B-Clinic Academic Lead

This 18-month fixed-term academic appointment sits in Professional Services at Surrey Business School, where it leads the B-Clinic, which pairs students with businesses and start-ups on live consultancy projects. The work centres on building partnerships and scoping client projects across the broad business subjects, then working with module teams on curriculum and assessment design. It also covers student support and delivery, and setting up impact tracking to build an evidence base for the clinic's next phase. Fit depends on industry connections, experience of experiential or work-based learning and strong evaluation skills.

What the job involves

• Develop business partnerships and well-scoped client projects across the broad business subjects
• Support curriculum and assessment design around genuine business needs, working with module and programme teams
• Coordinate delivery, student preparation, client engagement and feedback
• Support students and refer them to specialist services when needed
• Establish impact tracking of businesses engaged, problems addressed, value created for partners and student benefits
• Build an operating model and evidence base to guide the B-Clinic's next phase
• Shape experiential learning across the School and connect business practice with academic education
• Improve the relevance, organisation and support of experiential learning within the student experience and employability programme

Experience

• Record of independently coordinating business partnerships and experiential or work-based learning
• Evidence of effective delivery and evaluation of experiential or work-based learning
• Strong industry connections
• Relevant experience from industry, professional practice or higher education

Skills & knowledge

• Sound understanding of experiential or work-based learning
• Ability to engage businesses and academics
• Ability to translate business challenges into purposeful learning
• Strong communication, organisational and impact-evaluation skills
• Current business knowledge and relevant scholarship to improve learning
• Sharing good practice

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