Associate Head of School, Law and Society

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About the role

The Associate Head of School provides operational and academic leadership within assigned subject disciplines, supporting the Head of School in delivering key strategic and educational objectives. This role focuses on enhancing teaching quality, student experience, and staff development while ensuring compliance with accreditation and university policies. The position also contributes to research and external engagement but remains primarily responsible for supporting, rather than leading, school wide initiatives.

The post holder will be provided with 0.6 FTE for leadership duties and for the remainder of their time, will be required to contribute proportionally to education, research and practice activity in line with the workload planning guidance in force at that time.

About the department

The Bournemouth University Business School is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) - an accreditation held by fewer than 6% of the world's business schools.
We keep ourselves at the cutting edge of business through continuous involvement in education, research and professional practice to help create the entrepreneurs of the future and to bring humanity to business. We're home to a team of dedicated, research-active staff spread across four different departments and encourage cross-collaborative working between our own departments and with other faculties.

About us

Bournemouth University's vision is worldwide recognition as a leading university for inspiring learning, advancing knowledge and enriching society through the fusion of education, research and practice. Our highly skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the globe, who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives and experiences that help to build our global learning community.

BU values and is committed to an inclusive working environment. We seek a diverse community through attracting, developing and retaining staff from different backgrounds to contribute to inspirational learning, advancing knowledge and enriching society. To support and enable our staff to achieve a balance between work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.

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