Changes in the Directorate of Faculty and Student Partnerships (FSP)
02 May 2024
The FSP Directorate is becoming The Directorate of Education, Experience and Strategic Insights.
We are pleased to be able to share with you some tweaks and changes that we’ve been gradually rolling out for the Directorate of Faculty and Student Partnerships (FSP). These changes were agreed at the Exec Winter Summit in February and officially come into effect on 1 May 2024.
Given the expansion of the FSP portfolio to include the Projects and Business Analysis Team alongside Customer Services, Engagement and Teaching Learning & Students, one of the key changes we are making is to the way we present ourselves as a Directorate. So from now on our new Directorate name is 'Education, Experience and Strategic Insights'. We hope this name better reflects our new portfolio and helps to convey the more library wide nature of our core functions.
Staff updates
The other changes we have made are designed to address the knock on workload pressures associated with the growing emphasis on my role as Deputy University Librarian. To address this we have introduced a few changes to team structures:
- Janette Watson takes up a new G7 Engagement Manager in the Engagement Team to support Michelle Sharples.
- Anna Theis takes up a new Grade 7 Teaching and Learning Services Manager post within TLS, working alongside the existing Teaching and Learning Services Manager (Neil Sprunt).
- Neil Sprunt’s Teaching & Learning Manager role which has always been split with his role as Copyright Manager (0.8FTE /0.2FTE) has now been rebalanced to 0.5/0.5 FTE in acknowledgement of the increasing strategic demand for his copyright expertise.
- Building on their naturally aligned student and front line focus, the line management of Customer Services transfers from me to Sarah Rayner, Head of Teaching Learning and Students (TLS), who from now on will take on the strategic oversight of both Customer Services and TLS. Formalising this connection will be a great opportunity to pursue even stronger cooperative working practices and service enhancements.