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There have been a number of changes in our Professional Services directorate over recent months.

• In June we announced a series of changes to the alignment of teams in the former Engagement and Advancement directorate including the creation of a new bespoke directorate for Communications. Emily Fingland joined us on 2 September as the new Executive Director of Communications.
• We are also pleased to welcome Chris Griffin who is taking up the new post of Director of Organisational Risk and Resilience in the Governance, Legal and Strategy Implementation directorate on 1 October. He joins us from the University of Warwick, where he is currently the Head of Risk and Resilience.
• On 5 September we also announced the appointment of the new Chief Digital and Information Officer, Richard Strange, who will join us in November.
• Two new Associate Directors of Faculty Operations join the Faculty Operating (ADoFO) Service: Ali Craig joined us on 12 August as ADoFO in Faculty of Arts and Humanities, having come from University of Hull where she was Director of their Academic Service Centre. Olga Lewellyn starts on 1 October in Faculty of Medicine, joining us from the University of Portsmouth where she has been Head of Campus Partnerships.
• Health and Safety, which has been headed up by Peter Adams following Cathy’s Day retirement last year has now moved from reporting to Kieron Broadhead to being embedded in Human Resources under Anne-Marie Sitton.

Estates and Facilities

There are multiple changes to the leadership of our Estates team as Kevin Argent continues to progress the directorate transformation programme:

• Jason Pior, who will start 9 September, will be responsible for leading the strategic development and effective utilisation of the university’s estate including master planning, capital programme/project delivery, space strategy and property management.
• Phillipa Patterson, joins on 1 November and will establish and lead the Estates and Facilities Programme Management, Business and Support Services functions.
• Gilly Haskey and Peter Moore, starting on 21 October and 4 November respectively, will lead and manage the planning and delivery of the University of Southampton capital programme and major projects.
• Katie Woodward joins on 4 November and will report to Hayden Matthews, Director of Engineering & Infrastructure. She will be responsible for Engineering and Hard Facilities Management services across the university’s estate portfolio.