Business School
Associate Director

Location: Ormskirk
Salary: Competitive Salary
Post Type: Full Time
Reference: EHT1019-1019

Your discipline. Your passion. Our success, together. 

About You 
You will have highly effective co-ordination and leadership skills along with excellence in teaching and learning, delivery and innovation, and student experience enhancement. You will also have in-depth expertise relating to areas such as NSS, retention and subject-level TEF. Outstanding communication and liaison skills to develop and grow collaboration and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, professional bodies, learned societies, businesses and other organisations is also important. 

About the Role
You will share line-management responsibility in the Business School with the Director and the Associate Director (Quality Enhancement). You will participate in all aspects of departmental management and strategy, and have special responsibility for maintaining excellent standards in all aspects of Learning, Teaching & Assessment, and enhancing the Student Experience (primarily Undergraduate).

Rewards/Benefits
We want you to feel happy when you come to work and proud when you go home.

From the moment you join us you have the opportunity to enhance your skills. We offer various routes for progression, a range of specialist development sessions and academic development opportunities along with an award winning and comprehensive staff health & wellbeing programme (HR Excellence Awards 2017). This means you will receive a full academic induction, be enrolled if appropriate on our PGCTHE, benefit from the Edge Hill University CPD scheme (UKPSF) and our annual University Learning and Teaching day all to support your professional development. 

This is just a taste of what we are able to offer you at Edge Hill University.

About Us
 “A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year” – Times Higher Education. 

We are recognised for our outstanding achievements in student satisfaction, staff engagement, graduate employment and innovation as well as our strengthening research profile, investment and growth. The Times Higher ‘University of the Year’ award also celebrated our distinct role in “transforming lives” – reflecting a distinctive philosophy of creating opportunity from excellence.

The University has been ranked Best University Workplace (Times Higher Education 2015), judged Best UK Employer (European Business Awards 2016) and highly commended in Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2017 for Workplace of the Year.

Based on an award-winning campus in West Lancashire, Edge Hill University offers a stimulating and empowering environment for ambitious and high performing professionals.

For informal enquiries about this vacancy you may wish to contact: Professor Helen Woodruffe-Burton, Director of Business School at Burtonh@edgehill.ac.uk    

At Edge Hill University we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society 

Closing Date: Sunday 17 November 2019

To apply please visit: https://jobs.edgehill.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?id=1781&forced=1