Director of Education

EIT Health – a new Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) designated by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) – is focused on promoting entrepreneurship, innovation, and education in the domain of healthy living and active ageing. EIT Health brings together leading organisations along the entire value chain from smaller companies to larger industry, excellent academic and research institutions, as well as public sector organisations, to promote healthy living, support active ageing and improve healthcare by removing barriers to innovation, promoting talent and education, leveraging enabling technologies and exploiting big-data. As an EIT-designated KIC, EIT Health can utilise European Commission/EIT funding and leverage the resources of its partner organisations in order to achieve its goals.

EIT Health headquarters will be located in Munich and will develop its activities across a network of co-location centres in six cities: Paris, London, Barcelona, Rotterdam, Stockholm and Heidelberg. Those co-location centres are the home-base to 52 core partners and 92 associate partners, some of whom are also located in Hungary, Wales, Poland, Portugal, Croatia and Slovenia and will begin operations in mid-2015.

EIT Health is now seeking to appoint a Director of Education. The post holder, who will be a member of the Management Board, will provide overall education direction for the EIT Health Supervisory Board, CEO, Directors and colleagues, taking executive responsibility for the development and implementation of education strategy. This will include development and incorporation of innovative learning technologies. A degree in a relevant discipline, along with evidence of continued and recent professional development is essential. The successful candidate will have extensive educational knowledge and significant experience working in complex environments, ideally across both industry and academia. She/he will also demonstrate proven leadership skills and evidence of the successful delivery of significant educational initiatives.

Qualified candidates from all sectors are invited to apply. The position is to be filled by around mid-year and the salary and benefits package will be attractive and commensurate with experience.

Further information, including details of how to apply, can be downloaded atwww.perrettlaver.com/candidates quoting reference 1986. For an initial informal discussion on the role, please contact Dr Goran Gregorovic via +44 (0) 207 340 6202 or goran.gregorovic@perrettlaver.com The deadline for applications is 12.00 noon CEST on Wednesday 1^st July 2015.