Executive Dean - Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine
- Employer
- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
- Location
- London (Greater) (GB)
- Salary
- Competitive, commensurate with the experience of the successful applicant
- Closing date
- 12 May 2021
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- Academic Discipline
- Life sciences
- Job Type
- Senior Management & Heads of Department, Deans
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
King's College London
The Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine (FoLSM) is one of Europe's largest and most prestigious centres for biomedical education and research. A powerhouse of discovery and innovation, our collective ambition is to deliver tangible improvements to patient care, population health and societal wellbeing. Our vibrant community is comprised of seven Schools and a Centre for Education, over 1,200 academic and research staff, and over 6,000 talented students.
The Faculty plays a pivotal role in King's strategic alliance with three of London's leading NHS Foundation Trusts: Guy's and St Thomas' (now incorporating Royal Brompton & Harefield); King's College Hospital; and South London and Maudsley. Together we form King's Health Partners, one of only eight accredited Academic Health Sciences Centres (AHSCs) in England, with a joint commitment to ensure faster translation and adoption of research innovation into clinical practice.
Students and enhancing the student experience are at the heart of our strategy. Our comprehensive portfolio includes undergraduate health professions programmes (Medicine, Nutrition & Dietetics, Pharmacy, and Physiotherapy) and a wide range of postgraduate taught programmes. Our commitment to broaden participation in higher education is exemplified by our recently expanded flagship Extended Medical Degree Programme.
We are now seeking to appoint an outstanding leader to the role of Executive Dean, building on our local and global impact by developing and delivering an ambitious strategy. The successful candidate will be a leader with significant experience of management and leading change, with a distinguished profile in a field relevant to the Faculty's portfolio. Reporting to the Provost (Health) the Executive Dean will be a key member of the Academic Board, the Senior Management Team, and the Health Faculties Executive Committee (HFEC).
FoLSM is proud to hold an Athena SWAN Silver Award, and we expect our next Executive Dean to be committed to embedding an inclusive environment that celebrates and enables the diversity of our students and staff in everything that we do.
For further information about the role please visit https://jobs.kcl.ac.uk/gb/en/lsm-executive-dean and to apply for this role, please go to the King's Career pages to submit the specified documentation. Informal enquiries may be made to the King's Search Team; please contact kings-search@kcl.ac.uk
The deadline for applications is 5pm on Wednesday 12th May 2021. Interviews will be held in June & July 2021.
The Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine is one of nine academic faculties at King's College London, a multi-disciplinary, research-led university with over 31,000 students and 8,500 employees based in the heart of London, one of the world's most exciting cities. We are located across four central London campuses, which reflect our close alignment to our NHS partners: Guy's Campus at London Bridge, St Thomas' Campus and the Franklin Wilkins Building at Waterloo; and King's Denmark Hill Campus.
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King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.
King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.
King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.
King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.
King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.
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