Director, EMBA, Dubai Programme

London Business School

Dubai, UAE

Ref: RP891-01

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Help Us Transform the Way the World Does Business

Our Dubai EMBA needs an exceptional Programme Director to ensure that our students get the best possible academic experience and pastoral care.

Take Responsibility for the Delivery of Exceptional Education

The London Business School EMBA is one of the most respected programmes of its kind, and has been part of the management education of hundreds of leading businesspeople from all over the world. The Dubai programme is based at our campus in the Dubai International Financial Centre, but also involves spending some of the academic year in London.
In this role you’ll work with the Director of EMBA programmes on ensuring the Dubai EMBA Programme is closely aligned with the London EMBA and the wider EMBA portfolio. It’ll be up to you to develop the learning and support environment that our students expect from a top-tier institution, and we’ll look to you to monitor and report on their satisfaction with the experience they’ve had.

You’ll build the reputation of our EMBA Dubai programme by:
• Overseeing and enhancing the overall student experience, leading the Dubai programme team to ensure the students are very well supported academically and pastorally throughout their entire academic journey.
• Reviewing and developing curriculum content to ensure it remains relevant and innovative.
• Encouraging full faculty involvement in programme development through communication, relationship-building, and information dissemination.
• Establishing and monitoring programme budgets.
• Developing and managing a high-performing team in Dubai, including three direct reports.
• Working with internal and external stakeholders in Dubai and London to ensure a smooth and professional operation that complies with the School’s internal processes and our external regulators and accreditors.
• Supporting our Recruitment and Admissions team in the region to deliver high calibre student cohorts each January and September.

Share Our Knowledge
We generate research and ideas that have a real, lasting influence on people, businesses and markets around the world. To do that, we have to make sure we’ve got the people, tools and infrastructure to share our thinking globally. In this role, you’ll take ownership of a premier management education programme in a rapidly changing market.

Benefits
As an employee at London Business School you will enjoy a generous holiday entitlement, on site swimming pool, sauna and gym, automatic enrolment to the Universities Superannuation Scheme (a defined benefit workplace pension scheme) and season ticket loan facility. There is also a wide range of professional development opportunities to support your career path. Our full list of employee benefits can be accessed here.

Closing date: 8th June 2017.

Requirements

• Degree-level education, preferably with an MBA.
• A strong track record in business education.
• Substantial programme leadership experience, involving financial and personnel management.
• Good problem-solving, influencing and negotiation skills.
• Knowledge and experience of the Middle East is also highly desirable.

About the Company

London Business School is one of the world’s elite business schools. We shape business practice and transform careers across the globe. Our academic strength drives original and provocative business thinking, empowering our people to challenge conventional wisdom in a truly unique academic environment.

London experience

Location is everything. The strength we draw from the cultural diversity, the hunger and dynamism of London, sets us apart like no other school. We offer unparalleled access to some of the world’s most successful businesses, who work right on our doorstep.

Our people are a reflection of the city in which we are based, where commerce, finance, science, the arts, media, heritage and multiculturalism collide with energy and enthusiasm.

Academic excellence

We are thought leaders with an unquenchable thirst for learning and a devotion to world class research and teaching. Our international faculty is the best in the world. In the classroom, they share their research and thought leadership with you. In the boardroom, they advise some of the worlds’ biggest clients.

Our people benefit from this combined expertise, all the while learning how to have a positive impact on the way the world does business.

We are the only non-US business school to have been ranked number one in the world for our full-time MBA programme (Financial Times) and we hold the highest average research score of any UK higher education institution.

World view

We think global. We provide a varied, multicultural learning environment that gives us a global edge and a unique competitive advantage.

We are a melting pot of ideas, energy and influences. Ninety percent of our Masters degree students come from outside the UK and our Executive Education participants come from more than 130 countries. Exposure to our unique academic environment and access to the 40,000 strong worldwide network of alumni, continues to shape successful careers around the world.

Ours is a global school with global ambition. Big business, small business and entrepreneurs all benefit from our unmatched diversity of thought. No other school can guarantee such a richly diverse, vibrant, hungry and connected experience, nor such a powerfully global perspective.

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