Head of the Provost's Office

Location: South Kensington campus (hybrid). The College is currently trialling a Work Location Framework. The role holder will be expected to work 60% of their time onsite.

Job summary: The College has an opportunity for an outstanding individual to lead the Provost’s Office team in the delivery of excellent strategic support of the Provost, Professor Ian Walmsley FRS. The Provost leads the academic mission of the College, overseeing its research, education and innovation and translation activities.

Duties and responsibilities: Your primary responsibility will be to facilitate the effective and efficient running of the Provost’s Office, within the complex College and wider higher education environment. You will lead on the annual cycle of initiatives and events within the Provost’s remit and manage the coordination of relevant committees and working groups for strategic, cross-College projects. You will act as a conduit to help ensure effective information flow, both within the College and with important external contacts, ensuring that Professor Walmsley is provided with appropriate information and research to inform decision making at the highest level.

Essential requirements:

This role will provide an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys interesting and varied work and is not daunted by complexity and change.

To succeed in the role, you will need:

• experience of leading a team to deliver outstanding support of strategic objectives
• excellent interpersonal skills, with a demonstrable ability to deal with people and information with tact, sensitivity and discretion
• first-rate analytical skills and project coordination skills
• ample experience of prioritising and balancing several competing agendas
• ability to work with little direct supervision.

Further information:

We strive to build a flexible working environment, reflective of commitments and personal interests outside of work and we are happy to discuss flexible working options for this role. To support a healthy and sustainable work-life balance, we offer a generous annual leave allowance (up to 40 days a year in total) as well as special and family leave. We provide a wide-ranging benefits package that includes a variety of loans to help with transport, education or renting a home, as well as financial assistance with childcare (in addition to our award-winning Early Years Education Centre). We also provide a range of networks and training resources to enable you to develop your professional skills. To aid physical wellbeing, Move Imperial offers discounted sessions for staff in all the College’s state-of-the-art facilities, including a gym, swimming pool and a climbing wall.

For informal discussions about the post, please contact Monika Hockenhull, m.hockenhull@imperial.ac.uk.

For queries about the application process, please contact Maria Monteiro, at m.monteiro@imperial.ac.uk Telephone 0207 594 5498.

Closing date: 27 February 2023

We are committed to equality of opportunity, to eliminating discrimination and to creating an inclusive working environment for all. We therefore encourage candidates to apply irrespective of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender reassignment, sex, or sexual orientation. We are an Athena SWAN Silver Award winner, a Disability Confident Leader and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.

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