Director of Strategy, Risk and Planning

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The opportunity

If you want to make a tangible impact on the future of creativity in the UK, this role offers an unrivalled opportunity to contribute to one of the most innovative parts of the UK’s Higher Education ecosystem.

The newly established role of Director of Strategy and Planning will play a critical part in supporting UAL through a vital phase of growth and development. Sitting within the President and Vice-Chancellor’s Office, you will lead a new Directorate of Strategy and Planning, working with two teams (one to be established) utilising your strong expertise in informed decision making, robust business planning and data infrastructure. Focusing on strategic performance and insight, risk identification, evidence-driven analysis, horizon-scanning, and a policy focus, you will have the capability to support the most innovative ways in which UAL can realise its ambitions.

About you

This is a significant senior leadership role at a pivotal and transformative point in our history. Wherever you are now, you will have the ability to work at pace in an often-ambiguous environment, anticipating risk and trends in the Higher Education and creative sectors and across the broader political environment. You will be driven, yet collaborative, as well as possess highly developed skills to influence and problem-solve. Dynamic, progressive and innovative, you will have a high capacity for self-reflection, emotional maturity and the resilience to help push through the changes UAL requires for the future, while acting as an agent of change for equity and diversity.

Starfish is acting as an employment agency advisor to UAL on this appointment process.

Closing date – Friday, 28 April 2023 at 12 noon.

Application is by submission of a full curriculum vitae (no more than three sides) and a short supporting statement (maximum two sides) that sets out why you are interested in joining the University of the Arts London as the Director of Strategy, Risk and Planning. 

For further details, including a candidate pack, job description, person specification and information on how to apply, please visit Starfish’s job page.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

Our culture

We have become one of the world’s most international Universities, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. And, as a global university, staff and students learn from different cultures and perspectives, which leads to new conversations and innovative work. At our very core, everything we do seeks to challenge the status quo by driving social purpose and standing up for what matters.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds including those who may feel underrepresented in the workforce due to their socioeconomic circumstances such as those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) backgrounds. We aim to be a university where everyone can be themselves and are supported to reach their full potential.

With our commitment to inclusion and diversity, we are proud to be a Race Equality Charter (REC) member to help us reduce barriers that negatively impacts B.A.M.E. staff, a Stonewall Diversity Champion to ensure all LGBTQ+ people are valued at work, a Disability Confident Scheme Committed employer and member of the Business Disability Forum which help us to improve the lives of disabled people in the workplace.

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