Mike Townsend will be leaving Sussex at the end of January after five years as Head of Internal Audit.
Employed by an NHS internal-audit consortium, he will be Head of Internal Audit for about half a dozen NHS trusts in Sussex, with a total income/expenditure of approx £1 billion.
Mike describes his new job as "a significantly bigger role with a much larger team". He adds: "After getting to grips with the higher education sector, I am now looking forward to facing a whole new set of challenges."
Internal Audit are responsible for appraising all of the University's activities, financial and otherwise, however they are funded. On a five-year cycle, they examine the systems and controls in each area of the University, to make sure that policy decisions are made efficiently and effectively.
Mike's departure gives senior managers the opportunity to look at how the audit arrangements for Sussex might best be organised in the future. In the meantime, auditing activities will continue as before.