Chief Strategy Officer

Area

VCO Executive Office

Location

University Park

Salary

Competitive Salary

Closing Date

Monday 10 February 2025

Reference

REGCSO

We are seeking a visionary leader to take on the role of Interim Chief Strategy Officer (CSO). This is an excellent opportunity to drive institutional transformation and shape the future of one of the UK’s leading universities. This post will be initially for a 9 month period.

As CSO, you will provide strategic leadership across External Relations, the Campaign and Alumni Office, Planning, Performance and Strategic Change, ensuring alignment with the University’s overarching goals. You will play a key role in enabling the University Executive Board (UEB) to deliver on the institution’s ambitious vision.

This role is critical as we navigate our transformational change programme, Future Nottingham. Your role will be pivotal in aligning strategic initiatives, ensuring resources support our institutional strengths and embedding a culture of collaboration and inclusivity across the university.

Your Key Priorities

• Working with UEB colleagues to ensure alignment of resources behind identified and prioritised institutional strengths.
• Ensuring strategic planning supports delivery across the university, particularly overseeing the integrated approach to student number target-setting, financial planning, and business planning.
• Working closely with Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Chief Operating Officer to lead the University’s annual planning and resourcing process and maintain strategic alignment.
• Ensure alignment of institutional strategies, particularly Education and Student Experience, Research and Knowledge Exchange, Global and Civic are met. Additionally, review support structures to enhance effective delivery and ensure the Future Nottingham programme aligns with the institution’s long term vision.
• Establish the future state of areas under their remit through Future Nottingham.

You are a strategic leader with proven success in strategy development and implementation delivered in a complex organisation. As a key member of the University Executive Board, you will be a highly credible individual who values collaboration and works effectively with both internal and external partners. As a strategic leader, you will ensure that the university’s values, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is emphasised in all aspects of your work.

The university values diverse talent and understands that we all have different needs to allow us to reach our full potential. At university, we offer a variety of benefits, both personal and professional to help support you as a valued member of the institution. To find out more, visit our benefits website.

Further Details

Our university is a supportive, inclusive, caring and positive community. We welcome those of different cultures, ethnicities and beliefs – indeed this very diversity is vital to our success, it is fundamental to our values and enriches life on campus. Learn more about the university commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.

We are delighted to share that we are the first university to have achieved Athena Swan Gold Award.

We want you to succeed in our recruitment process and have published Candidate Guidance for you to access information and support on application and interview process.

We welcome applications from UK, Europe, and from across the globe and we want to make your transition to living in the UK as smooth as possible. Visit the Moving to Nottingham page to find out more.

Your application will be considered on an equal basis, subject to the relevant permission to work in the UK as set out by UK Visas & Immigration.

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