Deputy Dean

**Salary**

**Salary**: SS2 £81,702- £91,575 per annum

**Contractual hours**

35

**Basis**

Full Time

**Job category/type**

Professional Services

**Date posted**

12/03/2024

**Job reference**

REQ000081

**School of Health & Life Sciences**

**Permanent**

**THE POST** - Deputy Dean**

This University of West of Scotland is seeking a Deputy Dean to join the university and provide strong, dynamic and inspirational leadership and management across the school of Health & Life Sciences.

You will join a dedicated team who strive to continuously inspire our students and wider University community - and, through modern teaching and impactful research, continue to deliver innovative solutions to some of the world’s biggest challenges. The Deputy Dean is key to the successful delivery of the school’s contribution to the ambitions and priorities identified in the University’s strategy objectives.

Reporting to the Dean of School, the Deputy Dean is key to leading the delivery of the school’s plan, deputising for the Dean as appropriate. Leading the Associate Deans and Heads of Division, the Deputy Dean will operationalise strategic objectives in order to enhance student and staff experiences and ensure successful delivery and impact of the school plan and university strategy.

With proven Learning and Teaching experience and utilising exceptional management skills, the postholder will stimulate a high-quality, supportive and inclusive academic and research environment which encourages and supports staff to undertake activities that contribute to an excellent student and staff experience.

**As a Deputy Dean your key responsibilities will include**:

- Leading the development, sustainability, and viability of the school’s portfolio, ensuring alignment to market demand to meet the university’s recruitment targets
- Driving the school’s improvement across key performance indicators including student experience and satisfaction, retention, progression, and graduate outcomes
- Building effective networks and deliver communications both within the school and wider university including central and professional service functions to innovate, share good practice and improve performance, creating a culture of continuous quality enhancement within the school.
- Planning and delivery of the school’s resources on a medium to long-term basis, ensuring the delivery of the school plan, with alignment to university strategy
- Fostering excellent working relationships and networks with senior members of other schools, professional support services, other universities and external partners
- Lead on workforce planning, ensuring the effective and efficient deployment, development, and management of all staff in the school, including succession planning. With delegated authority from the Dean of School, ensure the school’s operational plan is delivered within budget, making significant contribution to the planning, monitoring, and effective management of school resources, maximising income generation, setting of targets for programme and school performance metrics
- Lead specific initiatives and projects within the school as agreed by the Dean and contribute to strategic and operational development of the university through leadership and participation in cross-university projects and initiatives identified by the Vice Chancellor’s Executive (VCE), identifying, creating, and facilitating opportunities for staff to be involved in cross-University initiatives, events, working groups and external projects.
- A successful track record of academic leadership and management at a senior level in an HE environment based on an appreciation of internal and external drivers, with a passion for innovation, creativity and collaboration across teaching, research and enterprise.
- Experience of workforce planning, organising, monitoring and reviewing business operations, resources, income generation to ensure a coordinated approach to academic and operational planning with a proven ability to deliver on a range of internal and external performance indicators.
- A track record of cross school leadership activities or within a unit of significant scale.
- Experience of successfully managing major change initiatives.
- Knowledge and understanding of the changing HE external and regulatory environment in the UK and internationally, and the key challenges these bring for the school.

**ABOUT US**

University of the West of Scotland is one of Scotland’s largest and most dynamic modern universities. Our reach across the country, together with our London campus, means that UWS is a significant force in global knowledge creation, innovation, and a leading provider of undergraduate, postgraduate and research degree education. Our degrees provide students with a transformational experience; equipping them with highly sought-after graduate skills that set them up for global success in world-leading sectors, industries and businesses.