Director - Durham Online
- Employer
- Durham University
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Salary
- Competitive Salary
- Date posted
- Jun 1, 2021
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- Position Type
- Faculty Positions, Business & Management, Management
- Employment Level
- Non-Tenured Track
- Employment Type
- Full Time
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Durham University delivers a
world-renowned education underpinned by its distinctive collegiate
student experience. The pandemic has accelerated the pace of
digital transformation in higher education, with learners seeking
and finding new ways to develop knowledge, skills and competencies.
To this end, building on existing education content and expertise,
Durham University is establishing a new coordinated approach to the
development, design and delivery of online programmes encompassing
degrees, short courses, microcredentials and CPD.
As a catalyst and enabler for new
digital education thinking, Durham Online will ensure that the
Durham becomes a leader in high quality, premium brand digital
learning. Working in close collaboration across the University, the
founding director will establish Durham Online, helping to devise
its strategic direction and implementing its exciting and ambitious
agenda.
Reporting to the Vice-Provost
(Education), the Director will have the credibility and authority
to operate at board level, the emotional intelligence to forge
strong working relations with academics and senior leaders across
the University and the commercial business development skills to
engage expertise from external partners and service providers, as
well as form partnerships with professional bodies and corporate
clients.
Key to successful growth will be
working in an integrative and facilitative manner and building
partnerships across the University. Durham Online is akin to a
start-up within a large complex organisation, and as such, the
initial focus will be to ensure that existing online education
endeavours and plans are supported and fully leveraged, whilst
catalysing increased activity and support across the University to
establish a high-quality new business that enables Durham to
deliver its strategic goals.
The Director of Durham Online will
be highly collaborative with the tenacity, sensitivity and
strategic vision to establish a new value-creating unit within the
University. Ideally, candidates will have gained experience of
establishing something comparable and will also demonstrate
requisite humility in recognising that Durham's culture will
require adaptation of previously tested ideas. Candidates will have
gained P&L responsibility, with accountability for people and
resources and be able to draw on demonstrable success in building
and scaling new income streams from digital education products and
services.
Seeking an entrepreneurial business
builder, candidates could come from a wide range of backgrounds,
although experience and expertise in online learning will be an
advantage. Senior managers from the digital economy, particularly
those selling high value services to corporate clients as well as
universities could also offer relevant skills and expertise, as
could those from other spheres of EdTech innovation such as
bootcamps, pathways and MOOCs. Alongside core technical skills and
valuable experience gained in relevant settings, this is as much
about your collaborative leadership approach and attitude to
facilitating change and building long term sustainable businesses.
We would therefore encourage an initial conversation to explore the
opportunity further, and to enable a nuanced discussion about
skills match and cultural alignment.
We are committed to being a fully
inclusive and diverse community. We will actively seek and
encourage applications for this role from the broadest range of
society, including all underrepresented groups with particular
emphasis on BAME candidates, who are under-represented in senior
roles in the University.
Durham University are working in
partnership with Odgers Berndtson to recruit to this post. For
further information and details of how to apply, please click
HERE.
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