ABOUT US

At the heart of our Strategy for 2030 and Beyond, it is our mission to enable our students to transform their lives and to achieve their potential. Through our education and research, and the roles our graduates go on to play in the world, we not only support individuals to transform their lives, but we also play a part in transforming society.
Located in the centre of the UK’s second city, we are a university with a long heritage of innovation and of making, dating back to our origins in 1843 when we were founded as the Birmingham Government School of Design.
Our heritage of making through innovation and its application through knowledge exchange, and of creative research and practice, today finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our research and enterprise, and in our commitment to challenge-based learning. Working across disciplines, and delivering impactful research and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is at the heart of the continuing transformation of our academic portfolio.

THE ROLE

We are seeking to appoint to the role of Dean of Students, a strategically significant leadership position with responsibility for advancing and sustaining academic excellence across the institution.

The Dean of Students is a new role reporting to the Pro-Vice Chanceller Education to directly work with Birmingham City University’s (BCU) academic Schools to:

• Provide strategic leadership for the university in Teaching and Learning to deliver the university’s ambitions of Strategy 2030.
• Be accountable for the delivery of strategic and operational outcomes (as measured by Key Performance Indicators, KPIs), as related to learning and teaching, student experience, student employability and equitable outcomes/opportunities.
• Provide strategic coordination to ensure that each School is adopting and applying pedagogic practices and approaches personalized to individual student needs and will be accountable that these practices lead to significant and sustained improvements in the key metrics of student success and attainment that move BCU up university league tables.
• Work closely with Deans of School to build a robust and mature culture of continuous improvement and innovation in Teaching and Learning activities that are shared and adopted across the university as they prove their worth.

Set and maintain standards for academic quality in the delivery of Teaching and Learning at BCU.
Reporting to senior executive leadership, the postholder will work in close collaboration with academic and professional services colleagues to drive alignment, enhance academic performance, and support the institution’s strategic goals.
The successful candidate will bring a strong record of academic leadership, a deep understanding of institutional performance, and a proven ability to lead complex change initiatives within a higher education setting.
In addition to completing the application process, applicants are asked to upload an up-to-date CV.