Location: | Sheffield |
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Salary: | Senior staff grade - Competitive salary |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Permanent |
Placed On: | 8th March 2023 |
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Closes: | 17th April 2023 |
Job Ref: | 090325 |
Sheffield Hallam University is one of the UK’s largest and most diverse universities: a community of more than 30,000 students, 4,000 staff and more than 280,000 alumni around the globe. Our mission is simple: we transform lives. Our vision is to be the world's leading applied university; showing what a university genuinely focused on transforming lives can achieve.
Shortlisted this year for the Times Higher Education (THE) University of the Year, in the last three years we have been university of the year in the UK Social Mobility Awards and the Educate North awards, the Good University Guide’s university of the year for teaching quality, as well as receiving THE’s awards for entrepreneurial university of the year and for the outstanding contribution to the local community. The University leads thinking on higher education policy, civic engagement, widening participation and the role of universities as drivers of success in their communities.
We are now looking for our next Head of Department, Psychology Sociology and Politics to provide visible strategic leadership for the department, in a way which supports and enables our ambition to be the world’s leading applied university, delivers an excellent student experience and ensures a coherent and integrated approach to the enhancement, expansion and quality of all aspects of the department’s activity.
As our next Head of Department, you will oversee a significant period of change, supported by an incredibly committed staff group dedicated to the highest levels of student experience. You will be:
Importantly, as a member of the College Leadership Team, you will share our ‘Hallam Values’ of ambition, collaboration, inclusion, innovation and integrity, visibly role modelling these to staff both within the College and externally.
This is a key appointment for us, and it will be for you, so we will invest time to get to know you and to give you the chance to get to know us. For a confidential discussion please contact our advising consultants at GatenbySanderson:
Apply at: www.gatenbysanderson.com/job/gse97149/
We particularly welcome applications from women, candidates from ethnic minority backgrounds and disabled candidates, who are under-represented at senior academic levels.
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