Director of Law Clinic

About ARU:

ARU is a global university transforming lives through innovative, inclusive and entrepreneurial education and research. ARU holds a Gold award for the quality of its education, awarded through the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). ARU’s research institutes and four faculties bridge scientific, technical and creative fields. We deliver impactful research which tackles pressing issues and makes a real difference to our communities. Our academic excellence has been recognised by the UK’s Higher Education funding bodies, with 16 of our research areas assessed as world leading. We are the largest provider of Nursing, Midwifery, Health and Social Care students in the East of England, and we are also among the UK’s leading universities for degree apprenticeship provision, working with hundreds of employers across the UK.

About the Role:

Based across Cambridge and Chelmsford, you’ll provide operational leadership and develop the experiential legal provision, embedding an impactful and inclusive experiential learning environment at the heart of the Law School. You’ll lead the development of clinical and practice-based legal education, working closely with academic colleagues and external partners to embed real-world learning across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. During an exciting period of portfolio growth, you will play a key role in strengthening student employability, civic engagement, and the Law School’s external profile, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, sustainable experiential learning opportunities.

About you

You’ll be an experienced legal academic or practitioner with significant expertise in clinical or experiential legal education and a strong record of leadership in higher education or professional practice. With a postgraduate qualification in Law (or equivalent professional standing), you will bring vision, credibility with partners, and the ability to lead complex initiatives in a collaborative environment. Adaptable and values-driven, you will be motivated by widening participation, access to justice, and creating meaningful impact for students, partners, and the wider community.

This is a rotational 3-year role as Director of Law Clinic, then the position reverts to the substantive role of Senior Lecturer(SL)/Associate Professor(AP).

Informal enquiries can be made to Alicia Virtue, at alicia.virtue@aru.ac.uk or on 01245 684880.

We have an agile working culture and offer an extensive range of benefits including generous holiday entitlement, occupational pension schemes, training and development opportunities, travel to work scheme and a competitive relocation package. Visit our benefits page for full details.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting welfare of our staff and students and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants should be aware that ARU will carry out online searches as part of the due diligence on short listed candidates.

We value diversity at ARU and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We have a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK and will conduct Right to Work checks in line with UKVI’s Right to Work policy and our own institutional policy. Furthermore, we must note:

• Applicants applying from outside the UK: At this time, ARU is unable to sponsor applicants applying from overseas for a Worker Route visa.
• Applicants already in the UK: ARU is unable to offer Worker Route visa sponsorship to applicants whose salary does not meet our minimum sponsorship threshold, which aligns with roles at Grade 6 and above.

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