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Welcome
Thank you for your interest in the position of Pro-Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean, Global Partnerships. This is a significant opportunity for an outstanding leader to join our Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and to contribute to driving the University forward into a new chapter.
Ulster University is characterised as being the only university in Northern Ireland with campuses across the region, we are research-intensive while being committed to widening access, participation, and success. As a multi-campus university, we are acknowledged for our key role in delivering a pipeline of outstandingly capable graduates and postgraduates into a wide spectrum of workplaces whilst also contributing to societal and cultural enrichment of the region. As such, our place at the heart of Northern Ireland’s research and development ecosystem is very well established, as is the part we play in economic growth and civic enhancement.
We have over 30,000 students and 3,000 staff dispersed across our three main campuses, and our partner provision in London, Birmingham and Manchester. In addition, we have students studying Ulster awards globally, both online and through established partners, including our joint College with Shaanxi University of Science and Technology in X’ian, China. Building on our centres of excellence, our collaborative partnerships, globally impactful research and our sectoral leadership, Ulster University is making a difference every day to ensure a lasting positive impact for individuals and wider society.
We have begun this academic year with our new Strategy in place: People, Place and Partnership – Delivering Sustainable Futures for All. As a member of the SLT you will be instrumental in the enactment of this strategy, along with input from across the University.
The priorities of the role include:
- University-level strategic leadership, with a focus on the formulation of an international strategy and the expansion of Transnational Education;
- Oversee the development of new academic provision on partner campuses;
- Maximise recruitment and retention of students
The successful candidate will ensure that the overarching strategic aims of the University are achieved through, and reflected in, their effective leadership of the Faculty.
As the sector, and wider society, continues its journey towards greater prosperity, Ulster University’s Senior Leadership Team will be instrumental in ensuring that, as a unitary organisation and through the enactment of our Strategy focusing on people, place and partnership, we will deliver sustainable futures for all.
We wish you every success in your application.
Paul Bartholomew Paul Seawright
Vice-Chancellor Deputy Vice-Chancellor