City of Glasgow College

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The City of Glasgow College is offering high calibre candidates two rare opportunities to join our worldclass Executive Leadership Team to flourish as either the Vice Principal Student Experience or as the Vice Principal Corporate Development and Innovation.

City of Glasgow College is Scotland’s largest technological &professional education and Higher skills college. Based at our award-winning, twin-site Super Campus in the heart of Glasgow, you will have the privilege to transform the life chances and livelihoods of up to 40,000 students each year, from Glasgow, Scotland, UK and beyond.

At City of Glasgow College, our superb staff team known as Team City is bonded by our shared purpose to “Let Learning Flourish.” We teach to excellence rather than competence standards and we have centres of specialisation that are consistently worldclass.   Our City Way of being Inspirational from when you first enter our state-of-the-art super campus with 1,000 learning spaces (many are to cutting edge industry standard) to our talented staff delivering Excellence in the student experience whilst constantly Innovating from one year to the next. This City Way defines our approach to everything we do together, from teaching and learning to leadership and strategy.

In 2024, we achieved the highest accolade in the UK tertiary education sector, gaining the Queen’s Anniversary Prize, for our life saving applied research into oxygen depletion onboard ships. We are also very proud of our 7 Diamond EFQM Global ranking. Indeed, as Scotland’s Super College, we are the nearest the UK has to a next generation Polytechnic. We are also proud of our reputation for diversity, inclusion, social justice and social mobility.

To help us build on this considerable innovative success, we’re now seeking two exceptional and inspirational leaders, to join our Executive Leadership Team. These Vice Principal roles will report directly to the Principal for the successful realisation of the Board’s Purpose, Way, Values and the Strategic priorities.

City of Glasgow College is a world renowned, world-class institution:

• We offer over 1,800 courses across a diverse range of disciplines, from Maritime & STEM and Built Environment, Culinary Arts to Creative Industries to Education & Humanities to Trade Union studies and from Shipping to Shipbuilding, to list but a few.
• Building careers and Enriching lives for up to 40,000 students to thrive annually. Each year 8000 technical and professional graduates leave us for employment or advanced study.
• Our global reach spans 26 countries, 6 continents, with up to 4,000 international students coming to study with us each year and we have the most cosmopolitan student body in the Scottish College sector with 150 nationalities.

Both Vice Principal roles are full-time permanent positions with a salary of £101,472 to £110,100 per annum.