Dear Candidate Thank you for your interest in joining the University of Sussex as Director of Estates, Facilities and Commercial Services. The distinctive ethos with which Sussex was established over 60 years ago still animates our work today. From the start, Sussex challenged convention and fostered critical, and at times dissenting, thinking. Sussex set out to disrupt traditional ways of creating and organising knowledge, and in doing so, developed a distinctively progressive identity which fostered a strong sense of community and purpose. Now in our seventh decade, our early emphasis on innovation, interdisciplinarity, intellectual rigour, and internationalism continues to define Sussex. Our success as a world-leading university is built on these practices and is underpinned by the institutional values that we strive to enact – collaboration, courage, inclusion, integrity, and kindness – and by our foundational commitment to academic freedom and freedom of speech. The University has a beautiful and diverse campus estate located in Falmer, on the outskirts of Brighton & Hove. It is situated in rolling parkland in the South Downs National Park and has amongst its buildings a listed core heritage estate designed by Sir Basil Spence. Over the past two decades, Sussex has doubled in size in terms of activity, with the University accommodating this growth within its existing campus. The University has invested significantly across the campus, delivering new academic and student accommodation facilities, social space and upgrading critical infrastructure. The Director of Estates, Facilities and Commercial Services is responsible for providing strategic leadership and operational management for the University’s estate and all associated facilities management and
commercial services which underpins the University’s aim to have a world-class physical environment to support the delivery of its academic ambitions, and exceptional student, staff and visitor experience. This is a critical role that will support the realisation of our new strategy ‘Sussex 2035: Creating Progressive Futures’. We are seeking to appoint a candidate with extensive experience in estates and facilities leadership roles at a senior and strategic level and a strong commitment to, and knowledge of, addressing the challenges of environmental sustainability and climate adaptation. The successful candidate will have excellent portfolio-level leadership experience, as the role has a broad remit spanning masterplanning and capital development, property and space management, facilities management, environmental sustainability and commercial services (such as catering, hospitality, student accommodation and sport). I believe that the role of Director of Estates, Facilities and Commercial Services at Sussex will be both intellectually stimulating and highly rewarding, and I look forward to the new Director joining me, the senior team, and the whole Sussex community in realising our ambitions for this very special University.
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Professor Sasha Roseneil FAcSS PFHEA Vice-Chancellor and President
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