Head of Department (HE)

About the Role

We’re looking to appoint a Head of Department (HE) who can provide strategic planning and subject area insights to help to deliver the schools’ strategic objectives. You should be a proven leader and excellent communicator, with a passion for innovative pedagogy, excellent student experience, and quality enhancement. With our degree subjects spanning from Environmental Science to Veterinary Nursing, you will need a broad land based subject oversight as you seek out ways to further enhance our academic offer. In collaboration with the other Head of Department and School Executive Team, and answering to the Executive Dean of the School, you will look for ways to enhance the student experience, from evaluating and implementing innovative pedagogic techniques, to ensuring a range of student opportunities to maximising our students’ employability or suitability for further study.

You should be qualified to doctoral level or a relevant professional qualification and be a Senior Fellow of a Higher Education Academy (or in the process achieving this). You should have experience of working in a similar role and leading change and have an established reputation in a land-based field of research or practice.

Interview Date: 18th October 

For more details, please take a look at the role profile. We'll still consider applications even if you don't meet every single one of the requirements, so don't be put off if you don't match them perfectly. 

About Us

We are the School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Science (ARES) at Nottingham Trent University. Our business is nature: specifically, the environment, animal health and welfare, ecology and conservation, and agriculture and food production.

Based on the 200-hectare estate of Brackenhurst campus, our school is comprised of a dedicated team of lecturers, researchers and students who are committed to the same vision of empowering staff and students to have positive impact on our planet, through improving the health and wellbeing of environments, animals, plants and people. Our goal is to now enhance and further embed the school’s reputation, by developing our pedagogy, resources, perspectives and ambitions towards this vision.

Our approach is innovative and inclusive. We feel it makes us that little bit different. It’s our goal to have a positive impact on the planet by improving the well being of environments, animals, plants, and people. If you see that passion in yourself, we can be a new, powerful partner in your career.

For any informal queries about the role or the ARES team, please contact Dawn Scott (Executive Dean) at dawn.scott@ntu.ac.uk.

Closing Date: 1^st October 2024

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