Programme Director, Executive Education / Assistant or Associate Professor of Practice – AI Leadership

About the Opportunity

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Programme Director, Executive Education / Assistant or Associate Professor of Practice

Position Overview

Discipline

Business Strategy & Transformation

Faculty

Centre for Apprenticeships / Executive Education

Location

London, Devon House (St Katharine’s Dock)

Hybrid

Term

Full-time; Permanent

Salary Range

Assistant Professor (G8) £49,469 to £57,316, progressing to £60,795 per annum once in post.

Associate Professor (G9) £59,030 to £72,555, progressing to £79,276 per annum once in post

Direct Reports

None initially; dotted-line coordination of contributing faculty and assessors on the AI Leadership programme

Reports to

Academic Director, Centre for Apprenticeships / Associate Dean, Innovation & Enterprise

Benefits

The university supports staff maintaining a good work/life balance, offers flexible working and parental leave opportunities, an Employee Assistance Programme which provides free, confidential advice on both home and work concerns, as well as optional private medical insurance, season ticket loans, and participation in the cycle to work scheme.

Start

By arrangement

The Role

In this role you’ll lead on the design and delivery of programming for senior managers and specialists within organisations to build AI strategy, governance, and delivery capability.

Northeastern University London wishes to appoint a Programme Director and Assistant or Associate Professor of Practice to lead delivery of the University’s AI Leadership courses within the Centre for Apprenticeships and as part of the wider Innovation and Enterprise team. This is a unique appointment for an academic who has built a career in industry and now brings that experience directly into strategic programme design and academia-employer partnerships.

The appointee will carry academic and operational responsibility for the university’s first three AI Leadership Apprenticeship Units:

•         AI Strategy and Opportunity

•         AI Adoption, Procurement, and Governance

•         AI Delivery and Organisational Transformation

Each unit combines pre-work, live workshops, capstone simulations, and micro-credential skills testing (AU0009–AU0011), and is designed for delivery online, in person, or blended — including at employer venues (e.g. corporate headquarters) and on campus in London.

The appointee will work across both the Centre for Apprenticeships and the wider Innovation & Enterprise ecosystem which includes a dynamic Start-up Hub and £100 million Quantum Fund, as well as benefiting from Northeastern’s global network of experiential education and impactful research and nearly 4,000 employer partners.

The three AI Leadership Apprenticeship Units are the core, non-negotiable part of the role from day one. The wider development of the role is for the appointee to explore and help shape over their first year, in discussion with their line manager the Academic Director, Centre for Apprenticeships as part of the wider Innovation and Enterprise team.

The university intends to develop and scale additional custom, non-degree executive courses for partner-employer cohorts, as part of a new Quantum & AI workforce transformation discovery-led executive programme for senior leaders.

The appointee may carry an affiliation to other units within the University — for example, the Start-up Hub or the Computational Philosophy Lab — depending on their background and interests.

The successful candidate should be prepared to teach at employer venues (e.g. corporate headquarters) as well as on campus in London.

We particularly encourage applications from those with substantial industry or practitioner backgrounds as well as academic experience, an interest in executive education, innovative teaching, learning and assessment, and UK apprenticeships; those with experience of supporting a wide variety of learners; and those belonging to groups underrepresented in UK higher education. We are open to appointing on a reduced fraction/job-share basis subject to business needs.

About the Faculty

The Centre for Apprenticeships is the home of the University’s award-winning apprenticeships and work-related learning programmes and promotes excellence in work-based learning, online teaching, and partner-engaged instructional design. Apprenticeships represent a gold-standard of experiential education, combining academically rigorous HE programmes with the real-world…