WELCOME FROM THE REGISTRAR & SECRETARY BRYN MORRIS
Dear Applicant
Thank you for your interest in the Director of Estate Management post and please find below further information on the opportunity which comes at a very exciting time in our development. Our Director of Estate Management leads a team of professionals who are committed to the built and natural environment making a tangible impact on delivering our ambitious University Strategy. Right from the start, when the University was established in 1964, we have understood that the way people and places interact helps to shape the character of a University. The vision of the initial Essex master-plan, with its fierce architectural language, helped shape our identity and values http://issuu.com/uniofessex/docs/gallery_guide_22163.
The Director of Estate Management will carry the lead responsibility for ensuring that our estate continues to do so.
Our University Strategic Plan commits the University to continued growth in student numbers at the same time as enhancing our standing within the sector and delivering a transformational experience for our students. These are bold ambitions that will require equally bold ideas and execution in the further development of our campuses and facilities. Celebrating our 50th anniversary in 2014-15, the University of Essex was ranked 19th in the Research Excellence Framework in 2014 and 2nd in the 2015 NSS for student satisfaction in the Times Good University Guide. Confirming our global reputation, the University was ranked 22nd in the Times Higher Education Top 100 universities under 50 years old in 2014 and is 31st in the world for our international outlook. The University has an annual turnover of £200m and 12,500 students at our campuses in Colchester, Southend and Loughton. Over the last five years we have invested £200m to provide a top-class student experience with state of the art facilities. Our Silberrad Student Centre and new building that is home to Essex Business School both opened this summer, following the opening of a new teaching centre, 650 bed student village and our science and research business park ‘Knowledge Gateway’. Our Strategic Plan sets our ambition to be acknowledged nationally and internationally as a leading research-intensive university. Currently ranked 35th in the Times Good University Guide, by 2019 we want to be firmly in the top 25 of UK universities and all of our subjects in the top 20% of their discipline within the UK. Our aim is to grow the size of the University by 50% by 2019. We are on target to meet our goals, with full time undergraduate acceptances having grown by 20.4% between 2013 and 2014 – the second largest increase in the UK – and applications up 13% for entry in October 2015.
Further details about Bryn can be viewed at http://www.essex.ac.uk/registrar/brynmorris.aspx
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