University careers

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I have a PhD in the humanities, given up hope of following an academic career but interested in so-called "alt-academic" roles within the higher education system.

Any one here work in professional services? In what role? What was your trajectory?

I'm sort of looking for inspiration - things I am considering are grant writing, research administration and regulation and governance. Any thoughts or insights into what these careers are like?

Very old PS person here. It's a good career choice - I love it!

My role is very procedural (finance and policy related - data driven) so possibly not your bag (governance calls to a similar skill set btw), but research support, quality assessment, even exams and admissions could work well.

I, and many others, started in faculty admin - gives you a good basic understanding of a range of specialisms (I ended up as Faculty manager and covered quality, admission, course review and validation, finance, exams, registry admin), then you can move to central PS roles.