Are you an experienced solicitor or barrister looking for a rewarding leadership role where you can use your legal expertise to make a lasting impact? At The University of Law, you'll have the opportunity to combine your professional experience with people leadership, helping to develop the next generation of solicitors and barristers in a supportive, collaborative and values-driven environment.

You don't need previous experience in academia to succeed with us. Many of our academic leaders have transitioned from legal practice or commercial legal roles, bringing invaluable real-world insight to our students. If you're considering a career change and are looking for a role with purpose, we'll support you every step of the way with comprehensive training, mentoring and ongoing professional development.

This is a unique opportunity to balance teaching with leadership. You'll spend approximately half of your time delivering teaching within our Vocational Law programmes and the other half leading and supporting a team of academics, currently comprising four lecturers and a small cohort of Visiting Lecturers.

As Academic Manager, you'll be responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of our programmes, fostering an engaging and high-performing academic culture, supporting excellent student outcomes, and building strong relationships with the local legal profession and wider community. Working closely with colleagues across the University, you'll play a key role in maintaining the high standards of legal education for which ULaw is renowned.

If you're passionate about developing people, sharing your legal expertise and making a genuine difference to the future of the profession, we'd love to hear from you.

Internally the role is known as a Campus Manager. You can view the full job description here: Campus Manager - Reading and its associated roles & responsibilities.

As our Campus Manager, you will:

Provide leadership and ensure the successful delivery of programmes to the highest academic and professional standards. Working closely with Faculty leadership and wider University teams, leading the delivery of all programmes to ensure quality and consistency.

• Deliver high-quality teaching to our PG students on the SQE and PGDL, and other courses as required

• Lead and develop a highly performing academic team through coaching, workload planning and people management

• Drive an outstanding student experience through excellent teaching delivery and campus engagement - working closely with the Faculty Leadership team and other departments within the University and our partnership with University of Reading.

• Support student recruitment initiatives alongside business development and marketing teams

• Build and maintain relationships with local schools, universities, businesses and legal communities

• Contribute to campus planning, resource management and operational performance

• Promote continuous improvement across teaching quality, student satisfaction and campus operations

• Support staff development, workload planning and people management activity

• Represent the campus internally and externally to enhance the University’s profile

Is this you?:

You’ll be a confident and credible leader who can inspire teams and build strong relationships both internally and externally. You’re proactive, commercially aware, and passionate about delivering high-quality education and student outcomes.

• A qualified solicitor, barrister

• Strong leadership and people management experience

• Proven ability to deliver results and meet targets

• Experience in education, legal, or commercial environments

• Excellent communication, organisational, and stakeholder management skills

• Commercial awareness and ability to drive growth

The closing date for application is 16th August 2026. For an overview of the position please contact andrea.jones@law.ac.uk Please note: the panel for these roles will be interviewing candidates on receipt of their applications and may close the advert early due to large volumes of applications.

Benefits

On top of a salary of £59,500. We provide a generous annual leave entitlement of 35 days plus Bank Holidays, and there’s a rewards package that includes:

• Private Medical Scheme and Life Assurance

• Contributory Pension Scheme

• Training and Qualifications (including Course Sponsorship/Fee Discount)

• Season Ticket Loans and Student Discounts

At The University of Law, you will work alongside other like-minded professionals who are passionate about driving innovation in higher education and delivering successful outcomes for our students.

Our Approach

We are committed to ensuring our workforce is reflective of our diverse student population, striving to increase the representation of age, disability, gender identity and expression, religion, race, sex, sexual orientation, and socio-economic background of our employees.

We’re also committed to providing adjustments to those who may require support with the recruitment process - please contact the ULaw Talent Acquisition Team talentacquisition@law.ac.uk.

Please note: For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK - if in doubt please visit the following link Employers' right to work checklist - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Please note we are not a licenced sponsor.