SRUC - VP Education Skills & Learner Success

The Role

Vice Principal – Education, Skills & Learner Success
Edinburgh
Permanent: 35 hours per week
Salary: £102,844 – £130,542

SRUC is seeking an exceptional, visionary leader for this newly created role. As our senior education leader and a member of the Executive Leadership Team, you will shape the future of education across SRUC, leading a transformational, learner-centred model that supports educational excellence, student success and our strategic ambitions.

You will develop a future-focused tertiary portfolio that responds to learner expectations, employer demand and opportunities in the natural economy. Combining strategic vision with strong delivery and change leadership, you will champion innovation in curriculum, teaching and assessment, including SRUC’s response to artificial intelligence and emerging technologies.

What you will lead

• Set and deliver SRUC’s education strategy and learner success agenda, driving institution-wide transformation.
• Develop a relevant, high-quality and sustainable education, skills and lifelong learning portfolio, including flexible and digitally enabled provision.
• Champion learning, teaching and assessment excellence, academic quality, governance and continuous improvement.
• Use data, performance measures and learner insight to improve continuation, progression, attainment, satisfaction and graduate outcomes.
• Build academic leadership and capability, fostering collaboration, innovation and a culture of excellence across the academic schools.
• Connect education with research, innovation, knowledge exchange and industry to strengthen employability, enterprise and work-integrated learning.
• Build strategic partnerships with employers, professional bodies, universities and other stakeholders, while managing resources to deliver sustainable growth.

About you

You are an inclusive and inspirational senior academic leader with a strong record of educational strategy, quality and student success in a complex tertiary, higher or further education environment. Educated to PhD level in a related field, with experience operating at senior professorial level and a recognised record of academic achievement, you bring:

• Experience leading innovative, flexible and digitally enabled curriculum and portfolio transformation.
• A track record of improving educational quality, learner outcomes and organisational performance.
• Credibility at executive and board level, with the ability to influence and unite diverse stakeholders.
• Strong strategic, analytical, financial and change leadership skills, alongside integrity, resilience and emotional intelligence.
• A commitment to inclusion, people development and collaboration.

Why join SRUC?

This is an opportunity to shape a distinctive tertiary enterprise university model, bringing education, research, innovation and industry together to create lasting benefits for learners, employers and Scotland’s natural economy.