Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Target Resume Now
About the Role
Lead the design and delivery of programming for senior managers and specialists to build AI strategy, governance, and delivery capability. This unique appointment is for an academic with industry experience to lead the University’s AI Leadership courses within the Centre for Apprenticeships and the Innovation and Enterprise team.
Responsibilities
- Lead on the design and delivery of programming for senior managers and specialists within organisations to build AI strategy, governance, and delivery capability.
- Carry academic and operational responsibility for the university’s first three AI Leadership Apprenticeship Units: AI Strategy and Opportunity, AI Adoption, Procurement, and Governance, and AI Delivery and Organisational Transformation.
- Deliver units online, in person, or blended, including at employer venues and on campus.
- Explore and shape the wider development of the role over the first year in discussion with the line manager.
- Develop and scale additional custom, non-degree executive courses for partner-employer cohorts.
- Carry an affiliation to other units within the University depending on background and interests.
- Teach at employer venues as well as on campus.
Requirements
- Substantial industry or practitioner experience in AI, digital transformation, technology strategy, or a closely related field.
- A relevant undergraduate or postgraduate qualification (e.g. business, computer science, engineering, or a related discipline); an MBA or equivalent professional qualification is welcomed but not required.
- FHEA status, or equivalent, achieved or expected, is desirable.
- Expertise across AI strategy and organisational viability, AI adoption/procurement/governance, and AI-enabled delivery and transformation.
- Ability to design or adapt programmes for delivery across multiple formats without compromising learning outcomes or assessment integrity.
- Excellent ability to personally facilitate and hold the room with senior executive audiences, in-person and virtually.
- Experience with credential-bearing or competency-assessed programme design.
- Strong track record building and holding senior client/partner relationships across varying commercial models.
- Willingness and capacity to undertake continuous professional development in relation to institutionally strategic themes.
- Comfortable working within apprenticeship funding, compliance, and governance frameworks, or able to learn these quickly.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentation and facilitation skills, both face-to-face and online.
- Initiative and follow-through on ambiguous, fast-moving projects.
- Ability to build trusted, warm working relationships easily.
- Detail-oriented, quality-conscious approach to programme design, assessment, and compliance.
- Genuine, visible commitment to learners' outcomes and wellbeing.
- Existing network among AI practitioners, founders, or venture-backed operators is desirable.
- Familiarity with the London/UK AI policy landscape is desirable.
- Prior experience with degree apprenticeship, LLE-eligible, or Growth & Skills Levy-funded programme structures is desirable.
- Prior experience in a business school, university enterprise/innovation function, or venture-adjacent talent/education initiative is desirable.
- Interest in or exposure to discovery-led, cohort-based executive formats, or to quantum computing concepts is desirable.
- Must be able to demonstrate eligibility to work in the UK.
- Applications must include a covering letter of no more than one page that addresses the criteria for the role, and a full curriculum vitae.
Skills
- AI Strategy
- AI Governance
- AI Delivery
- Digital Transformation
- Technology Strategy
- Programme Design
- Executive Education
- Innovative Teaching
- Learning and Assessment
- UK Apprenticeships
- Supporting Diverse Learners
- AI Adoption
- AI Procurement
- AI Risk
- Organisational Transformation
- Credential-bearing Programme Design
- Skills Mapping
- Capstone Simulation
- Micro-credential Assessment
- Client/Partner Relationship Management
- Continuous Professional Development
- Apprenticeship Funding
- Apprenticeship Compliance
- Apprenticeship Governance
- Written Communication
- Verbal Communication
- Presentation Skills
- Facilitation Skills
- Project Management
- Relationship Building
- Quality Assurance
- Learner Wellbeing
- AI Practitioners Network
- UK AI Policy Landscape
- Degree Apprenticeship Structures
- LLE-eligible Programme Structures
- Growth & Skills Levy-funded Programme Structures
- Business School Operations
- University Enterprise/Innovation
- Venture-adjacent Talent/Education
- Discovery-led Executive Formats
- Quantum Computing Concepts
Location
- London, Devon House (St Katharine's Dock)
- On campus in London
- Employer venues (e.g. corporate headquarters)
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
- Permanent
Experience Level
- Assistant Professor
- Associate Professor
Education Level
- Relevant undergraduate or postgraduate qualification
- MBA or equivalent professional qualification (welcomed but not required)
- FHEA status, or equivalent (achieved or expected, desirable)
Salary/Compensations
- Assistant Professor (G8) £49,469 to £57,316, progressing to £60,795 per annum once in post
- Associate Professor (G9) £59,030 to £72,555, progressing to £79,276 per annum once in post
Benefits
- Flexible working
- Parental leave opportunities
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Optional private medical insurance
- Season ticket loans
- Cycle to work scheme
- 25 days annual leave, plus 8 bank holidays and winter break holidays
- Access to personalised Continuous Professional Development (CPD) plans and opportunities
- Eye test reimbursement
- Access to deals and discounts for food & shopping in the local area
About the Company
- Northeastern University London (NU London) is a prestigious higher education institution based in the heart of London and is part of Northeastern University’s global campus network.
- Overlooking the River Thames near Tower Bridge, NU London offers academically challenging educational programmes designed to inspire innovative thinking, encourage interdisciplinary study, and provide global experiences.
- The bright and modern campus offers award winning, contemporary facilities for students and staff including state of the art audio visual technology in its teaching and meeting spaces.
- Inspired by excellence, infused with an energy of ideas and ability in motion, at NU London, being a part of our staff is to be a part of a collective of entrepreneurs and educators, builders and thinkers.
- NU London is growing quickly, offering opportunity and growth for our staff.
- The Centre for Apprenticeships is the home of the University’s award-winning apprenticeships and work-related learning programmes and promotes excellence in work-based learning, online teaching, and partner-engaged instructional design.
- Apprenticeships represent a gold-standard of experiential education, combining academically rigorous HE programmes with the real-world tasks and challenges that learners encounter daily in the workplace.
- This role also works closely with the Centre for Quantum & AI Workforce Transformation, a new initiative leveraging the University’s globally networked assets — experiential education, network science and intelligent networked systems research, and a live entrepreneurial ecosystem anchored by a £100m Quantum Fund — to meet emerging Quantum & AI workforce transformation needs.
- The university works across both the Centre for Apprenticeships and the wider Innovation & Enterprise ecosystem which includes a dynamic Start-up Hub and £100 million Quantum Fund, as well as benefiting from Northeastern’s global network of experiential education and impactful research and nearly 4,000 employer partners.
Equal Opportunity
- Applications are welcome from all sections of the community and will be judged on merit alone.
- We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
- We welcome applications from all underrepresented groups, including the Global Majority.