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Edith Cowan University (ECU) is seeking an outstanding executive leader to take on the role of Vice-President (Corporate Services). This is a pivotal appointment that will shape the operational backbone of the university during a defining period of growth, investment, and transformation. This role offers a rare opportunity to lead ECU's corporate and enabling services portfolio at a defining moment for the university. With the recent opening of ECU City, a landmark inner-city campus that is reshaping higher education in Western Australia, the institution is moving into a critical phase of consolidation, optimisation, and value realisation. As Vice-President (Corporate Services), you will play a central role in embedding this new operating footprint, ensuring the financial, digital, and physical foundations are in place to sustain ECU's momentum and deliver on its long-term strategic ambitions. Reporting directly to the Vice-Chancellor, the Vice-President (Corporate Services) is responsible for leading a diverse and high-impact portfolio that includes Finance, Digital Services, Campus Environments, and the University Project Management Office. You will lead a team of senior executives, including the Chief Financial Officer, Chief Information Officer, Director of Campus Environments, and Director of the University Project Management Office and work collaboratively across the institution to ensure that ECU's corporate services enable academic excellence, operational performance, and long-term financial sustainability. This is a role for a strategic and transformational leader who is energised by complexity and motivated by impact. You will be responsible for shaping institutional strategy as a member of the University's Executive Leadership Team, driving enterprise-wide digital transformation and cyber security maturity, overseeing major capital works and sustainability initiatives, and embedding a scalable, customer-focused corporate services model across the university. You will also lead significant organisational and operational change, ensuring integration across portfolio functions and alignment to ECU's strategic priorities, while maintaining robust governance, risk, and compliance frameworks. The successful candidate will bring significant senior leadership experience from large, complex organisations, ideally with exposure to higher education, government, or other regulated environments. You will have a strong track record in financial strategy and resource allocation, alongside demonstrated experience leading digital transformation, enterprise systems, or major infrastructure programs at scale. Your ability to lead through change, build trusted partnerships with executive peers and governing bodies, and develop high-performing teams will be essential to your success in this role. At ECU, our values of Integrity, Respect, Rational Inquiry, Personal Excellence, and Courage are at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to creating an inclusive and forward-thinking environment where leadership is bold, collaboration is valued, and innovation is embraced. For further information and to apply, please submit a CV and covering letter, detailing how you fulfill the role description and personal specification to https://PLusPortal.PerrettLaver.com quoting reference 8479. The deadline for applications is 9am AWST, Friday 3rd July. For a conversation in confidence please contact Claudia Roth: Claudia.Roth@perrettlaver.com  Perrett Laver will conduct an executive search process in parallel with the public advertisement of the role. If you require any reasonable adjustments to assist you in the selection process, please advise us of these so that we can make appropriate arrangements. Perrett Laver’s Data Protection Policy  Protecting your personal data is of the utmost importance to Perrett Laver and we take this responsibility very seriously. Any information obtained by our trading divisions is held and processed in accordance with the relevant data protection legislation. The data you provide us with is securely stored on our computerised database and transferred to our clients for the purposes of presenting you as a candidate and/or considering your suitability for a role you have registered interest in. Perrett Laver is a Data Controller and a Data Processor, and our legal basis for processing your personal data is ‘Legitimate Interests’. You have the right to object to us processing your data in this way. For more information about this, your rights, and our approach to Data Protection and Privacy, please see our Privacy Statement.

King’s College London is one of the world’s leading universities, ranked amongst the top 40 globally and top 10 in Europe (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024). Founded in 1829, King’s has over 40,000 students from more than 150 countries and more than 10,000 staff across five campuses in the heart of London. Guided by King’s Strategy 2030, the University is committed to academic excellence, societal impact and service, and innovation and entrepreneurship. We are seeking a Director, Business Development & Innovation to play a pivotal leadership role at a moment of significant opportunity and change. The post presents an opportunity to work with others to help shape and scale how a major research‑intensive university translates research and knowledge into real‑world impact, whether economic, social, cultural or environmental. Business development and innovation are increasingly central to growth, public value and solutions to global challenges, and King’s is now seeking to accelerate its ambition, reach and effectiveness in this area. Reporting to the Executive Director, Research Management & Innovation, and working in close partnership with the Assistant Principal (Innovation), the Director will provide strategic and operational leadership for King’s Innovation Catalyst, the University’s central innovation and commercialisation function. The role sits at the intersection of academic ambition, institutional strategy and professional delivery, translating King’s Strategy 2030 into coherent, high‑quality business development and innovation activity, delivering measurable outcomes across all faculties and central functions. The Director will lead and strengthen King’s end‑to‑end business development and innovation pipeline, supporting multiple routes to impact, from early translational research and collaborative partnerships through to intellectual property management, licensing and venture creation. Central to the role is building clarity, consistency and confidence across commercial pathways, extending effective models, strengthening later‑stage translation and ensuring that King’s innovation activity is visible, sustainable and internationally competitive. The successful candidate will bring substantial experience in business development and innovation within a large, complex organisation. Expertise across intellectual property, licensing, partnerships and venture activity, alongside strong commercial and financial acumen is essential. Alongside credibility with academic and professional leaders, the successful candidate will bring team management experience and a clear commitment to impact‑driven innovation and service. Equally important is an appreciation for the ethos, culture and complexity of higher education. For further information about the role please visit the job description and to apply for this role, please go to the King’s College London Job Opportunities page and submit the specified documentation. Informal enquiries may be made to the King’s Search Team; please contact Jamie Surgenor or Mary Thomas at kings-search@kcl.ac.uk. To apply, visit our website. The advert will close on Tuesday 16 June 2026 at 23.59 hours. The selection process will include formal interviews, expected to take place in July 2026. 

HUMANISTIC. SUSTAINABLE. ENTREPRENEURIAL. Leuphana University of Lüneburg stands for innovation in research and education. Methodological diversity, interdisciplinary collaboration, transdisciplinary cooperation with partners outside academia and a dynamic development characterize its research profile in the fields of education, culture, management & technology, sustainability as well as public affairs. Its award-winning study model is organized into the Leuphana College, the Leuphana Graduate School and the Leuphana Professional School. Leuphana University invites applications for the following full professorship: Sustainability, Knowledge and Society (W2/W3) For this position, we are seeking an excellent professor with an outstanding internationally visible research and teaching profile (W3) or a committed scholar with international experience in research and teaching, who demonstrates the potential for excellent scientific contributions (W2) to join our School of Sustainability, a vibrant community of scholars committed to advancing our understanding of sustainability transformations and contributing to them through rigorous and socially relevant research. You explore within your research the field of sustainability science with a deep epistemological and methodological understanding of knowledge systems and co-creation processes for sustainable development. Your research profile in sustainable development leads you to implementing a future-oriented innovative research program that advances our understanding of knowledge production/ co-creation/systems and sustainability transformations. Your research contributes to sustainability science by advancing our field’s problem- and solution-oriented understanding of how knowledge is produced, used, and contested in sustainability transformations, how knowledge systems change vis-a-vis new technological developments (e.g., artificial intelligence, algorithmization) or socio-cultural shifts (e.g., science scepticism, epistemic pluralism), and how innovative research approaches can effectively integrate and utilize diverse knowledges. For an appointment at the W3 level your research is characterized by significant contributions to the field, that substantially shape scientific debates. Your expertise in the above-mentioned areas is demonstrated by a competitive track record of peer-reviewed publications in high-quality international journals (relative to opportunity). For a W3-professorship, we expect a continuous track record of excellent peer-reviewed publications in high-quality international journals. Furthermore, you have experience in successfully acquiring third party funding (relative to opportunity). For the W3 position, this experience includes leading roles in highly competitive funding programs (e.g. DFG, ERC) and/or collaborative research projects (e.g. EU-Horizon). Moreover, you indicate a highly promising publication strategy and pipeline and convincingly articulate a clear vision for how you plan to expand and institutionalize your research portfolio at Leuphana by making use of available competitive national and international funding opportunities.  In addition, you have a vibrant – for a W3 professorship an already established excellent – research and practice network; relevant experience in research projects and strive to develop impactful practice collaborations. Thus, you have experience in navigating the science-society nexus and are capable of forging collaborations across diverse disciplinary and epistemological perspectives; for a W3 appointment this includes substantive leadership experience. As your professorship is situated at the core of our School’s mission and vision, you are expected to drive collaborations with faculty members from diverse backgrounds (sciences, humanities) and take a leading role in developing existing and new research agendas of the School of Sustainability. Your research and methodological approach contributes to the University’s overarching profile focus “Embracing Transformation”. You have proven experience in the supervision of students (Bachelor, Master), Ph.D. (relative to opportunity) and can document your teaching experience in seminars in the subject areas of this professorship. For the W3 professorship you have an extensive teaching portfolio in seminar and lectures in this field ideally including transdisciplinary (project) seminars and experience in establishing and successfully mentoring a scientific research team including successful supervision of doctoral students. You are willing to play a leading role in further developing Leuphana’s unique study model, for example in the Leuphana Semester and the Transformation Module as well as for transdisciplinary project courses at Bachelor and Master level. As a teacher, you are able to guide and mentor students through the challenges of conducting relevant and rigorous inter- and transdisciplinary research, taking gender and diversity aspects into account. As our study programs are mostly in English we expect an excellent command of the English language; if you do not speak German you are willing to learn it within a reasonable period. The professional position will be filled in accordance with pay grade W2/W3 (university full professorship). Formal requirements are based on § 25 of the Lower Saxony Higher Education Act (NHG) and include a university degree as well as a doctoral degree in a discipline relevant to the open position (sustainability science, philosophy of science, science and technology studies, sociology of science, or related fields); your aptitude for teaching and your ability to engage in independent academic research as demonstrated by the above-average quality of your dissertation, and additional academic achievements obtained, i.e. in the course of being an assistant professor, during your postdoctoral lecture qualification (German: Habilitation) or other achievements recognized as being equivalent to a postdoctoral qualification (such as an excellent track record of peer-reviewed publications in high-quality international journals after the doctorate). At Leuphana you will find an academic community that is open to changes in perspective and cultivates the dialogue among the different disciplines as well as between research and practice. With spirit and initiative, we address the challenges of civil society in the 21st century. Pursuing our idea of liberal education, our students are enabled to think, question and act upon it. Our professors foster the awareness of gender and diversity aspects in teaching as well as research. Leuphana University is an equal opportunities employer. The university aims to increase its number of female professors. Qualified women are especially invited to apply. Severely disabled applicants and applicants with equivalent status will be considered preferentially in accordance with the applicable legal provisions. For further information, please contact the Dean of School of Sustainability, Prof. Dr. Harald Heinrichs (harald.heinrichs@leuphana.de). Please submit your application (without submission of an application photo) consisting of the following materials in two separate PDF files: a) motivation letter, CV, full publication list, copies of academic degrees, a research and cooperation concept (approx. three pages) and b) three relevant publications. Please enclose the completed application form (as Excel file) with your documents. Guidance on the required application materials can be found here. Applications should be sent preferably by email using the key word “Sustainability (W2/W3)” to beko@leuphana.de or to the President of Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Post Box 2440, Lüneburg D-21314 by July 07, 2026. Please be aware that we cannot return application documents sent physically. By submitting your application, you consent to your data being stored and processed for the purpose of the recruitment process.  Please note our Data Protection Notice for Applicants (in English or in German). 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