The Role and the Department

This post offers an exciting opportunity to make a major contribution to the development of internationally excellent research and teaching while allowing you unrivalled opportunities to progress and embed your career in an exciting and progressive institution. For more information, please visit our Department pages at

The Philosophy Department at Durham University has concentrations of research expertise across four research clusters: Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics; History of Philosophy; Mind, Language and Metaphysics, and Science, Medicine, and Society. It is home to the Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society (CHESS) and has strong links with other interdisciplinary research centres and institutes at Durham.

At postgraduate and undergraduate levels, our students can choose from a wide range of teaching, spanning the whole discipline of philosophy and the history and philosophy of science and medicine. The Department's undergraduate programmes are to be found among the top 10 in national rankings for philosophy (The Guardian, The Complete University Guide and The Times). The Department has one of the largest PhD programmes in the UK, and many of our students go on to pursue highly successful academic careers.

As Department Manager you will play a key role as part of the Department's leadership team delivering Department and University strategy. You will work closely with the Head of Department and other members of the leadership team to plan and implement policy to meet Department and University strategic aims and ensure the effective delivery of teaching and research. In this role you will also have overarching management responsibility for the Department's professional services (administration) team and will collaborate not only with academic staff within the Department but also with business partners and departmental contacts in key areas such as HR, Finance, Marketing & Communications, Strategic Planning and Student Support teams.

You will also work with the Faculty Manager and other Department Managers in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, forming a community of practice for sharing information and good practice. Department Managers take a strategic role in aspects of operation across all departments in the Faculty, e.g. collaborating to manage PS resource to ensure service delivery to students.