Associate Director of Digital, Space & Sustainability

About the Role

Associate Director of Digital, Space & Sustainability Queen Mary University of London

This is a rare opportunity to sit at the intersection of digital transformation, space strategy, and sustainability three of the most critical drivers of modern higher education.

You will lead the development and delivery of integrated strategies across:

• Digital transformation: enabling a smarter, more connected estate.
• Space: ensuring space is flexible, inclusive, data-informed, and fit for the future.
• Sustainability and net zero delivery: embedding environmental responsibility into every aspect of how we design, use, and manage space.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading cross-university programmes that integrate digital, space, and sustainability.
• Driving data-informed decision-making around estate utilisation and investment.
• Shaping our roadmap to net zero in relation to buildings, infrastructure, and operations.
• Translating long-term strategies into practical, measurable delivery plans.
• Building strong partnerships across academic and professional services teams.
• Influencing senior stakeholders and governance boards with clarity and confidence.

About You
You will likely bring:

• Senior leadership experience in digital transformation, space and sustainability.
• A strong track record of delivering large-scale, cross-functional change.
• The ability to connect strategic vision with operational reality.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to inspire diverse stakeholders.
• A collaborative, systems-thinking mindset.

Experience in higher education is welcome but not essential, what matters most is your ability to think boldly, deliver effectively, and bring people with you.

Why join us?
You’ll be working in an environment that values innovation, public impact, and long-term thinking, with the opportunity to leave a visible legacy across digital systems, physical spaces, and environmental performance.

Department
The Directorate is one of the largest within Queen Mary, University of London and is committed to supporting and promoting staff, student and stakeholder wellbeing, providing the highest standards of estates and facilities possible.

About Queen Mary
Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time / fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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