VACANCY AT ROFFEY PARK INSTITUTE: Head of Faculty – Salary: £75k

Remote working with some travel to Roffey Park Sites

Become part of Roffey Park Institute’s story and make a difference in the world of work by enabling people to flourish! If you have a passion for developing people and organisations, you are an energetic and engaging leader with extensive experience in designing and delivering high-impact learning solutions, Roffey Park Institute want to hear from you!

Details

Purpose of Role:
The overarching purpose of the role of Head of Faculty is to develop, nurture and lead a high-performing Faculty team of Programme Directors who are focussed on, and committed to, exceptional client experience.

Reporting to the Director of Operations, the Head of Faculty is globally accountable for high-quality programming and resource allocation, for delivery across all areas of Roffey Park Institute including:

  • OD Consultancy
  • Open Programmes
  • Tailored Delivery

Key Relationships:

Working closely with the Head of Client Programme Management and the Head of Research, Thought Leadership and Academic Delivery, the Head of Faculty will work collaboratively to develop a strong team, supporting the integrated delivery of RPI Operations. Other relationships include working with the Director of Sales & Marketing and Director of Business Intelligence & Technology.

Key Responsibilities:

Managing and Nurturing the Faculty:

  • Setting the KPIs for the Faculty team with the Director of Operations, in line with the organisations strategy
  • Developing collective and individual goals for the team
  • Fostering a collaborative culture
  • Providing honest feedback and agreeing development plans for team members.

Allocating resources to programmes and business development:

  • Working with the Sales and Marketing team to identify business development opportunities, ensuring faculty resources for proposal development are provided.
  • Working with the Head of Client Programme Management to determine resource demand and support the allocation of faculty and associate resources to programmes
  • Managing the workload of Faculty to ensure the optimal performance and wellbeing of the team.

Fostering the Associate community:

  • Identifying the gaps within our Associate pool and taking action to address their concerns
  • Ensuring an active, vibrant and engaging Associate pool that is relevant and current, to meet our client’s needs
  • Ensuring robust Associate on-boarding and off-boarding processes are in place, arranging regular meetings of the Nominations Committee to consider new Associates

Leading by example in your own area of specialism:

  • Having a broad knowledge across all delivery areas to provide support and guidance to the team
  • Actively delivering programmes to maintain current practice
  • Thought leadership and learning:
  • Encouraging and participating in events and activities that profile RPI’s thought leadership
  • Fostering a learning culture across the Faculty and Associate pools through the development of communities of practice and associated learning events.

Benefits

Life Insurance
Private Medical Insurance
36 days annual leave
Annualised Hours

About you:

As an energetic and engaging individual, you will have significant experience in team management and leadership. A credible and influential communicator with extensive experience of designing and delivering creative and impactful development solutions, you are able to analyse complex problems and think systemically.

With excellent project management skills, technology proficiency and quality orientation, you are resilient and able to reflect self critically.

Ideally, with a Masters qualification in a relevant discipline and a coaching qualification, you can demonstrate your practical experience in Organisational Design and Development, Human Resources, People Management or Learning & Development

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 10th February 2023