Shared Leadership Groups

Shared Leadership Groups provide leadership and coordination of professional services across UAS, divisions and departments

Shared Leadership Groups (SLGs) bring together senior leaders from across central teams, divisions and departments to provide shared leadership for each professional services function. The groups are being established following the recommendations of the Strategic Review of Professional Services. Implementation is being overseen by the Professional Services Programme. 

SLGs have an ongoing leadership role in the end-to-end delivery of their professional function, ensuring they are effective, efficient, and aligned with the University’s academic and strategic priorities. They are responsible for leading change within their professional function, building on the Professional Services Together themes of people, collaboration and quality. 

The groups have a clear role within the Professional Services Programme: identifying, assessing and implementing opportunities for improvement and efficiencies. In time, SLGs will shape how services are designed, aligned and monitored across the University, working to improve consistency and coordination, and to strengthen capability. The Professional Services Programme will play an important role in coordinating and sequencing emerging priorities and change identified by SLGs.  

Two SLGs – People and Finance – are now in place, membership and contact information on these groups are available below. Further groups will be established during Michaelmas term for professional functions including Academic Administration, Digital, Estates and Research. Together, these groups will strengthen coordination, consistency and trust across the University, helping to deliver more coordinated professional services that enable Oxford’s core mission. 

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The Finance Shared Leadership Group meets every three to four weeks. It brings together members of the Finance Division Leadership team and representatives of divisions and departments, including Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM) and Oxford Lifelong Learning (formerly the Department of Continuing Education). 

Chair:  

  • Simon Boddie, Chief Financial Officer 

Members: 

  • Kristen Gillingham, Director of Commercial Capital Finance, Finance Division
  • Charlotte Taylor, Director of Financial Planning, Finance Division
  • Katherine Gardiner, Director of Financial Operations, Finance Division
  • Jo Sibbald, Director of Purchasing, Finance Division
  • Ash Brutnall, Director of Financial Reporting, Finance Division
  • Marius Apetrei, DFC, GLAM
  • Ellen Higgins, DFC, Humanities
  • Jeremy Sims, Divisional Financial Controller (DFC), Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS)
  • Angela Lintern, Chemistry Finance Lead, MPLS
  • Peter Callow, DFC, Medical Sciences Division
  • Gavin Day, Chief Operating Officer and Business Development Manager, Oxford Lifelong Learning
  • Kathleen Parsons, DFC, Social Sciences Division

 

Please contact your local representative if you have any questions or ideas for the group.

The People Shared Leadership Group meets regularly. It brings together members of the People Department Leadership team and representatives of divisions and departments, including Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM) and Oxford Lifelong Learning (formerly the Department of Continuing Education).   

Chair: 

  • Markos Koumanditis, Director of Human Resources 

Members: 

  • Linda Pope, Head of HR, GLAM
  • Katie Spindloe, Head of HR, Humanities
  • Mary Fridlington, Head of People Planning, Mathematics, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS) 
  • Gillian Morris, Head of HR, Medical Sciences Division (MSD) 
  • Elena McPhilbin, Director of HR – Nuffield Department of Medicine, MSD
  • Emma Marron, Head of HR, Oxford Lifelong Learning 
  • Renu Gupta, Director of Talent and Deputy HR Director, People Department
  • Dawn McNish, Head of ER and Policy, People Department
  • Jo Mason, Head of Partnerships, People Department
  • Marilyn Verghis, Deputy Head of EDU, People Department
  • Brian Jenkins, Interim Director of Occupational Health and Safety, People Department
  • Jonathan Roger, Departmental Administrator, People Department
  • Sarah Willcox-Jones, Head of Academic HR, Social Sciences Division 

 

Please contact your local representative if you have any questions or ideas for the group.

Contact us

If you have any questions about the implementation of the Strategic Review, please email psprogramme@admin.ox.ac.uk

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