Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education and Student Success)

University of Bradford; Bradford; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Bradford invites applications for a senior executive post responsible for educational transformation, reporting to the Vice-Chancellor and sitting on the University Executive Team. The role leads Strategic Priority 1 (Students First) and shapes the academic portfolio to raise student success and satisfaction.

You will drive data-informed improvements, influence across faculties and professional services, and lead the Teaching Excellence team to deliver measurable improvements in

Qualifications

• Senior academic leadership in a large and complex organisation.
• Track record of educational transformation.
• Evidence of improving student experience and educational performance.
• Led significant educational change, brought colleagues with them and delivered tangible results.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of the majority of Strategic Priority 1 (Students First).
• Lead a step-change in student success, experience and educational performance, with a focus on NSS outcomes and the TEF Gold ambition.
• Reshape the educational offer into a coherent, distinctive, high-performing model covering continuation, completion, satisfaction, belonging, employability and graduate outcomes.
• Turn data, insight and student evidence into measurable improvement using leading and lagging indicators, intervening where performance falls short.
• Lead the strategic development of the academic portfolio, balancing student demand, quality, professional relevance and financial sustainability.
• Identify innovation in digital, flexible and non-traditional modes of education.
• Set strategic direction across faculties and professional services, engage academic communities and strengthen accountability for delivery.
• Lead academic quality, standards, educational assurance and regulatory confidence.
• Provide strategic leadership for teaching and learning and the Teaching Excellence team.
• Contribute to institution-wide leadership as a member of the University Executive Team and to delivery of Strategy 2035.

Job description

This is a senior executive post at the University of Bradford, reporting to the Vice-Chancellor and sitting on the University Executive Team. The job is to lead educational transformation, with main responsibility for Strategic Priority 1 (Students First), raising student success and satisfaction and developing the academic portfolio. The role works mainly through influence across faculties and professional services, and includes leading the Teaching Excellence team. Candidates need a record of senior academic leadership and clear evidence of improving student experience and educational performance.

What the job involves

• Lead delivery of the majority of Strategic Priority 1 (Students First)
• Lead a step-change in student success, experience and educational performance, with a focus on NSS outcomes and the TEF Gold ambition
• Reshape the educational offer into a coherent, distinctive, high-performing model covering continuation, completion, satisfaction, belonging, employability and graduate outcomes
• Turn data, insight and student evidence into measurable improvement using leading and lagging indicators, intervening where performance falls short
• Lead the strategic development of the academic portfolio, balancing student demand, quality, professional relevance and financial sustainability
• Identify innovation in digital, flexible and non-traditional modes of education
• Set strategic direction across faculties and professional services, engage academic communities and strengthen accountability for delivery
• Lead academic quality, standards, educational assurance and regulatory confidence
• Provide strategic leadership for teaching and learning and the Teaching Excellence team
• Contribute to institution-wide leadership as a member of the University Executive Team and to delivery of Strategy 2035

Experience

• Senior academic leadership in a large and complex organisation
• Track record of educational transformation
• Evidence of improving student experience and educational performance
• Led significant educational change, brought colleagues with them and delivered tangible results

Skills & knowledge

• Academic credibility combined with strategic ambition
• Commercial awareness alongside academic judgement
• Confidence to make difficult choices
• Leading through influence across faculties and professional services

Nice to have

• Significant improvement in NSS, TEF or comparable measures
• Experience of reshaping educational provision in response to changing student needs and institutional priorities