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About the Role

Provide strategic leadership for the Business School, prioritizing student experience and success. Lead and inspire a diverse academic community, ensuring high-quality delivery, strong academic outcomes, and sustainable growth. Operate in a fast-paced, regulated environment, using data to enhance performance and improve student metrics. As a senior leader, shape institutional strategy, lead change, and embed continuous improvement and accountability. This pivotal senior leadership role shapes academic excellence, drives performance, and ensures an outstanding student experience.

Responsibilities

Provide strategic direction and leadership for the Business School, aligning with institutional growth ambitions.
Translate strategy into deliverable operational plans across a broad programme portfolio.
Lead the School through growth, transformation, and organizational change.
Place student experience at the core of all strategic and operational decisions.
Lead the development of inclusive, high-impact teaching, learning, and assessment approaches for a widening participation student body.
Drive improvements in student engagement, retention, attainment, and progression.
Ensure teaching practices are innovative, applied, and aligned to employability outcomes.
Take accountability for School performance against KPIs, using data to inform decisions and interventions.
Establish a culture of data literacy and continuous improvement across academic teams.
Provide oversight of academic governance, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance.
Lead, develop, and inspire a large, diverse academic workforce, fostering an inclusive, high-performance culture.
Build leadership capability across Associate Deans and Course Directors.
Manage performance effectively, supporting staff development in a complex environment.
Build and maintain strategic partnerships with academic institutions, awarding bodies, and industry.
Represent the School and College externally to enhance profile and growth opportunities.

Requirements

Master’s degree or equivalent professional qualification in a relevant discipline.
Recognised teaching qualification.
Proven experience in senior academic leadership in higher education.
Strong expertise in data-driven performance management and strategic planning.
Understanding of pedagogy within a widening participation context.
Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Significant experience leading large, diverse academic teams within complex organizations.
Proven track record of delivering measurable improvements in academic performance and student outcomes.
Strong knowledge of UK higher education regulatory and quality frameworks.
Experience driving innovation in curriculum, teaching, and learning practices.
Right to work in the UK.

Skills

Data-driven performance management
Strategic planning
Pedagogy within a widening participation context
Leadership
Communication
Stakeholder management

Location

London, UK

Experience Level

Senior academic leadership experience in higher education
Significant experience leading large, diverse academic teams
Proven track record of delivering measurable improvements in academic performance and student outcomes
Senior leadership role

Education Level

Master’s degree or equivalent professional qualification in a relevant discipline
Recognised teaching qualification
Doctorate in a relevant discipline

About the Company

London College of Contemporary Art (LCCA) is a modern, student-centred institution committed to widening participation and empowering learners from diverse backgrounds to achieve their academic and professional ambitions.
As part of Global University Systems, a large, international education provider, LCCA is embedded within a global network that delivers high-quality, accessible education at scale.
LCCA's programmes are future-focused, combining applied learning with innovative, industry-relevant curricula and state-of-the-art delivery to equip graduates with skills for a rapidly evolving world.

Equal Opportunity

Committed to ensuring the workforce reflects the diversity of the student population, striving to increase representation across age, disability, gender identity and expression, religion, race, sex, sexual orientation, and socio-economic background.
Committed to providing adjustments throughout the recruitment process; contact the LCCA Talent Acquisition Team for support.