Current opportunities

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer as the new HR Director, you will ensure that HR plays a proactive and pivotal role in the development and delivery of the university’s strategy. Contributing to the strategic leadership of the University as part of UET you will lead the focus on staff matters. Identifying and securing innovative initiatives and approaches to HR, you will continue to drive service effectiveness, business partnering and ongoing improvements.

As the new Director of People, reporting to the Chief People Officer, you will ensure excellent and progressive HR practices and approaches in support of our institutional strategy, and the development and implementation of our current People Strategy, as well as supporting the shaping of a new People strategy. As the nominated deputy for the Chief People Officer, you will have primary responsibility for employee relations (via the Business Partner Team), the University’s Occupational Health service, talent acquisition and associated compliance activities.

Reporting to the Registrar, you will bring expertise that will help us identify new opportunities that build our international profile and reputation and lead and motivate a team of directors responsible for marketing, student recruitment and admissions and the international office. That’s why we’re looking for someone with vision, energy, and a collaborative spirit—someone who can turn strategy into action and lead with both purpose and empathy.

With a new Vice Chancellor and an ambitious new institutional strategy to 2030 that will see us become one of the UK’s leading universities at the intersection of the technology, creative and business disciplines, this is an exciting time to join Ravensbourne.  As our Deputy Director, People and Culture, you will play a pivotal leadership role in ensuring our people practices and culture support delivery of the strategy and enable our staff community to flourish.

We are seeking a Director to lead a newly configured Directorate of External Relations which encompasses the critical functions that grow income and drive reputation and reach for the university, nationally and globally.