This is a new leadership role within the VARI, NAL and Archives team that recognizes the V&A’s important role in designing research-led teaching for the 21C. The postholder will lead on the strategic development of new academic partnerships that build on the V&A’s track record in innovative, interdisciplinary teaching to co-develop UG and PG HE programmes that equip students with the knowledge, skills and aptitudes needed to deal with and lead in our fast-moving and ever more complex world. They will be responsible for building and developing relationships, research-led HE curricula, and collaborative research opportunities with emerging partners involved in East Bank (UCL, LCF, ULiL), the wider group of HEIs in East London (UEL, QMUL, Birkbeck) and academic partners for the V&A family of sites (including V&A Wedgwood Collection and V&A Dundee). In this capacity, they will forge new collaborations between cultural institutions and HE and the local/global community. They will also direct the V&A’s involvement in doctoral partnerships (such as the AHRC-funded CDP and DTP schemes) and oversee VARI’s doctoral students, fostering and supporting students as active members of the V&A’s research community. The post holder will work closely with two key roles in the VARI team: the Head of History of Design, to ensure new relationships and activities are complementary to the long-standing relationship with the RCA, and the Research Grants Manager, on the development of new research projects and fellowships with academic partners. Finally, the post-holder will support the Director of VARI, NAL and Archives in the management of the new department, contributing to planning and budgeting, holding line management responsibilities within the VARI, NAL and Archives team and sharing responsibility for relevant ECRs and Research Fellows and the coordination and dissemination of their research outputs.  

Closing date for receipt of applications is Friday 21st January 2022 at 09:00