Person specification

Education

  • PhD, or equivalent, in a relevant or cognate discipline

Leadership Experience

  • Substantial experience of university leadership
  • Substantial experience of medium to long term strategic planning and delivery
  • Substantial experience managing staff, both academic and support personnel
  • Substantial experience managing budgets to planned levels of income and expenditure
  • Substantial experience representing and publicising his/her organisation effectively in national and international contexts
  • Experience leading international research and/or teaching collaborations
  • Experience of the UK higher education sector, including the governance of UK universities and issues facing the UK higher education sector

Research Experience

  • Research of international standing in field
  • Substantial experience of publishing research outcomes
  • Substantial experience of securing research funding and project management
  • Extended experience of successfully supervising the projects of taught and research students or company staff at equivalent

Teaching Experience

  • High quality teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels
  • Experience of planning and organising the delivery of quality undergraduate and postgraduate teaching
  • Experience of leading programme and curriculum development

Skills and Abilities

  • Strong emotionally intelligent leadership
  • Interpersonal, communication and team working skills, commensurate with leading a large academic centre in a complex organisation