Pro Vice Chancellor; Education and Student Experience

Pro Vice Chancellor (Education and Student Experience)

This is an exceptional senior leadership opportunity to play a defining role in shaping the educational mission and student experience of Cardiff University.

As Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education and Student Experience), you will provide University-wide strategic academic leadership for education, learning and the student experience, advancing Cardiff University’s strategy Our Future, Together. You will champion inclusive, innovative and partnership-based approaches to education that enable all students to thrive academically, personally and professionally, and ensure that excellent education is central to the University’s identity as a values-led, research-intensive, and global civic institution.

Working as a key member of the University Executive Board, you will lead the development and delivery of education and student experience strategy across the University. You will guide enhancement of curricula, assessment and pedagogic practice, strengthen student partnership, and provide senior academic leadership for quality, standards and regulatory engagement. Through collaboration with students, academic colleagues and professional services, you will drive continuous improvement in student success, wellbeing, inclusion and employability.

This role is pivotal to Cardiff University’s ambition to be a sector leader in learning and teaching across Wales, the UK and internationally, and to its commitment to civic impact, sustainability, equity and bilingualism. If you are an inspiring, inclusive and future-focused academic leader with the vision, credibility and influence to shape outstanding education and student experience at scale, we would be delighted to hear from you.

The postholder will be appointed for a four-year term as Pro Vice-Chancellor, with the possibility of a further four-year term. The role will be underpinned by a Professorial appointment (depending on Professorial banding) or equivalent senior standing in an academic School within the University.

Salary: £77,771 - £135,297 per annum (Senior Staff salary scale)

Closing date: Sunday, 5 July 2026

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Statement: Cardiff University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds, including those from under-represented groups. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and encourage applications from those under-represented within the university workforce, such as LGBT+, ethnic minorities or those with disabilities.

Flexible working or job share arrangements may be considered.

Applications may be submitted in Welsh, and an application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.

Dyma gyfle uwch-arweinyddiaeth eithriadol i chwarae rôl ddiffiniol wrth lunio cenhadaeth addysgol a phrofiad myfyrwyr Prifysgol Caerdydd.

A chithau’n Rhag Is-ganghellor (Addysg a Phrofiad Myfyrwyr), byddwch yn rhoi arweinyddiaeth academaidd strategol ledled y Brifysgol ym maes addysg, dysgu a phrofiad y myfyrwyr, gan hyrwyddo strategaeth Prifysgol Caerdydd, Ein Dyfodol, Gyda’n Gilydd. Byddwch yn hyrwyddo dulliau addysgol sy’n gynhwysol, yn arloesol ac yn seiliedig ar bartneriaethau, gan alluogi pob myfyriwr i ffynnu’n academaidd, yn bersonol ac yn broffesiynol, yn ogystal â sicrhau bod addysg ragorol yn ganolog i hunaniaeth y Brifysgol sy’n sefydliad dinesig a byd-eang a arweinir gan werthoedd ac sy’n ddwys o ran ei ymchwil.

Gan weithio fel aelod allweddol o Fwrdd Gweithredol y Brifysgol, byddwch yn arwain y gwaith o ddatblygu a chyflwyno strategaeth addysg a phrofiad y myfyrwyr ledled y Brifysgol. Byddwch yn arwain y gwaith o wella cwricwla, asesu ac arferion addysgeg, yn cryfhau partneriaethau â myfyrwyr ac yn rhoi uwch-arweinyddiaeth academaidd o ran ansawdd, safonau ac ymgysylltu rheoleiddiol. Drwy gydweithio â myfyrwyr, cydweithwyr academaidd a’r gwasanaethau proffesiynol,…