Director of Manchester School of Theatre

at  Manchester Metropolitan University

ABOUT MANCHESTER MET

With over 5,100 staff members across the university, and around 43,000 students – we are a big institution with even bigger ambitions. We are proud to be at the heart of one of Europe’s most diverse and vibrant cities, and with shared traditions of industry, innovation and inclusivity, our impact reaches around the globe.
We are committed to providing excellent education to transform our students’ lives, and to delivering high quality research with powerful real-world impacts and benefits, as evidenced by our highly successful REF outcome: 30% of our research, across more than 740 academics, has been rated as world leading. And 91% of our research impact is world leading or internationally excellent (REF 2021).

FURTHER INFORMATION

The post will be primarily campus-based working at our All Saints campus in Manchester city centre.
Applications must be made via our recruitment system and should include a full CV and a letter of application setting out your interest in the role and details of how your knowledge, skills and experience match the essential criteria being sought.
Please refer to the full Director of Manchester School of Theatre Job Description and the appropriate Professor Job Description documents, for your information. Applicants who are academic researchers should refer to the Research Education and Citizenship (REC) pathway; other applicants should refer to the Education, Pedagogy/Practice
If you would like an informal discussion prior to application, please do get in touch via PAtoHeadofAandP@mmu.ac.uk.

• Provide vision and operational leadership, developing new strategic directions for our creative offer that embed the University’s Education and Research strategies.
• Foster a creative and stimulating environment, working with colleagues to develop programming, income generation and/or sponsorship to support curriculum development, research innovation and theatre operations.
• Build the School of Theatre’s profile, brand development and reputation through advocacy and external engagement with arts and culture organisations, the creative sector, research and industry partners locally, nationally and globally.
• Establish and chair an advisory panel of theatre and performance industry experts to ensure strategic alignment of priorities and activities to current and future graduate outcomes and industry needs