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Head of Business

Overview

The University of Southampton, in partnership with Oxford International Education Group (OIEG), is launching its first international campus in India, located in Gurgaon, Delhi. This initiative is a response to India's New Education Policy and represents a significant investment in transnational education. The new campus aims to provide Indian students with the opportunity to earn a globally recognised degree without leaving the country.

Job Purpose

The Head of the Business is an important appointment for the University of Southampton Delhi. The role holder will be responsible for ensuring that the academic activity within Business delivers the University’s ‘Triple Helix’ Strategy, ensuring excellence in education, research and knowledge exchange and enterprise.

The role holder will provide high-level academic leadership in the delivery of undergraduate and postgraduate education, ensuring that the quality of education delivered is equivalent to that offered in the UK. In collaboration with the Southampton Business School, they will be responsible for recruiting and establishing the very best cohort of staff to deliver degree programmes at University of Southampton Delhi. They will lead the subject area’s academic plan and vision and ensure a high-quality student experience. They will also personally contribute to the delivery of education, modelling high standards of educational delivery.

They will, once the educational activity is embedded and successful, lead research activities in line with the campus’s research plans, ensuring strategically relevant and high-quality research activity. In doing so, they will ensure that we sustain our international reputation for research by publishing peer-reviewed research in high-quality conferences and journals. They will plan and develop research independently, in collaboration with colleagues in Delhi, UK, and Malaysia, and promote and support research led by colleagues at University of Southampton Delhi.

They will be a key member of the campus’s leadership team and undertake relevant leadership, management, and engagement activities, ensuring a culture of belonging, inclusion, diversity and equity in the subject area. They will embed collegiality and demonstrate this through ensuring the ‘Southampton Behaviors’ are modelled and will work with colleagues to embed them as a way of working within the campus.

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Job Details
Section
India Campus
Location:
Delhi Campus, India
Salary
Competitive
Full Time Permanent
Closing Date:
Monday 10 February 2025
Reference
2990125IC
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