Appointment brief Appointment of College Secretary Imperial College London SB CONTENTS 1. About Imperial 2. Strategy 2020 – 2025 3. Imperial locations 4. Faculties 5. Education and research 6. Equality, diversity and inclusion 7. The Role 8. Person Specification 9. Terms of Appointment 10. How to Apply Imperial College London | College Secretary SB Imperial College London | College Secretary SB About Imperial Imperial College London’s mission is to achieve enduring excellence in research and education in science, engineering, medicine, and business for the benefit of society. Imperial College London is one of the world’s greatest universities, renowned for its ground-breaking research, talented community of staff, students and alumni and its international reach. With a mission to achieve enduring excellence in research and education in science, engineering, medicine and business for the benefit of society, the College was founded in 1907 in South Kensington, bringing together nineteenth-century institutions including the Royal College of Science, the Royal School of Mines and City and Guilds College. Today, Imperial collaborates extensively with neighbouring institutions, including the Royal College of Art and the Royal College of Music. From its location in this great cultural quarter, Imperial provides one of the world’s best educations in STEM subjects for more than 19,000 students, over half of whom come from overseas, reflecting its status as the UK’s most international university. Its alumni and members also include 14 Nobel laureates and three Fields Medallists. Throughout its history, the College has been involved in many major breakthroughs, including the discovery of penicillin and the creation of the hologram. This tradition has continued with recent innovations such as wirelessly transferring power to drones in flight, the discovery of a new form of light and major new research in climate change, amongst much else. Imperial has four academic faculties – Engineering, Medicine and Natural Sciences, and the Imperial College Business School – as well as a significant number of interdisciplinary research centres focusing on challenging world problems. The College’s mission is supported by 8,500 highly diverse staff, who collaborate widely in the UK and internationally, often across disciplines. In 2019-2020, the College had a total turnover of £1.026 billion, of which £452 million directly supported research through grants and contracts. The College’s 2020-2025 Strategy is built on underpinning foundations that make Imperial a great academic institution and the talented, diverse and inspirational people who help make up our university community. The College’s success is recognised all over the world, and is evidenced by daily coverage of Imperial discoveries and innovations in the international media. For the latest annual report click the following link: Annual-Report-and-Accounts Imperial College London | College Secretary SB Imperial College London’s mission is to achieve enduring excellence in research and education in science, engineering, medicine and business for the benefit of society. Imperial College London | College Secretary SB Our Strategy 2020 – 2025 Our strategy is built on underpinning foundations that make Imperial a great academic institution and talented, diverse and inspiration people who make up our university community. Our partners make our work possible and help us to deliver the benefit to society through our research and education. Enablers help us to deliver our strategy. Foundations • We will continue to specialise in science, engineering, medicine and business. This is the foundation of which we build our future. • We will maintain world class core academic disciplines. All research and education must be underpinned by a deep understanding of the fundamentals. • We will encourage multidisciplinary research. Only by bringing together expertise from different disciplines can we solve today’s global challenges. • We will embed our educational experience in a vibrant, research-led, entrepreneurial environment. By learning alongside researchers who are experts in their fields our students gain the practical, entrepreneurial, and intellectual skills to tackle societal problems. People • We will build a supportive, inclusive and highly motivated staff community across all disciplines, functions and activities. This will help us to attract and retain the talented and diverse staff we need to achieve our mission. • We will enrich the student experience. Providing a broad range of activities, services and support for our students beyond their studies helps them to develop wider talents and to be successful. • We will build strong relationships with our alumni and friends. This lifelong exchange of ideas and support benefits all of us. Partners • We will strengthen collaboration with business, academia, and non-profit, healthcare and government institutions across the globe. No university can achieve excellence or realise the full benefits of its work by itself. • We will inform decision makers to influence policy. Our excellence, breadth of knowledge, connections and London location allow us to bring together and inform key decision makers in governments and industries for the benefit of society. • We will share the wonder and importance of what we do. Collaboration with the public, schools and out local communities fosters a shared passion for and understanding of our work. Enablers • We will strengthen and diversify revenues. Delivering our mission requires investment in our staff, students and facilities. • We will provide professional support, consistent processes and appropriate technology for all of our staff and students. The pursuit of excellence in research and education requires excellence in all that we do. • We will act courageously and innovatively when pursuing new opportunities. We need to take academic and financial risks to sustain excellence in research and education. For further details on our Strategy 2020 – 2025 click the following link: strategy-2020-2025 Imperial College London | College Secretary SB Imperial Locations While Imperial’s main campus is located in South opportunities, develop talent and make tangible Kensington, it has six other locations in London improvements in areas like education, based at Charing Cross, Chelsea and employment, enterprise and health. Two Westminster, Hammersmith, Northwick Park, cornerstones of this effort are the Invention the Royal Brompton, and St Mary’s hospitals. Rooms and the new School of Public Health, both exciting and important ways for us to work with The College also has the Silwood Park Campus our local communities. near Ascot, focusing on ecology, evolution and conservation. The new Michael Uren Biomedical Engineering Research Hub, also at White City, co-locates Alongside these, the White City Campus is engineers, scientists and doctors in order to help Imperial’s new 20-acre development in West solve complex medical challenges. Made possible London, a planned £2 billion investment that through a generous donation of £40 million from brings together world-class researchers, Sir Michael Uren, an Imperial alumnus, it opened businesses and partners from academia to work, in 2019. share ideas and turn cutting-edge research into benefits for society. At Imperial, we have a global footprint, too. The College established a new medical school, the The campus is located in the heart of White City, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, in one of London’s most exciting, dynamic and partnership with Nanyang Technological rapidly changing neighbourhoods. The area is University, in Singapore, and admitted its first home to pioneers in arts, culture, innovation, students in 2013. We also have many highly science and learning – organisations like BBC successful academic collaborations with Media Village and the Royal College of Art. institutions around the world, ranging from biomedical imaging with Tsinghua University in We’re committed to making a positive impact, Beijing to quantum computing with MIT in working with the local community to create new Boston. Imperial College London | College Secretary SB Faculties Imperial’s research and teaching is organised within a network of faculties and academic departments. Imperial currently has the following four faculties: Faculty of Engineering Faculty of Natural Sciences The Faculty of Engineering is unique in the UK in The Faculty of Natural Sciences fully embraces supporting world-class education and teaching and research activities across core fundamental research across the full range of scientific disciplines. engineering disciplines. The Faculty is led by the Dean and is home to over 1,700 staff and over The Faculty is led by the Dean and it employs 8,000 students. approximately 1,200 staff and has 5,000 students. Faculty of Medicine The Faculty of Medicine brings together eight Imperial College Business School departments based across several campuses to Imperial College Business School combines create a world-class teaching and research cutting-edge thinking and insight with new environment. The Faculty is led by the Dean and technology to develop innovative solutions to is home to around 2,500 staff and 4,000 real-world problems. The Business School is led students. by the Dean and employs around 300 staff and delivers education programmes to 2,200 postgraduate students. Imperial College London | College Secretary SB Imperial College London | College Secretary SB Education and Research