Director of Education

The role

At Bristol, we are developing a forward-thinking, socially minded Business School.

Our school’s mission is to "Inspire the next generation of global citizens and leaders to address the grand societal changes of our time."

We recognise the importance of being a global-civic school within the community of internationally leading business and management schools. Our focus on the most pressing global and societal challenges forces us to be critically reflective, evidence based and analytical in service to a progressive understanding of management and organisations.

We consider ourselves to be pluralistic and host diverse areas of academic expertise and excellence. As a social science-based school committed to an inclusive approach to rigorous inquiry, we are respectful of disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary science in developing novel insights.

At the heart of our mission is a commitment to world-class education delivery and we’re looking to appoint a new Director of Education that embodies this in the way they operate and the energy they bring. 

This is a role grounded in education policy, careful leadership and driving education innovation. You’ll be responsible for evolving and fine-tuning our education strategy, ensuring we can successfully deliver a learning experience for our students across UG, PG and Executive Education that is fitting of our ambitions.

Reporting directly to the Dean and a crucial part of the Business School Senior Leadership Team, your contribution to the strategic direction, management and development of the school will be vital, ahead of our move to a new home at the Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus (TQEC) in 2026.

What will you be doing?

The DOE role is expansive, so striking a fine balance between empowering others to deliver and being sufficiently across the detail is central to sustaining high levels of performance across all education segments.

You’ll also:

• Play a key role in our TQEC working group with a lens focused on education innovation, interdisciplinary educational offerings and executive education.
• Proactively connect with national peer networks for education and innovation.
• Attending key national conferences (such as CABS, British Academy of Management.
• Stay abreast of evolving education policy and regulation from OFS, Advance HE and others.

For a full and detailed statement of responsibilities please see the available job description.

You should apply if

This is a critical senior management position and as such we are looking for evidence of:

• A clear understanding of what a leading business school looks and feels like
• Academic Senior Leadership experience
• In depth experience in the design, delivery, and assessment of taught programmes
• Ideally already familiar with the requirements of Professional, Statutory, and Regulatory Bodies related to education delivery, or capable of swiftly getting up to speed in this area
• Solid evidence of operating at scale within a Business School
• Significant previous budgetary responsibility

Additional information

To apply for this role, please follow our standard applicaton process. This is by submission of an academic CV, alongside a covering letter outlining suitability for the role. 

This role is open to applications from Senior Lecturers/ Associate Professors and Professors from both pathway one and pathway three.  

This appointment is a 0.6 FTE leadership position for an initial term of 3-years. Alongside this is a substantive Professorial appointment or Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer appointment (depending on who is successful in taking the role).  More details on this can also be found in the job description.

This role closes for applications at 23.59 BST on Monday 30th October 2023.

For an informal discussion about the post, please contact business-school-dean-pa@bristol.ac.uk with your details and we can arrange a phone call or virtual meeting with Professor Veronica Hope-Hailey (Dean of the Business School).

For queries on terms and conditions, salary or the selection process, please contact liam.taylor@bristol.ac.uk.

Our strategy and mission

Available documents

• Director of Education - Bristol Business School JD.pdf
• Further Particulars - Professor PW1e.pdf
• Further Particulars - Professor PW3e.pdf
• Further Particulars - Senior Lecturer Associate Professor PW1d.pdf
• Further Particulars - Senior Lecturer Associate Professor PW3d.pdf