Head of Transnational Education

ABOUT THE ROLE

The role will involve a specific focus on delivering commercial growth whilst ensuring the University’s partnerships continue to offer high-quality provision and a positive student experience. Working with colleagues across the academic and professional support communities as well as external stakeholders, the role holder will identify and progress opportunities to grow existing partnerships.  Utilising sector intelligence and horizon scanning, the role holder will also identify new partnership opportunities, assess their viability and progress approval via relevant internal and external processes.

The role will lead the Global Partnerships team and ensure partners receive high-quality support with issues impacting partner success addressed in a timely manner.   Supporting the team to ensure they have the knowledge, focus and drive to deliver exceptional support for partners will be a key focus of the role. 

As the University’s subject matter expert for TNE, the role holder will work closely with key members of senior leadership including the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Pro Vice-Chancellor International (PVCI) and the International Director to provide advice, insight and support on matters relating to the partnership portfolio and delivery of the International Strategic Delivery Plan 

Further information is available in the job description.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The role is based in the International team, within the Marketing Service. We are a centralised professional services team located on the Newcastle city centre campus with close working links across the whole of the university community. The role will work closely with other members of the International team. You will also work collaboratively across marketing, admissions, communications and other colleagues within the service.   

The team has oversight of the current TNE portfolio, details of which can be found below.   

 https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/international/global-partners/

ABOUT YOU

To be successful in the role you will have: 

• A strong understanding of national and international trends around higher education. 
• Leadership experience and people management skills. 
• Excellent presentation, negotiation and communication experience. 
• A track record of delivering successful relationships, internally and externally.
• An Honours degree or equivalent. 

Further information is available in the person specification. 

If you would like an informal discussion about the role, please contact [email protected].

To apply for this vacancy please click 'Apply Now'.  Your application should include a covering letter and a CV.  

ABOUT US

Join Northumbria University, a research-intensive institution unlocking potential and changing lives locally and globally. Named Times Higher Education's University of the Year in 2022 and Modern University of the Year in 2025, we rank top 25 in the UK for research power.  Discover more about us.

With over 37,000 students from 140+ countries, we offer world-leading research, award-winning partnerships, and an outstanding student experience. We empower our exceptional staff, promoting a positive work-life balance and offering great benefits, including excellent pension schemes, flexible working, generous holiday entitlement and more.

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Based in Newcastle upon Tyne and London, we are an on-campus organisation and offer flexible hours and location where the role allows. We pride ourselves on diversity and inclusivity, holding a Silver Athena Swan in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality, a bronze Race Equality Charter Award and we are a Disability Confident Leader.  We also hold the HR Excellence in Research award for implementing the concordat supporting the career Development of Researchers and are members of the Euraxess initiative to deliver information and support to professional researchers. The University has implemented a range of flexible working arrangements, and we are happy to explore candidate requirements as part of the recruitment process.

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Salary: £61,165 - £70,878