Director of Access

Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary University goals of excellent research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and equally valued.

Ensuring equality, valuing diversity and promoting inclusion (EDI) is a key enabler of the Maynooth University Strategic Plan 2023 – 2028 and the University sees it as vital that we respond through positive actions to the object of greater inclusion. Our greatest impact on society is through inspiring and educating creative, inquisitive and critically engaged minds. We have a reputation for authentic, strengths-based education, supporting participation, engagement, and progression for all students.

We are seeking to appoint a Director of Access who will have responsibility for strategic leadership and development of the Maynooth Access Programme. The Director of Access will be a senior university leader with responsibility for developing, and implementing a sustainable widening participation approach mainstreamed institutionally, and supporting policy development nationally, with the objective of supporting the access, retention and progression of identified National Access Plan (NAP) target groups in higher education.