Associate Dean – External Partnerships

Job Description

Location: Across Campuses, based in Birmingham

About Scholars School System

Scholars School System is a national independent higher education provider, offering world class education. Taught programmes delivered in partnership with Leeds Trinity University and courses ranges from Foundation Year to Undergraduate Degrees. Over 5000 (UK and EU) learners have successfully completed their journey in last five years and current student population is around 3000.

Our core values are very important because

• We share a common set of values across everything we do which helps to define who we are and how we behave.
• We put our students and our community at the heart of all that we do.
• We foster excellence, innovation and creativity.
• We celebrate diversity, inclusion, equality and the breaking down of barriers to success.
• We have high expectations of ourselves, our students and our partners.

Reports to: Higher Management

The key responsibilities of the position of Associate Dean - External Partnerships include:

• Being accountable for maintaining current partnerships and overseeing the development of new partnerships that will increase growth.
• Ensuring effective communication is in place with partners
• Supporting the development of new business opportunities
• Managing projects such as press conferences, thought-leadership events, executive interviews issues management
• Creating and driving a pro-active programmer of external relations initiatives such as media announcements, executive interviews, by-liner article placement
• Managing colleagues on administrative and organisational tasks such as client mailings, maintenance of client database.
• Co-ordinating, process and track incoming community investment requests
• Collaborating with, faculty and senior leaders on innovations and goals and develop plans for implementation
• Gathering and organising information from a variety of sources and present in a clear and concise manner – both written and verbal
• Highly visible role, both externally and internally, requiring regular interaction with senior management

Highest Qualification & Experience

• PhD in a related field with relevant experience in setting up new and managing existing partnerships.
• Recommending changes to existing policies and procedures to ensure compliance with partner university guidelines
• Self-motivated, team-oriented individuals who can thrive in a challenging, fast-paced environment
• Practical experience in the marketing or Practice Area/knowledge group or client team/business development areas, international experience a plus
• Strong technical and analytical skills, experience in database management preferred
• Ability to work in a dynamic team environment with constantly changing priorities

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