Dean of Students

The full-time salary is £110,000.00 per annum.

For almost two centuries, Birmingham City University has shaped thousands of lives. We have helped redefine a city, influenced the region, and impacted further afield. From our roots as the Birmingham Government School of Design, we have forged a formidable history. 

As a teaching-intensive University, our courses are rooted in practice-based learning, and we provide wider support that sets our students up to succeed after graduation. While this is our core focus, we recognise the enduring importance of research and enterprise activity, which is acknowledged within our newly launched strategy, setting us on our path to 2030 and beyond. 

If you can see yourself joining our ambitious journey, then we certainly want to hear from you.

The Role

We are seeking to appoint to the role of Dean of Students, a strategically significant leadership position with responsibility for advancing and sustaining academic excellence across the institution.

The Dean of Students is a new role reporting to the Pro-Vice Chanceller Education to directly work with Birmingham City University’s (BCU) academic Schools to:

• Provide strategic leadership for the university in Teaching and Learning to deliver the university’s ambitions of Strategy 2030.
• Be accountable for the delivery of strategic and operational outcomes (as measured by Key Performance Indicators, KPIs), as related to learning and teaching, student experience, student employability and equitable outcomes/opportunities. 
• Provide strategic coordination to ensure that each School is adopting and applying pedagogic practices and approaches personalized to individual student needs and will be accountable that these practices lead to significant and sustained improvements in the key metrics of student success and attainment that move BCU up university league tables. 
• Work closely with Deans of School to build a robust and mature culture of continuous improvement and innovation in Teaching and Learning activities that are shared and adopted across the university as they prove their worth. 

Set and maintain standards for academic quality in the delivery of Teaching and Learning at BCU.

Reporting to senior executive leadership, the postholder will work in close collaboration with academic and professional services colleagues to drive alignment, enhance academic performance, and support the institution’s strategic goals.

The successful candidate will bring a strong record of academic leadership, a deep understanding of institutional performance, and a proven ability to lead complex change initiatives within a higher education setting.

In addition to completing the application process, applicants are asked to upload an up-to-date CV. 

Birmingham City University is deeply committed to equality, diversity, and inclusivity at all levels in the organisation, and to addressing underrepresentation in our workforce to ensure we are truly representative of the community we serve. We welcome applications from applicants from all backgrounds and communities for this role, and particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic applicants.

The University is proudly Disability Confident. This means amongst other things that we commit to offering a guaranteed interview to disabled applicants who fully meet the essential criteria for each role.

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