Head of Research Change & Improvement

University-of-Oxford; Oxford; Hybride; GBP 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

38 days annual leave

Hybrid and flexible working

Cycle loan scheme

Bus travel discounts

Season ticket loans

Vibrant community and clubs

Résumé du poste

The University of Oxford is seeking a senior Change Director (Research) to establish and lead a reconfigured Business Improvement Team, shaping the university’s wider research change portfolio and coordinating improvements across systems, data and processes.

You will work across Research Services, academic departments and divisions, set priorities with senior leaders, and drive sustainable change to enhance researcher and service-user outcomes. Interviews will be held in Oxford.

Qualifications

• Substantial leadership experience and achievement in change programmes.
• Proven track record of leading complex change across multiple stakeholders.
• Credibility with researchers and senior academic leaders.
• Strong external network in research management.
• Outstanding communication, persuasion and stakeholder engagement skills.
• High personal effectiveness, organisation and coordination.
• Proven team leadership and development skills.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and adapt to evolving needs.
• Enabling, ambitious and proactive leadership style.

Responsabilités

• Lead development of a collective vision for research support across the lifecycle.
• Coordinate improvements to business processes, systems, data and insights.
• Represent research support needs to committees and inform priorities with researchers.
• Establish and lead the Business Improvement Team and join the Leadership Team.
• Drive governance, benefits realisation and sustainable change across the portfolio.

Connaissances

Leadership experience

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Strategic decision making

Communication skills

Team leadership

Programme coordination

Ambition and initiative

Relationship building

Description du poste

The University of Oxford is seeking a senior Change Director (Research) to establish and lead a reconfigured Business Improvement Team, shaping the university’s wider research change portfolio and coordinating improvements across systems, data and processes.

You will work across Research Services, academic departments and divisions, set priorities with senior leaders, and drive sustainable change to enhance researcher and service-user outcomes. Interviews will be held in Oxford.