Academic Dean

Cliff College is looking to appoint a enthusiastic Academic Dean to work alongside the Principal and to provide leadership and management of the academic life of the College.

Over the past few years, the College has designed an innovative suite of new taught programmes (Foundations, BA Theology and Mission, and MA Theology and Mission) which are validated by the University of Manchester.

These programmes exemplify the College’s learning strategy, which is to serve the Church in God’s mission by equipping disciples and leaders who are theologically and biblically literate, and missionally wise.

The academic delivery of the College is thoroughly hybrid, making creative use of online learning to reach well beyond our residential community and make the greatest impact for the Kingdom of God. The Academic Dean will play a crucial role in delivering and developing this vision, superintending the whole range of the College’s programmes – short training opportunities through to doctoral research – in all their modes – on site, online, and dual-delivery.

In addition to curating a strong academic team to teach and administer the work, the Academic Dean will be responsible for promoting academic enhancements, creating an excellent student experience with equality of opportunity, and ensuring quality and standards for both internal and external review.

The successful candidate will exemplify the College’s ethos, and be ideally energetic, authentic and experienced advocate for the transformational impact of theological and missional learning.

Job Details

Location: Cliff College, Calver, Hope Valley S32 3XG

Application Deadline: Noon, Friday 21 March 2025

Interviews: 2-3 April 2025, on campus at Cliff College

A full application pack about this opportunity at Cliff College is available to download here

About Cliff College

Cliff College is an evangelical learning community which is rooted in God’s Word and Spirit, for the purpose of equipping God’s people for practical ministry and cutting-edge missional engagement.

Cliff College provides theological education and training with a particular focus on mission and evangelism. Historically, Cliff was a Methodist training college for those wishing to engage in mission and evangelism. Today our student body is both lay and ordained and from a range of denominational backgrounds. We offer full-time and part-time undergraduate and postgraduate courses with on campus and online learning options, as well as a programme of training and development courses and retreats.

Alongside our courses we have a busy Conference Centre, a gap year focused on mission and evangelism, thriving international work delivering training and support to Christians throughout the world and an exciting annual Festival of word and music.

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