• Strategic Academic Leadership

Provide strategic oversight of the Institute's academic programmes, setting pedagogical vision and standards. 
Supervise and mentor the two Academic Directors, ensuring consistency and excellence across all programmes. 

• Mentoring Alumni

Maintain long-term relationships with alumni, offering mentoring and intellectual and academic guidance. 
Organise training to develop alumni research and presentation skills of students and alumni. • Guide alumni teams to produce and present policy proposals to senior politicians or civil servants, aiming to generate real-world policy impact. 

• Specialist Portfolios

Create and sustain a community of elite graduate students and early-career academics committed to intellectual freedom in increasingly hostile academic environments. 

Facilitate Fellows’ contributions to Institute activities including magazine articles, essay examination, and summer school teaching. 

Recruit new Fellows annually and maintain engagement with existing Fellows. 

• Teaching, Content, and Research 

Teach at eight to ten summer schools per year (lectures, seminars, precepts, tutorials).

Contribute to research projects, including commissioning and editing policy papers. 

• Academic Leadership at Summer Schools 

Lead the academic programme as Programme Director at four summer schools annually.

Create detailed timetables for summer schools, coordinating lecture titles, descriptions, and pre reading. 
Liaise with faculty on biographies, safeguarding training, contracts, payments, travel, and  hospitality. 
Introduce faculty, set the intellectual tone at the summer school, and ensure seminars and  precepts meet the Institute’s standards. 
Deliver the welcome lecture, valedictory lecture, and some of the precepts (small discussion  groups). 
Oversee grading of students, ensuring consistent and accurate assessment.

• Faculty, Preceptors, and Pedagogy 

 Recruit, train, and supervise guest lecturers, preceptors (graduate students and early career  academics), and interns. 
Observe and assess preceptors' teaching, and ensure they contribute to both pre-programme and  post-programme online seminars. 
Enforce the Institute’s distinctive pedagogical house style: 
o Clear PowerPoint design rules. 
o Submission of faculty materials in advance for approval. 
o Precept formats emphasising dialogue, rigour, and intellectual humility. 
Gather structured feedback from students and faculty, and liaise with Marketing and Admissions  to act on it. 

• Admissions

Conduct admissions interviews, modelling the Institute’s intellectual tone and expectations.

Liaise with the Admissions Team to secure the very best candidates, irrespective of family means.