Head of Academic Planning (0.6fte)

LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university

Salary from £53,949 to £62,160 pa inclusive with potential to progress to £69,073 pa inclusive of London allowance (pro-rata to 0.6fte)

This is a fixed term appointment until December 2027 and is part time at 0.6fte.

This role is also available as a secondment opportunity for internal staff.

The LSE Law School is one of LSE’s largest academic departments. We are consistently ranked as one of the best Law Schools in the world including being ranked #1 for Law by the Guardian (2025) and #2 for Law by the Times (2025). Key to our continued success is the development of a Professional Services Team that matches the quality of our research, teaching and students. The Law School is an inclusive, challenging and rewarding place to work. We are looking for individuals who wish to contribute to and thrive in this environment.

Working closely in partnership with the Associate Dean (Education), the postholder will manage the teaching planning and workload allocation processes for academic staff in the Law School to ensure high-quality teaching and student experience. Advising at a strategic level, the post-holder helps to align teaching strengths with teaching delivery needs, ensuring equity and transparency in workload allocation. The post-holder is responsible for the process of recruiting and managing a wide range of Guest teacher and Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs), as well as owning the processes for considering sabbatical and other types of leave. Through line management of a small team, the post-holder oversees processes for the recruitment of academic staff and visiting appointments to the Law School.

Candidates must have extensive administrative experience in higher education and proven experience in academic planning, workload allocation models, resource management, or similar processes. Experience of analysing and interpreting complex data is essential, as is experience of preparing high-quality reports, data, and recommendations to support decision-making. Very strong attention to detail is essential, together with a willingness to experiment with and learn new technologies to improve services. Experience in staff management and budget management, is desirable.

We offer an occupational pension scheme, generous annual leave, hybrid working, and excellent training and development opportunities. The nature of hybrid working is for agreement between the post-holder and the line manager at the point of offer.

For further information about the post, please see the how to apply document,  job description and the person specification.

If you have any technical queries with applying on the online system, please use the “contact us” links at the bottom of the LSE Jobs page. Should you have any queries about the role, please email p.sullivan@lse.ac.uk

The closing date for receipt of applications is 11^th January 2026 (23.59 UK time). Regrettably, we are unable to accept any late applications.

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