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Academic profile template for university leadership searches
An academic profile presents a candidate for a university or research leadership post, such as a vice-chancellor, pro-vice-chancellor, dean, head of school or institute director, to a selection committee. It condenses a long academic CV into the evidence the committee weighs: appointments, selected publications, research funding, teaching and doctoral supervision, leadership and service, honours and degrees. This Word template sets those out in up to three pages, with key facts for the current post, research field, funding secured and PhD supervision. Formatix fills it from the academic CV and copies publications and grants exactly as the CV gives them.
Academic CVs run to twenty pages, and a selection committee has a dozen to read. The profile is where the search firm shows it has understood the record: the six publications that matter, the grants that show research leadership, and the service that shows the candidate can run an institution.
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An editable file with neutral branding and a fictional example candidate, to fill in by hand. Formatix fills it automatically from a CV.
What's in the template
A profile for university and research leadership searches: appointments, selected publications, research funding, teaching and supervision, leadership and service, honours and degrees.
- Header with photo, name with academic title and post-nominals, current post and institution
- Key facts: current post, research field, funding secured and PhD supervision
- Research summary and research themes
- Appointments, and up to six selected publications copied from the CV
- Research funding, teaching and supervision, leadership and service
- Honours and awards, education and the consultant's view
What it's for: Vice-chancellor, dean, head of school and research director searches, for the selection committee.
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Who uses it
Search firms with an education practice
Vice-chancellor, dean, head of school and endowed chair searches for universities.
Research institutes and funders
Director and chief scientist appointments where the research record leads.
University HR and appointment panels
A consistent summary of each applicant for the selection committee pack.
Every page of the example
The example is in Formatix branding with fictional content. When you pick this template, it is rebuilt with your logo, colours and fonts before you use it.
How you use it
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Pick the template
Open Formatix, choose this template in Studio, and give us your website. We pull your logo, colours and fonts and rebuild the template in your brand. You see a sample before you use it.
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Drop a CV or your notes
Upload the candidate's CV, in any layout or language. For reports that carry your ratings or notes, add them alongside the CV. One credit fills one document.
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Check and send
The filled document appears beside the original for checking. Edit anything in place, then download the Word, PowerPoint or Excel file, or save it as PDF.
Download or automate? The free download is a plain file you fill in by hand. In Formatix the template is rebuilt in your brand, with your logo, colours and fonts taken from your website, and filled from a CV or your notes in about a minute. What you keep is the finished document: an editable Word, PowerPoint or Excel file.
Ask for changes in plain words, such as "move the photo to the right" or "add a Languages section", and the template is updated with the rest of its formatting kept. If you already have a document you send clients, upload that instead and Formatix turns it into a template. How Studio builds templates
Questions about this template
- What does an academic profile contain?
- The name with academic title and post-nominals; the current post and institution; key facts; a research summary and research themes; appointments; up to six selected publications with a note of the full record; research funding with funder, amount, period and role; teaching and supervision; leadership and service; honours and awards; degrees; and the consultant's view.
- Which publications are chosen?
- Those the CV marks as key or selected outputs; otherwise recent, significant and first- or last-author work and major books, up to six. Each is copied exactly as the CV gives it, with authors, year, title, venue and details; nothing is completed from memory.
- Are research income and citation figures added up?
- No. Funding amounts, research income, citation counts, h-index and PhD completions are copied as the CV states them. Nothing is totalled, converted or rounded unless the CV already gives the total.
- Does it fit on a few pages?
- Yes. The template holds the profile to three pages at most by limiting each section, such as six appointments, six publications and four grants, so the committee reads the same length for every candidate.
- Is this a download?
- No. The template is built in your brand inside Formatix and filled from the academic CV and your notes; what you download is the finished profile as a Word document or PDF.
Related templates and pages
WordPosition specificationThe candidate-facing brief for a retained search: the organisation, the opportunity, the role and the person, with terms, process and contacts only where the brief states them.
WordCandidate profile (classic)A traditional one-page candidate profile with a clear career history, laid out the way clients expect to read a CV from an agency.
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