Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Medical Sciences

Newcastle University is a great place to work, with excellent benefits. We have a generous holiday package; plus the opportunity to buy more, great pension schemes and a number of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.

Closing Date:  12 March 2025

Newcastle University is one of the UK’s great civic, research-intensive Universities. We are home to a diverse community of 29,000 students and more than 6,000 staff from 145 countries. We deliver world-leading research, spanning a wide range of activities with a strategy to address major global societal challenges, including ageing and health; data; energy; cities; and culture and the creative arts. Sitting in the heart of Newcastle city centre, with presence in Malaysia and Singapore, we are ranked top 30 in the UK in the 2025 Times/Sunday Times rankings and top 130 in the world in the 2025 global QS rankings. 

The University is looking to appoint a new Pro Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Medical Sciences (FMS). This role reports to the Vice-Chancellor and leads one of the largest health faculties in the UK with around 8,300 students, 2,100 staff and a turnover of £230m. In FMS we educate for life, nurturing the next generation of practitioners, clinicians, scientists and educationalists.  Ranked 80 globally for Medicine (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025), FMS’s mission is to create a world in which we all live better, for longer. Our expertise spans understanding rare diseases to multi-morbidity and ageing, all with a focus on improving health and wellbeing for all. Research is at the heart of what we do and how we educate students.  We are home to the National Innovation Centre for Ageing; the development of the UK’s first Health Innovation Neighbourhood; and the world’s biggest study into non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver. NUMed Malaysia is our purpose-built campus delivering identical programmes of study to our UK-based provision in medical and biomedical sciences in Southeast Asia.

As well as providing leadership of the Faculty, the Pro Vice-Chancellor will play an important wider leadership role, with colleagues on the University Executive Board, adopting a collaborative and integrated approach to delivering University -wide success. This is a role for an inspirational leader who can lead, shape, and fulfil the agenda of the Faculty. You will demonstrate an outstanding reputation in research in one of the Faculty’s disciplines, a commitment to excellent education, proven leadership and management credentials and the vision and capability to enhance the Faculty’s performance. You will bring connectivity to research funders and industry and a strong ability to engage outside academia as well as across disciplines.

You will share our commitment to Equality Diversity and Inclusion and demonstrate this through leadership and actions. Newcastle is an inclusive community where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds with the qualifications and experience to undertake this role, including under-represented groups. 

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Applications should consist of a covering letter, full CV detailing academic and professional qualifications, employment history, latest remuneration and relevant achievements.  

Applications can be uploaded at https://candidates.perrettlaver.com/vacancies/. Please quote reference 7741. For informal inquiries please contact Eljoh Balajadia on eljoh.balajadia@perrettlaver.com or +44 (0) 203928 7375.

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Newcastle University is a global University where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.  As a University of Sanctuary, we aim to provide a welcoming place of safety for all, offering opportunities to people fleeing violence and persecution.

We are committed to being a fully inclusive university which actively recruits, supports and retains colleagues from all sectors of society.  We value diversity as well as celebrate, support and thrive on the contributions of all of our employees and the communities they represent.  We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from individuals who can complement our existing teams, we believe that success is built on having teams whose backgrounds and experiences reflect the diversity of our university and student population.

At Newcastle University we hold a silver Athena Swan award in recognition of our good employment practices for the advancement of gender equality.  We also hold a Race Equality Charter Bronze award in recognition of our work towards tackling race inequality in higher education REC.  We are a Disability Confident employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role as part of the offer and interview scheme.

In addition, we are a member of the Euraxess initiative supporting researchers in Europe. 

Requisition ID: 27851