Head of the Department of Life Sciences

Job Description

Head of the Department of Life SciencesFaculty of Natural SciencesImperial College LondonThe Faculty of Natural Sciences wishes to appoint an outstanding individual to lead the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College London. The Department embraces the full breadth of modern life sciences activity, with a dual location on the main South Kensington campus in London and the Silwood Park postgraduate campus at Ascot ( life-sciences/). It was the top ranked university for research intensity in Biological Sciences in the UK in the last Research Excellence Framework exercise (REF2014), and also ranked top equal in terms of the environment it provides, with a 100% World Leading assessment. The Department teaches two major undergraduate degrees in Biological Sciences, and Biochemistry/Biotechnology, and a wide range of Masters-level courses aligned to our strengths.We are seeking to appoint a successor to the current Head of Department, Professor Anne Dell CBE FRS FMedSci, whose tenure comes to an end on December 31 2021. As Head of the Department, you will provide strategic vision, direction and leadership to the Department, ensuring that our research and teaching programmes remain World-Leading, and that appropriate plans, management and governance structures and practices are in place. You will also ensure the operational sustainability of the Department through income generation and resource management, as well as formulate and implement academic strategy and plans in conjunction with the Dean and Faculty management team.You should have an international reputation in their field of research, evidence of academic leadership and the ability to work collaboratively with members of a multi-disciplinary team and senior colleagues across the College. Appointment to the Headship will be for five years, in line with the Colleges term of office for senior roles, with an open-ended academic appointment.Informal inquiries about the post can be directed to Professor Richard Craster, Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, r.craster@ imperial.ac.ukFor assistance in the recruitment process and how to apply, please contact: Maria Monteiro, m.monteiro@imperial.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) To apply, please visit our website via the button below.Closing date: 12 July 2021 (Midnight BST)We are committed to equality of opportunity, to eliminating discrimination and to creating an inclusive working environment for all. We therefore encourage candidates to apply irrespective of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender identity, sex, or sexual orientation. We are an Athena SWAN Silver Award winner, a Disability Confident Leader and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.The College is a proud signatory to the San-Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which means that in hiring and promotion decisions, we evaluate applicants on the quality of their work, not the journal impact factor where it is published. For more information, see. research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-evaluation/The College believes that the use of animals in research is vital to improve human and animal health and welfare. Animals may only be used in research programmes where their use is shown to be necessary for developing new treatments and making medical advances. Imperial is committed to ensuring that, in cases where this research is deemed essential, all animals in the Colleges care are treated with full respect, and that all staff involved with this work show due consideration at every level.