Non-Executive Council Members

University of Chester; Chester; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Chester invites applications for Council Members to help steer its ambitious agenda and strategy. Candidates with a strong background in areas like Technology, Estates, and Higher Education are sought to enhance the board’s diverse expertise. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to an esteemed institution’s growth and impact.

Skills

Estates & Property

Technology

Marketing, Brand & PR

Higher and Tertiary Education experience

Human Resources

Legal

The Creative Industries

Job description

The multi-award winning University of Chester was crowned Business School of the Year in November 2024 by Times Higher Education and for the second year running University of the Year in the North West by the WhatUni Student Choice Awards. Welcoming students from across the UK and 123 countries worldwide at the heart of the University’s vision is an unwavering commitment to an outstanding student learning experience, excellent teaching, and actively growing research and enterprise.

This is a critical point in the University’s evolution as it seeks to deliver its revised Citizen Student Strategy 2024- 30. This includes exciting plans for a new academic framework and a comprehensive estates masterplan. In expanding its professional programmes, The Chester Medical School has recently welcomed its first cohort of graduate entry medical students , and the University has ambitious plans for a dynamic, place-shaping, partnership agenda.

Following the appointment of a new Chair, the University is now seeking to secure a number of new Council Members (non-executive Board Governors). The University is looking for exceptional individuals, with the intellectual capacity, commercial acumen, strategic expertise, and external networks to ensure that the University achieves its ambitions and continues to expand its reach, reputation, impact, and profile.

In particular, the following skills/expertise would be particularly welcome at this time:

• Estates & Property
• Technology
• Marketing, Brand & PR
• Higher and Tertiary Education experience;
• Human Resources
• Legal
• The Creative Industries.

High levels of personal and professional credibility and integrity are essential and the University is particularly interested in candidates who empathise with and can help advance its distinctive mission and purpose.

This is an exciting time to join the board of a dynamic and ambitious institution. If you have the skills and values the University are seeking it would be keen to hear from you.

For further information, including details of how to apply, please visit: www.odgers.com/94103

Applications are invited at your earliest convenience, and in any event by no later than close of business onFriday 15^th August at 5pm.