Higher Education providers require leaders who combine their passion for the power of education to transform lives with an incredibly wide range of skills including strategy development, financial acumen, values driven culture change, civic and international engagement, political nous and a deep understanding of the fast-paced nature of change, challenge and demand.

Every member of our specialist higher education executive search team is relentless in their commitment to placing and developing genuinely exceptional academic and professional services leaders and non-executives, who exemplify innovation, collegiality and transformation.

The unrivalled insight into educational leadership from our own experience as leaders and managers in education, our connection to national policymakers combined with access to diverse leaders looking for their next senior executive or non-executive role, affords us the confidence to represent our clients authentically in the market.

Our end-to-end services include recruiting permanent and interim leaders, top team and talent pipeline development programmes and board effectiveness reviews.

We are trusted to deliver quality and diverse shortlists with the leadership experience and values our clients are seeking, to fill the most senior permanent and interim education leadership roles across universities and HE providers.

Latest Vacancies

Senior Project Manager

Kingston University

Kingston upon Thames - Penhryn Road Campus

Headteacher, Pathways School

Pathways Education

Surrey

IT Director

Goldsmiths, University of London

New Cross, London (2-3 days per week on campus)

Assistant Director, RSSD (Head of Research Performance & Systems Innovation)

University of Birmingham

Birmingham

Chief Governance Officer & University Secretary

University of Aberdeen

Aberdeen (Typically, 4 days per week on campus)

Director/Dean of the Lincoln International Business School

University of Lincoln

Lincoln Campuses

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Director of People

Windsor Academy Trust

West Midlands

Commercial Director

Learna Ltd

Cardiff with flexible hybrid working

Head of School of Sciences

Bath Spa University

Bath

Head of Operations (Materials & Logistics)

AQA

Hybrid working, 2 days a week in Milton Keynes or Manchester

Head of School, Design & Architecture

University of Lincoln

Lincoln

Vice-Principal Student Recruitment and Growth

University of the Highlands and Islands

Inverness, Scotland, minimum 4 days a week on campus

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