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Vacancy Id: 9535
College / Service: Research Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise
Location: Hybrid – UAL High Holborn/Home
Salary: £55,421 - £66,943 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Term: Full time – 35 hours per week
Apply by: 20 March 2023 at 23:55
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The opportunity
The Head of Strategic Projects and Operations will play a key leadership role in building the new cross Research, Knowledge Exchange & Enterprise (RKEE) project and operational support department.
The role will sit on the RKEE Senior Leadership Team (SLT), working alongside the DVC and Directors, with specific responsibility for and oversight of the strategic projects and centralised operational delivery for RKEE.
UAL has an ambitious strategy to grow our Research, Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise activity, and this role will be key to supporting this success by developing a team who will support varied projects to drive growth across the department, in line with the UAL strategy, RKEE strategy, and agreed business plans.
This is a role for an experienced programme manager or similar, able to simultaneously manage important operational delivery with long term strategic projects.
About you
Our staff come from a diverse range of professional backgrounds both within Higher Education and further afield. We value the experience they bring with them.
You will be an experienced programme manager who motivates and leads effectively, setting the direction of your team and service, to enable and promote collaboration and innovative problem solving across formal boundaries. You will have experience of building effective, service focussed teams, and will promote and enable an inclusive environment; and will apply these principles to the development of the service.
You will have experience of delivering successful strategic and operational management, and experience navigating and delivering change, in a complex organisational environment with multiple stakeholders.
You will bring an in depth knowledge of project, programme and change management, and business planning and business processes.
This role is based within the Research, Knowledge Exchange & Enterprise division, working across university, and will require strong communication, relationship building and networking skills.
Informal enquiries about this opportunity are welcomed, please contact Mairead Kelly, Director of Academic Enterprise on m.i.kelly@arts.ac.uk to discuss.
If you have any queries about this role or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact Twinkle Brahmbhatt, Senior Resourcing Adviser via email at RKEEstaffrecruitment@arts.ac.uk.
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.
Vacancy Id: 9535
College / Service: Research Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise
Location: Hybrid – UAL High Holborn/Home
Salary: £55,421 - £66,943 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Term: Full time – 35 hours per week
Apply by: 20 March 2023 at 23:55
Please read through our FAQs page before applying.
A full copy of the job advert along with other information (such as interviews date, hiring process etc) is available by clicking on the ‘Apply’ button below.
