Founding Dean of Technology & Design
NEOM ERI
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia
Founding Dean of Technology & Design
NEOM U
NEOM, Saudi Arabia
Founded in 2017, NEOM is designed to be the land of the future, where the greatest minds and best talents are empowered to embody pioneering ideas and exceed boundaries in a world inspired by imagination. Currently being developed across an area the size of Belgium in the northern part of Saudi Arabia, NEOM is built to be an accelerator of human progress, embodying the future of innovation in business, liveability and sustainability. Backed by an initial investment offered by Saudi Arabia, NEOM will be an international project led, populated and funded from across world and its citizens will be a community with a mix of homelands, religions and backgrounds.
NEOM is focused on becoming a pre-eminent global location for establishing new technologies and associated industries. This development will encompass many future-facing sectors of activity spanning from education, through health and wellbeing, the digital world, energy, food, and water, to creative industries, tourism, and sport. It will be driven by world-class assets and knowledge creation based on exceptional access to data.
NEOM’s first University (NEOM U) will be a world class research university, that inspires and empowers the best minds: technology to better the world, innovation through the ‘lab of the future’ and life-long personalized development. It is one of the four pillars of the NEOM Education, Research and Innovation (ERI) sector along with EC-12 Education, the Talent Academy and the NEOM Education, Research and Innovation Foundation (ERIF).
With a leadership team already comprising world-renowned academics and visionaries, NEOM U will be focused on the fusion of the liberal arts with digital thinking, computing, and technology to solve humanity’s most pressing problems and to foster a prosperous, sustainable future for all. This foundational knowledge constitutes NEOM U’s Core Curriculum. Learning, research, discovery, and innovation across disciplines will provide the fabric for the mission of NEOM U. NEOM U’s Colleges, Schools, Divisions, Institutes will be interwoven into this fabric.
The Founding Dean of Technology and Design will be a passionate, visionary, and inspirational leader who believes in the value and the opportunities offered by convergent learning and research, and will be ready, in close collaboration with the President, the Provost, the other Deans and the Directors of the Research Institutes of the Education, Research, and Innovation (ERI) Sector of NEOM, to design and launch NEOM U.
Ground breaking advances in technology, computing, data science, and AI are fusing our physical and digital worlds in ways that hold the promise to advance the world’s safety, well-being, and prosperity, and to help us look after the regeneration and sustainability of our planet. Advances in areas such as quantum science and information technologies, new materials, robotics, autonomous systems, human-machine interfaces, urban infrastructure systems, renewable energy systems, are some of the priorities that will inform the education and research programs and initiatives of the College of Technology and Design in direct alignment with the mission of NEOM and its sectors. The Founding Dean will be a visionary leader, passionate about the compelling opportunities technology makes possible for humankind. Embracing the power of diversity and inclusion, the Founding Dean will assemble, inspire, and nurture a community of learners, researchers, creators, and innovators, committed to advancing the human-centric, cross-disciplinary learning, discovery, and innovation the world needs for its safe, healthy, sustainable, and prosperous future. They will lead and oversee the establishment of partnerships with select international institutions to help launch the academic programs in their College. This is a career-defining opportunity for an academic leader who wishes to leave an unprecedented, prominent and long-lasting mark on the global education landscape.
A detailed candidate brief and information on how to get in touch can be found under ‘Related Documents’ on this site.