Welcome
Thank you for taking an interest in this key leadership role. We are seeking an outstanding candidate who can bring their experience, skills and attributes to the University of Chester and play a leading role on our Strategic Executive Team. Keen to take the optimisation of our estate to the next level you will have worked in a large, complex organisation and had diverse responsibilities throughout your career. You will take our multi-site operation in your stride whilst understanding how to improve users’ experience at each location. Your leadership of internal teams is effective because you understand how to motivate and challenge people whilst championing values of equity and inclusion. The improvement of processes and modernisation of systems will be very familiar and you will enjoy the challenge of working across functions and services. You will have a deep knowledge of health, safety and legal obligations and know how to improve compliance monitoring systems, business continuity planning; liaising effectively with external stakeholders in this regard. This is a very interesting time to be joining the University as we are working on changes to our teaching model through a new academic framework. How we use our estate will be key to its success. In parallel, we are reviewing professional services across the institution to ensure we are making the most of technological and process enhancements and you will be expected to liaise closely with our Learning & Information Systems team as they implement our Digital Chester strategy. Our three faculties each have a strong mission to deliver outstanding academic activities
in specialist facilities as varied as nursing simulation suites, virtual reality caves, art & design studios, natural science laboratories and trading rooms. They are supported by access to a wide range of learning and study spaces with current priority investments for Chester Medical School and the School of Education. Research and Knowledge Exchange Institutes also require access to high quality spaces and you will play a leadership role in enabling them to succeed. Across the region, our University centres focus on professional courses in health, social work, education and business and represent a great opportunity to work closely with stakeholders in each of these areas. Importantly, you will be genuinely motivated by a desire to support the University of Chester in its education, research and knowledge exchange activities and will recognise the central importance we place on students through the Citizen Student Strategy. The challenge facing you will be how to optimise the use of an eclectic estate with a wide range of buildings and uses. Sustainability improvements will play an important part in this, guided by relevant frameworks such as BREEAM and the Well Standard. In summary, we need you to care about detail, yet be able to see and manage the estate in its entirety. The proof of this will be how you lead the finalisation of our Estate Development Document 2025-2030, take ownership of it and successfully navigate it through our University Council later this year. If this sounds like a challenge you would relish I look forward to receiving your application.
Professor Eunice Simmons Vice Chancellor, University of Chester
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