Professor of Social Policy and (Director of the Policy Evaluation and Research Unit)

Job title:

Professor of Social Coverage and (Director of the Coverage Analysis and Analysis Unit)

Firm

Manchester Metropolitan College

Job description

The Division of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan College is among the largest within the UK; with 85 members of workers and over 1500 college students throughout all ranges. We ship undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Criminology, Sociology and Social Coverage.

The Division is each teaching- and research-intensive, with a robust concentrate on utilized, empirical social science. Our success in attaining above sector pupil satisfaction demonstrates our dedication to glorious, student-centred studying.

The division is dwelling to a number of analysis centres, together with the Coverage Analysis and Analysis Unit, the Manchester Centre for Youth Research, and the Medication Coverage and Social Change unit. We’re additionally nationally recognised for our progressive strategy to quantitative strategies and information literacy by way of our Q-Step Centre. Within the REF21 we have been rated high 15 for analysis energy in each UoA20 and UoA21; our analysis is impactful, interdisciplinary and socially engaged. This function shall be primarily based within the Coverage, Analysis and Analysis Unit.

The Function
The division is seeking to appoint a Professor of Social Coverage who can even be Director of the Coverage Analysis and Analysis Unit, and take a management function within the Masters of Public Administration.

is a extremely profitable multi-disciplinary workforce of evaluators, economists, sociologists and criminologists. Established for over 15 years it has created a robust nationwide and worldwide popularity for analysis and utilized analysis. The postholder will information the subsequent stage of PERU’s growth together with working with the PERU administration group, the Head of Division and different key decision-makers within the College to ship PERU’s technique. This function consists of line administration of different Professors within the Group and total governance duties for all of PERU’s portfolio of initiatives, lots of that are massive, worldwide initiatives involving a number of companions and stakeholders.

Additionally, you will develop an internationally important portfolio of labor in social coverage in a number of of following sectors: poverty and work, social care, schooling, prison justice or housing and homelessness.

About you
You’ll convey important expertise of profitable and managing massive, advanced social coverage initiatives together with evaluations and utilized analysis, in addition to a global popularity for social coverage analysis. You will have important expertise of management in public our bodies, maybe gained by durations of time spent in senior management roles or by important advisory and governance roles in public our bodies.

Important Expertise:

• A great first diploma along with a PhD in a related self-discipline or equal {qualifications}/expertise
• Sturdy management and organisational abilities required to steer, handle and encourage a analysis workforce, prepare and mentor workers workers, postgraduate researchers and college students.
• Worldwide main analysis profile and recognised as an esteemed and influential authority within the subject.
• Proof of producing grant or contract revenue and outputs acceptable to the self-discipline.
• Contribution to the event of the related self-discipline, exhibiting affect and affect (comparable to by conferences, nationwide and worldwide networks and papers).

Additional data

**This appointment is being managed completely by our retained government search advisors, Berwick Companions. Please don’t apply for this function by way of the Manchester Metropolitan College web site**

For a casual dialogue about this function please contact Liam Younger by way of

Additional data, together with an in depth function description and individual specification, and data on the way to apply may be discovered right here –

Deadline for submission of purposes is Sunday 7 April 2024. Interviews shall be held on Wednesday 22 Might 2024.

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Anticipated wage

Location

Manchester

Job date

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 04:39:11 GMT

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