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Shape our success Appointment of Chief Financial Officer The University of Nottingham Appointment of Chief Financial Officer 2 Contents Foreword from the Vice-Chancellor 3 Executive summary 4 About The University of Nottingham 5 Global Strategy 2020 10 Life in Nottingham 12 Chief Financial Officer: The role 14 Appointment process and how to apply 16 The University of Nottingham Appointment of Chief Financial Officer 3 - Foreword from the Vice-Chancellor Universities are places of transformation. We achieve this through enriching our students, creating knowledge and using both to change the world around us. That is what makes universities exciting and invigorating places to be. Nottingham is a comprehensive, research-intensive, The first phase of a major project in Portland Building – campus-based university, with a unique global reach through the home of our Students’ Union – saw the ground floor our campuses in Malaysia and China; our instincts are remodelled and refurbished to offer better, newer facilities to collaborative and we have a giving culture. Consistently the student body. Work is well advanced on the David Ross ranked in the global top 100 universities, The University Sports Village on University Park, a £40 million complex of Nottingham is a wonderful place to work, and I feel very which will help us increase participation in sports at all levels. privileged to be its leader. I work with an exceptional team Our academic endeavour is underpinned by our committed of colleagues who are committed to making a distinctive professional service departments. Supporting over 44,500 contribution to the lives of students and staff, as well as for students and 8,000 staff, they are critical to the continued society as a whole. development and growth of the institution. In research Nottingham continues to excel. The 2014 We are looking for a committed and highly skilled Chief Research Excellence Framework (REF) found that more than Financial Officer to lead the finance function, research 97 per cent of our research was recognised internationally support, and business support, and work collaboratively as a and placed us 8th in the UK by research power, a measure member of the University Executive Board to advise and which takes into account both the quality of research and inform strategy and operations across the institution. Senior number of research active staff. This was a huge officers of the University are fully supported by me, the achievement and a powerful confirmation of Nottingham as a governing body and the whole of the University Executive leading global research-intensive university. Underpinning Board, and new colleagues will receive all the assistance this excellence is investment, and 2015 saw us reach new needed to ensure that they are successful in their roles. record funding levels with research awards of £186 million – the highest level we have ever received. Thank you for taking the time to consider this opportunity at The University of Nottingham. If you feel that you have We also continue to invest in a high-quality student the experience, skills and drive that we are looking for, experience. The expansion of our George Green Library into I look forward to your application. the new Engineering and Science Library has doubled the facility in size and provided a major increase in student study spaces and workrooms. Professor Sir David Greenaway Vice-Chancellor The University of Nottingham Appointment of Chief Financial Officer 4 Executive summary The University of Nottingham is a truly global University, ranked consistently among the very best institutions in the world. Established upon an exceptional platform in education, research and industrial engagement in the UK, the University has also built highly successful campuses in Malaysia and China. Together, these combine to represent an extraordinary model of a university able to make a distinctive contribution to the lives of students and staff, as well as for society as a whole. In 1928, while opening the Trent Building and University Park, This success means we can push on, reach higher and go Sir Jesse Boot wrote that: further, in line with the aspirations laid down in the Global Strategy 2020 and we are confident we can deliver the “…in each succeeding age the University will spread the ambition set out in the Strategy for the next five years. light of learning and knowledge and will bind science and industry in the unity that is so essential for the prosperity In 2015, we also undertook a comprehensive review of senior of the nation and the welfare of our fellow citizens.” management arrangements to ensure we have appropriate resource in place to meet the University’s needs, to ensure That vision still has currency. It speaks to ambition, we have accountability, and to improve the connectivity engagement, partnership, civic responsibility and longevity between ‘the centre’ and schools/professional services. and the values on which it is built remain at the heart of Following the confirmation of this talented and dedicated the University. team, the University is invigorated and set to continue its While our core values remain the same, almost 90 years of already successful path of development and growth. As a globalisation and technological developments make the world member of the University Executive Board, the appointed a different place. Following a period of analysis, reflection and candidate will play a fundamental role in Nottingham’s extensive consultation, we committed to a new strategic plan institutional leadership and the execution of the Strategy, ‘Global Strategy 2020’, an ambitious agenda setting the road as well as representing the University externally, developing map for our next period of development. Nottingham’s profile both nationally and internationally. The University is proud of its long term financial stability, The ideal candidate will be a proven leader, have strong but in 2015, the University also celebrated the success of communication skills and be comfortable operating across Impact: The Nottingham Campaign, the institution’s biggest all levels of the University. Candidates will demonstrate ever fundraising campaign, reaching its goal of raising intellectual ability and an inspirational and innovative £150 million one year ahead of target. working style. The University of Nottingham Appointment of Chief Financial Officer 5 About The University of Nottingham Described by The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2016 as “the nearest Britain has to a truly global university,” The University of Nottingham has award winning campuses in the UK, Malaysia and China, and is placed in the top 70 in the QS World University Rankings, ranking it in the top one per cent of universities in the world. Nottingham delivers “an outstanding student experience and a ‘distinct’ approach to internationalisation”. About the University Our reputation for excellence in teaching and research across the full range of academic disciplines makes us one of the The University has gained an outstanding international first choices for undergraduate and postgraduate students reputation for its world-class teaching and research and has worldwide. won numerous awards, including two Queen’s Awards for Enterprise. It is a past winner of The Times Higher ‘University We have five faculties: Arts, Engineering, Medicine and Health of the Year’ and also its first recipient of ‘Entrepreneurial Sciences, Science, and Social Sciences. University of the Year’. Our commitment to attracting the Teaching and learning is core to the University’s activities and highest-calibre staff and investing in research is further generates the majority of its revenues. The current strategy demonstrated through the two Nobel Prizes awarded to builds on our strengths and further enhancement and Nottingham, for medicine and for economic sciences. innovation are vital to ensure continuation of this success. Our vision of an international education has taken us beyond The increasingly competitive nature of markets for students most other universities, through the establishment of campuses drives the need for continual review and refreshment of the in Malaysia and China, which between them have more than design, delivery and assessment of programmes. 12,000 students. Together with the UK student community of Our research excellence underpins the University’s continued more than 34,000, a third of whom are international, this success in winning research awards. Excellence was recognised constitutes a unique learning environment. We have one of the at the Times Higher Awards 2014, where Nottingham won largest populations of international students of any British ‘Research Project of the Year’ for Professor Harminder Dua’s university, with students from nearly 150 countries. ground-breaking work to discover a new layer of the human eye. The University of Nottingham Appointment of Chief Financial Officer 6 About The University of Nottingham As an institution where much research has a commercial The University structure: a quick guide focus, we have a wide range of connections with businesses across the globe. We are in the top ten British institutions for The University is governed by two main bodies: Council and income from industry, with a research portfolio worth more Senate. It is headed by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir than £300 million. We have developed partnerships with key David Greenaway and its Chancellor is Sir Andrew Witty. corporate partners, such as Rolls-Royce,