The University of Dundee aims to transform lives, locally and globally, and to shape the future by solving important real-world problems. We are home to a high-performance community with a global outlook, engaged with staff and students from over 140 countries around the world. We are one of the world’s Top 200 universities, hold a Gold Award in the Teaching Excellence Framework and are one of the UK’s top rated universities for student experience and graduate employment. We are also consistently referred to as one of Europe’s most innovative universities. Our ambitious goal is to become Scotland’s leading university. Our Strategy to 2022, launched in autumn 2017, sets us on a path to build on our considerable achievements.
The University is looking to appoint two individuals to its governing body, the University Court, to help it achieve its ambitious goals. The Court oversees the development of the University’s vision and strategic direction and ensures effective leadership and good governance, and this lay vacancy provides a rewarding opportunity to play a key role in building on the University’s recent successes and maximising the potential of future strategic development.
Ideal candidates will demonstrate excellent leadership and interpersonal skills, professional expertise, an understanding of the principles of good governance and a strong commitment to, and affinity for, higher education and the vision and values of the University. Applications are welcomed from individuals from all fields of expertise, with a particular interest in candidates with skills which broaden the overall skill set of the Court such: as finance; equality, diversity and inclusion; communications; marketing; estates; creative industries; legal; and organisational change.
The Court meets six times a year and members are also expected to serve on at least one Committee. Lay members are not remunerated but the University will meet reasonable costs incurred in carrying out the role including reimbursement for travel within the UK and care costs of dependants. The position is for four years in the first instance. Information on existing members is available from https://www.dundee.ac.uk/governance/governance/court/members/.
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University of Dundee
Nobel Prize winning poet and honorary graduate Seamus Heaney has described the University of Dundee as ‘having its head in the clouds and its feet firmly on the ground.’ The ability to be both aspirational and down-to earth and to blend ground-breaking intellectual achievement with practical applications, has given the University its distinctive character.
