Provost
- Employer
- GRESHAM COLLEGE
- Location
- London (GB)
- Closing date
- 21 Dec 2019
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- Job Type
- Senior Management & Heads of Department, Vice-chancellors / Principals / Provosts / Presidents
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
Applications are invited for the position of Provost of Gresham College in the City of London to succeed Professor Sir Richard Evans FBA. The Provost provides academic leadership for the College and is responsible for maintenance of its academic standards.
Gresham College (est. 1597) has provided free public lectures in the City of London for over 400 years. The College was founded out of the will of Sir Thomas Gresham, who, in pursuit of a radical vision of promoting the “new learning” to all, left funds for the maintenance of the College’s educational activities in perpetuity.
The presentations of the Gresham professors and invited lecturers are live-streamed and archived on the internet. The College intends to build upon its successes to extend its outreach to a wider and more diverse audience, working to satisfy a real appetite in London and across the world for deep thinking, authoritatively delivered knowledge, and cultural experience in an era of “fake news” and soundbite culture.
The Role: The overarching purpose of the role is to work with senior management and the Council in setting strategy, and to provide academic leadership for the College. The Provost is responsible for maintenance of the highest academic standards at the College.
The Person: The successful candidate will be a high-profile strategic leader and thinker, with outstanding academic credibility and a successful track record in research and publication, as well as the necessary management and diplomatic skills to maintain and enhance the status of the College nationally and internationally.
The appointment is part-time (2 days per week) from 1 August 2020, and will be for three years in the first instance, renewable upon the evaluation of Council.
Further information about this position is available on the Gresham website at: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/vacancies/Provost.
Informal discussion may take place with the Academic Registrar, Dr M. Clare Loughlin-Chow, Gresham College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Holborn, London EC1N 2HH
Telephone 020 7831 0575
Email: c.loughlin-chow@gresham.ac.uk.
The closing date for application is 9:00 am Monday 20 January 2020
Interviews will be held in London in February-March 2020
Company
Gresham College, established as the first institution of higher learning in London, provides free higher education in accordance with its mission and objectives:
- To continue to provide free public lectures of the highest possible standard, focussed on the maintaining of Gresham Professorships in an extensive range of academic disciplines, in accordance with the Vision of Sir Thomas Gresham as expressed in his Will in 1575
- To provide free and open access to new learning of contemporary relevance and interest in the widest possible international sense
- To contribute to society through the provision of stimulating free education, learning and debate, linked to the core value of freedom of thought and expression.
The College receives no government funding but continues to expand, supported by its sponsors, the Worshipful Company of Mercers and the City of London Corporation.
- Telephone
- +(44)02078310575
- Location
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BARNARDS INN HALL
HOLBORN
LONDON
EC1N 2HH
GB
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