Chief People Officer
Lancaster University - People and Organisational Effectiveness
| Location: | Lancaster |
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| Salary: | Senior Salary |
| Hours: | Full Time |
| Contract Type: | Permanent |
| Placed On: | 7th October 2025 |
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| Closes: | 17th November 2025 |
| Job Ref: | 0814-25 |
Location: Bailrigg, Lancaster, UK
Interview date: To be confirmed
Lancaster University is a globally engaged institution set within a 578-acre parkland campus, home to a dynamic community of 24,000 students. We are proud to be a TEF Gold institution, consistently ranked in the UK’s top 10 by the Complete University Guide 2025, with nearly half of our REF 21 submission rated 4*. Alongside a growing international presence, including our new campus in Indonesia, Lancaster continues to expand its global reach and deliver world-class research and teaching.
We are now seeking an exceptional Chief People Officer to take on a pivotal role in shaping Lancaster’s future. This is a demanding and rewarding position, requiring a leader who can guide the University through a period of profound change with sensitivity, while ensuring that new models and ways of working are embedded, refined and delivering positive impact for the longer term.
As Chief People Officer, you will bring the wisdom, resilience and confidence required to lead across a wide range of people matters. In the near term, you will navigate demanding and sensitive employee relations, balancing fairness with firmness and managing complex negotiations with credibility and strength. Over time, your focus will shift to consolidating change, embedding new approaches, ensuring they deliver sustainable outcomes, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. You will combine determination and creativity, challenging established practice, inspiring colleagues to think differently and supporting them to adapt with confidence.
We are seeking an accomplished HR leader with a strong record of operating at a strategic level in complex organisations. You will have deep expertise in transformation, employee relations, organisational development and talent strategy. Above all, you will combine professional robustness with imagination and creativity, bringing both the courage to make difficult decisions during times of change and the vision to shape and embed new ways of working that endure.
This is a rare opportunity to have a lasting impact on one of the UK’s leading universities, supporting both our local community and our expanding global presence. If you are motivated by the challenge of steering a workforce through change and then shaping a progressive, high-performing and resilient organisation for the future, we would be delighted to hear from you.
For more information, please visit www.andersonquigley.com/lancaster-cpo.
The closing date for applications is noon on 17th November 2025.
Interviews will take place at Lancaster in mid January 2026.
Please note: unless specified otherwise in the advert, all advertised roles are UK based.
Find out what it's like to work at Lancaster University, including information on our wide range of employee benefits, support networks and our policies and facilities for a family-friendly workplace.
The University recognises and celebrates good employment practice undertaken to address all inequality in higher education whilst promoting the importance and wellbeing for all our colleagues.
We warmly welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of their age, religion, gender identity or expression, race, disability or sexual orientation, and are committed to promoting diversity, and equality of opportunity.
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