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Executive Board Responsibilities

October 2023 Version

Portfolio

Recurrent responsibilities

Project responsibilities

Line management

Vice-Chancellor (VC)

Chief Accountable Officer Chief Academic Officer Chief Executive Officer Institutional data

Emergency Response Deputy

  • Town Hall meetings; Consultative events
  • Fundraising initiatives – Campaign for Newcastle
  • City wide Growth and Prosperity Executive Group

DVC

PVCs

Chief Operating Officer

ED Finance

Registrar

Dean of Advancement

Deputy Vice-Chancellor (DVC)

Vison and Strategy Implementation Planning and Budgeting Infrastructure strategy

Strategic projects portfolio Philanthropy disbursal, including liaison with Development Trust

  • NU Shape
  • #Decisive Newcastle
  • NICA
  • Health Innovation Neighbourhood academic strategy
  • NUFutures recruitment

 

Executive Director of Finance

Chief Financial Officer Financial strategy

Financial Risk Management (inc fraud risk)

Pensions - RBP liaison

Pensions – USS nominated contact Subsidiary and joint venture management

NUIT

Estates and Facilities

  • Newcastle Helix collaboration
  • Health Innovation Neighbourhood financial and joint venture management
  • SAP Roadmap
  • Capital Projects

Finance

Funding Assurance Team

Internal Audit

NUIT

Estates & Facilities

Registrar

University Governance Risk Management Prevent

Freedom of Speech Establishment Licence holder Military Education Committee Library and Archives

NUSU Trustee Board

Emergency response & Business Continuity

  • Admissions System Replacement
  • Castle Leazes Redevelopment
  • B2B CRM
  • IP System
  • CPD Storefront
  • Student Learning Analytics
  • Cubane benchmarking

Academic Services

External Relations

Student Services

Executive & Governance Office

International Office

Legal Services

Business Development & Enterprise

Research Development Service

Strategic Planning & Change

Director ASEAN

Executive Director of People Services

People Operations and policies Employee relations

Culture, Engagement and EDI

Health and Safety, Wellbeing Sponsor Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

  • Other residential accommodation projects
  • Engage and Aspire
  • NUIT Evolution

People Services (People Operations and People Engagement and Culture)

Executive Director of External

Relations 

Marketing, Brand and Website Student Recruitment Admissions

Advancement

Communications (incl Internal Comms) Engagement

CMA Compliance

Reputation and PR SIG and WG 
  • Education Portfolio Framework
  • Strategic Narrative
  • Institutional Ranking Strategy
  • Team Newcastle Brand Development 

Advancement

Student Recruitment & Admissions Marketing

Communications (now incorporating Corporate Comms)

Engagement & Place Team

International Office

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education)

Leading on Education Strategy Learning and Teaching (incl. IUP) Student Experience (incl. Sport) Student placements

Home student recruitment (incl. diversity)

Widening participation / Schools Quality Assurance

Online provision Student mobility (home)

Student number planning

  • Implementation of TP and PGR ERF
  • TEF
  • Sport Strategy implementation
  • Degree Apprenticeships
  • Education strategy implementation including TEL
  • School X 

Professor of Practice for Inclusive Education

Dean of Digital Education

Dean of Lifelong Learning and Professional Practice 

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global and Sustainability)

Leading on Global Strategy International student recruitment (incl. diversity)

International student number planning International student mobility

INTO relationship Environmental sustainability

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Net Zero / Climate Action

  • Europe post Brexit
  • SE Asia Hub / ASEAN
  • Student Recruitment Funnel Management 

Dean Global HaSS

Dean Global FMS

Associate Deans Global SAgE

Director International Office

Provost & Group CEO ASEAN

Vice-Provost and CEO NUMed 

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research & Innovation)

Leading on Research Strategy Research Funding

Excellence in Research

Research Culture, Ethics and Integrity International Research funding Innovation & Commercialisation Business & Industry engagement HEIF, hypothecated QR budgeting

PGR (integration in research strategy)

  • Implementation of NUAcT scheme
  • Development of Skills and Enterprise Academies
  • REF preparation
  • Turing Institute
  • N8
  • Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF) 

Dean of Innovation and Business

NUAcT Director

Dean of Research Culture and Strategy 

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Engagement and Place)

ading on Engagement and Place strategy U Policy

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gional widening participation

lture, including University Museum and Gallery Board

  • KEF lead
  • Civic University Agreement
  • Health Innovation Neighbourhood Stakeholder management 
  • HELIX
  • Insights North East
  • Devolution Deal

Dean of Social Justice

Dean of Culture and Creative Arts

Head of Engagement

Insights North East Director 

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Faculty of Medical Sciences)

Faculty leadership and management NHS relationships

NUMed Malaysia

AHSC & AHSN

NHSA

  • Faculty oversight of NU Shape, notably large cross-unit initiatives

Faculty staff

NUMed CEO

DOFO

AHSC COO

NHSA CEO

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences)

Faculty leadership and management

  • School X
  • Magna Charta Observatory Living Values
  • Faculty Size and Shape project
  • Farrell Centre
  • NINE and Northern Bridge DTPs

Faculty staff

Heads of School and Portfolio Deans

NUBS Dean

Directors of Faculty Research Institutes

UNESCO Chair

DOFO

Dean of Culture and Creative Arts (jointly with

PVC E&R)

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Science, Agriculture and Engineering)

Faculty leadership and management

NUIS

NICD

University Farms

DER

  • Singapore strategy implementation
  • Stephenson Redevelopment 

Faculty staff

4 Heads of School

DOFO

NUIS CEO (jointly with PVC Global)

Director NICD

Directors (2) NE DER-IC

Director DER (National)

Deans:

Education (jointly with PVC-E)

R&I (jointly with PVC R&I)

PG (jointly with PVC R&I)

Global (jointly with PVC-G)

Business, Innovation & Skills (jointly with Dean B&I; PVC-E&P)

Strategic Projects