Transformation Business Partner
WORLD CHANGERS TOGETHER
Thank you for your interest in our roles within the Transformation team.
The Transformation Team brings together diverse individuals from across the University of Glasgow, to tackle complex challenges. By working collaboratively, we empower our colleagues and students to pioneer innovative and sustainable solutions that make our university fit for the future, in an ever-changing world.
By weaving change into the fabric of our university and celebrating it within our culture, we help the institution to deliver on its strategic ambitions. When we do that in partnership with our students and colleagues, there's no limit to the impact we can have – not just locally, but nationally and even globally. Transformation is entering a new phase, with a renewed purpose and ambition to enable the University’s long-term strategic goals. With many high-impact projects underway, there is an increased appetite across the institution to understand why change is happening, ‘what that means for me’ and how to engage meaningfully with these initiatives.
A critical factor to the success of all these projects is embedding change thoroughly at a School, College, and Service level.
The current Transformation portfolio includes projects to improve the experience of approx. 30,000 students and 8,000 staff members in the following areas:
- Timetabling – the way in which we schedule all of our learning and teaching events across the estate, including accounting for the distinct needs of different groups within these cohorts e.g. accessibility requirements, research time.
- Assessment & Feedback – supporting the delivery of the Learning & Teaching Strategy.
- Routes to Enrolment – improving the journey from potential applicant at the University of Glasgow to becoming a fully registered student.
- Automation – a new service established to enable the University to benefit from the efficiency and effectiveness of new technology.
We also support colleagues across the institution to build capability from best practice across a range of specialisms including service design, process improvement and project management skills.
The Transformation Business Partner Role
The Transformation Business Partner Role
The Transformation Business Partner is a strategically focused senior change professional responsible for the successful implementation of the University’s Transformation programs within their assigned College. Collaborating with senior leaders and directly engaging with staff across all levels in their assigned Schools and College, the Transformation Business Partner will ensure the integration of successful and enduring change. Employing a matrix management approach by directly supporting and influencing change, they will collaborate with academic and professional services leaders to ensure that our staff and students adopt change well. This role will build change capabilities across the College and facilitate change at the highest levels of leadership while integrating change expertise across all Schools. Understanding the strategic landscape, local College and School needs, and the University's complexity is crucial for enabling successful change implementation.
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There are currently 4 vacancies for the Business Partner Role across our 4 Colleges:
Note: For the most part, all Business Partner roles are aligned however, within MVLS, there is an existing Business Change team which this role will integrate with.
To apply for CoAH, CoSE or CoSE, please apply via the combined link below and indicate any preference for a specific College in your cover letter. To apply for MVLS, please apply via the dedicated role link. Note that you can apply to both roles if you don’t have a specific preference.
More information
For a confidential, informal discussion about a role please contact either:
Graham Stein, Director of Business Delivery
Rebecca Findlay, Senior Transformation Lead
Opportunities
- To apply for our Transformation Business Partner (CoAH/CoSS/CoSE), please click here
- To apply for our Transformation Business Partner (MVLS), please click here
Campus development plan
Our Vision
Over the next 10 years, the major investment will expand our campus footprint by 25%, creating a new urban quarter with the University at the heart of a revitalised west end. This is the largest development since the creation of the original campus in 1870.
This is a unique opportunity for a University to extend the boundaries of its historic core in a central city location. It will create:
- New learning and teaching facilities
- Refurbishment and repurposing of existing iconic buildings for specialist uses
- Identification and design of social spaces that support the student and community experience.
The expansion of our Gilmorehill campus into the 14 acre, former Western Infirmary site will transform the West End of Glasgow. The Masterplan for the site will incorporate:
- New learning and teaching facilities supporting our students and making sure they get the best in modern teaching and learning styles and approaches
- Creation of a Research Hub, housing large-scale multidisciplinary projects and incubator space for spin out collaborations with industry. This will encourage further innovation development
- New public cycle and pedestrian routes and a new central square which will link Byres Road to the up-and-coming cultural quarter for the West End, with new links to Kelvingrove and the newly-refurbished Kelvin Hall
- Refurbishment of five listed buildings: The Chapel, the Outpatients building, the Macgregor building, the Tennent Institute and Anderson College
- Commercial opportunities, including a hotel, restaurant, bars and cafes
- The state of the art Learning and Teaching Hub adjacent to the Boyd Orr building on University Avenue will be completed next year.
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Living in Glasgow
A UNESCO City of Music, a vibrant arts and culture scene, a food-lover’s delight, and a shopper’s paradise. Just some of the highlights of the ‘friendliest city in the world’. As well as that accolade by the Rough Guides poll, Glasgow has also been named a must visit destination by publications including the New York Times, The Guardian, and Wanderlust.
Music
The city hosts an average of 130 music events a week catering for every taste; from rock to rap, and classical to country. Glasgow also has a world class club scene playing host to some of the world’s top DJs.
Shopping
Outside of London’s West End, Glasgow is frequently voted the best place for shopping in the UK. A must-visit destination for any shop-a-holic, it houses high street chains, international designers, and independent retailers. The West End, home to the University of Glasgow, is bustling with vintage fashion, vinyl stores, and second-hand bookshops.
Arts and Culture
Glasgow’s arts scene has gone from strength to strength, and is the base for five internationally renowned performing arts companies including the National Theatre of Scotland and Scottish Ballet. The city has several world-class museums, which are free to the public, and the city’s architecture is a work of art in itself.
Food and drink
You can be in Glasgow and taste the world with its many diverse restaurants, cafes, and bars. And if you’ve yet to sample the delights of haggis and whisky, Glasgow is the place to be.
The City and Beyond
Glasgow has all the opportunities and excitement of a big city but its compact size means you can quickly travel from one vibrant district to the next. You could be relaxing in one of its many parks, before shopping in the quirky West End, and then dancing until the wee small hours in the Merchant City.
And when you fancy getting out of the city you can reach the stunning Loch Lomond in just 30 minutes, climb one of our many breath-taking Munros, play golf at one of Scotland’s many world-class courses, visit one of our ancient castles, or go further North and search for Nessie! Scotland has also just been named the world’s most beautiful country by Rough Guides.
Relocating to Glasgow
Choosing to relocate to Glasgow is a big decision. There are numerous things to be considered, such as the costs of moving, the cost of living, and where exactly to relocate to. We have created two guides to aide you in the decision making process.
Find out more on relocating to Glasgow at the below link:
WORLD CHANGERS TOGETHER
WORLD CHANGING GLASGOW 2025
Our outstanding disciplinary breadth and expertise has enabled us to make world-changing advances in fields as diverse as medicine, physics, linguistics, public policy and global development.
The key to our success is our talented staff and students pushing back at the boundaries of knowledge and understanding together.
Our World Changers Together strategy recognises the fundamental importance of a culture of open cooperation: not just as colleagues and mentors or students and teachers, but as a community of discovery that reaches beyond its walls and draws inspiration and strength from its connections and partnerships worldwide: excellence that's part of something bigger. The strategy is articulated across three themes:
COMMUNITY
- People centred, globally engaged
CONNECTIVITY
- Collaboratively minded, digitally enhanced
CHALLENGES
- Solution focused, impact oriented
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Terms and Conditions
It is the University of Glasgow’s mission to foster an inclusive climate, which ensures equality in our working, learning, research and teaching environment. We strongly endorse the principles of Athena SWAN, including a supportive and flexible working environment, with commitment from all levels of the organisation in promoting gender equity.
Our values
The future holds innumerable challenges for our sector, our society, and our world. We will have to adapt and change what we do and what we offer if we are to navigate these successfully. Our strategy and approach may evolve as the landscape changes, but our values will remain constant: a fixed point of certainty in uncertain times.
We have identified our values in consultation and partnership with our staff and student community. Living and upholding these values will ensure that we remain true to the spirit of our community and ourselves:
Ambition and Excellence
- We strive for excellence through our work
- We defend academic freedom globally
- We recognise and celebrate shared success
- We have an unrelenting focus on development
Curiosity and Discovery
- We innovate and solve problems together
- We lead by influence and example
- We engage with lifelong learning and personal development
- We learn from our mistakes
Integrity and Truth
- We uphold honesty, integrity and fairness
- We share our work widely and generously
- We do the right thing, not the easy thing - or we don’t do it
- We take responsibility
An Inclusive Community
- We are one Glasgow team, and we care for and respect one another
- We advocate for diversity and believe in variety as a vital part of a healthy university
- We champion education as an engine for social progress
- We practise and advance sustainability