SEMS School Manager

About the Role 

Applications are invited for the post of School Manager in the School of Engineering and Materials Science.

This post is a part of the School leadership team, providing strategic and operational direction for the School. Leading the School’s Professional Services team(s), the role holder will have a particular focus on ensuring the administrative infrastructure and services within the school are delivered effectively and respond appropriately to strategic and operational challenges and will play a central role in supporting and enabling the strategic aims of the School and Faculty more broadly.

This role is hybrid, but it is expected that the postholder will be working on site for three days a week. Interviews are expected to be held in the week beginning 9th December 2024. The role will be available from March 2025.

About You 

Candidates should have demonstrable management experience, ideally in a Higher Education environment, with experience of managing a diverse team of professional staff, as well as financial operational and strategic planning and implementation at a senior level.  

About the School 

The School of Engineering and Materials Science is one of five schools in the Faculty of Science and Engineering. The School is an exciting and dynamic environment, home to over 2500 taught students, 165 Postgraduate Research students, 140 teaching and research staff and 48 professional services colleagues. Our research is highly collaborative, working with colleagues across all three faculties and supported by partnerships with industry, NHS and other stakeholders. 

About Queen Mary 

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable. 

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers. 

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form. 

Benefits 

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus. 

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly. 

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