Employer Advisory Board Member - Psychology (sports and high performance) in Newcastle upon Tyne

Time Commitment: 2-3 meetings (online) per year plus optional additional work.

We are an aspirational and multi-award-winning university, delivering rapid growth with ambitious plans to disrupt the HE sector through our passion for innovation and digital education. Our vision is to become the first-choice university for career-focused lifelong learners worldwide, ensuring that everyone, everywhere can access higher education.

There has never been a more exciting time to join Arden University, as we expand into new disciplines, forge worldwide partnerships, and expand our locations.

About our School: Our School of Psychology has grown significantly over the last few years, and our journey continues. Our academic team brings together extensive experience from academia, professional practice, and industry. Our goal is to equip our students with both theoretical knowledge and practical skills, ensuring they are fully prepared for employment upon graduation.

About the Opportunity: Arden University is setting up Employer Advisory Boards to help ensure programmes are industry-aligned and responsive to economic and technological change. As a Board member with expertise in sports psychology and/or high-performance environments, you will bring practical, sector-specific insight into how psychological principles are applied to enhance performance, resilience, wellbeing, and decision-making under pressure.

You will help ensure that teaching, learning, and student development reflect how performance psychology is applied in practice across one or more of the below sectors:

• Professional and elite sport
• Military, defence, police, and emergency services
• Aviation and safety-critical environments
• Finance, trading, and high-risk corporate settings
• Technology, startups, and innovation-driven organisations
• Corporate and executive high-performance programmes
• Esports and digitally mediated performance contexts

This is a collaborative and strategic role that amplifies employer voice - helping to shape direction and ensure students graduate ready to succeed in the modern workforce.

About You: As an Employer Advisory Board member, you bring current, real-world experience from sport or performance-critical environments, including insight into:

• How psychological science is applied to performance under pressure
• The skills, behaviours, and mindsets required in high-performance roles
• Common gaps between graduate capability and employer expectation
• How roles, tools, and expectations are evolving across performance sectors

You act as a translation layer between industry and academia - helping the School understand what effective performance practice looks like in the real world.

What’s in it for you? At Arden, you will become a part of a passionate and dedicated team who are committed to removing unnecessary barriers to learning and making education more accessible. Help shape the future of higher education and workforce development, influence curriculum design to ensure it reflects current and future industry needs, support the employability and social mobility of our diverse student body, collaborate with academic leaders and fellow industry experts to drive innovation and impact, and gain experience of cross-sector collaboration to support social impact.

Our Values: Stand out, Progressive, Accessible, Resourceful, Kindness, reflect who we are as an institution, a team and as individuals. If they also reflect you and you are excited by the chance to be the driving, creative force within a growing business, we want to hear from you.

Closing Date: 10th February.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion: As an Equal Opportunity Employer we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. Therefore, we make sure that our recruitment and selection processes never discriminate based upon people's age, disability, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances, and actively welcome applications from all groups.