holloway is one of the UK’s top 20 universities, ranked 129 globally (Times Higher Education World University Rankings, 2015-16). We sit within the top 25% of UK universities for research that is rated world leading or internationally recognised and at 89%, our 2015 National Student Survey satisfaction rating is the highest of the University of London institutions.The university has 21 academic departments and schools spanning the arts and humanities, sciences, social sciences, management, economics and law. We combine our world-class research and excellence in teaching with a global perspective, creating a close-knit community that inspires success. With some 9,000 students learning from internationally renowned academics and researchers, ours is a unique culture, where our students and colleagues feel recognised as individuals. We have a unique best-of-both-worlds location; a safe, leafy campus in Egham, Surrey, less than 40 minutes by train from central London and just seven miles from Heathrow airport, creating the environment where our community thrives.Company info Mini-site Telephone +(44)01784 434455 Location EGHAM HILL
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Egham, Surrey

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Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:13:30 GMT

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