Adjunct Faculty in Real Estate (Executive Education) - Dubai Campus

at  Heriot Watt University

Job Posting Title: Adjunct Faculty in Real Estate (Executive Education)
FTE and Working Pattern: Part Time
Organisation Name: The School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society (EGIS)

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• RICS Certification (or other industry professional accreditations) or PhD/master’s degree in real estate and construction
• Minimum of 5-10 years industry experience in the Middle East
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of the executive education market
• Proven ability to teach Executive Education programmes for junior, mid or/and senior levels corporate clients
• Ability to travel to the UAE and Saudi Arabia to deliver the training
• Experience in delivering to Senior Management and C-suite executives
• Experience in development a curriculum and materials, and successfully executing the delivery as well as the techniques to assess participants performance and provide feedback
• Ability to collaborate throughout proposal stage with the Head of Executive Education, Head of School if and when required
• Ability to teach Postgraduate programmes is desiredExcellent Communication skills: programmes are delivered in English and so fluency in English is essential

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

Applicants working in the UAE must possess a valid visa and must provide a NO-Objection-Certificate (NOC) from the visa sponsor. UAE Nationals & Golden visa holders do not need to provide a NOC. Right to work documentation required from candidates will include.

• Colored passport copy including visa page.
• Emirates ID copy, both front and back (if UAE resident)
• Attested Degree
• Updated CV

HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY VALUES

With a history dating back to 1821, Heriot-Watt University has established a reputation for world-class teaching and professionally relevant, leading-edge research, which has made it one of the top UK universities for business and industry.
We are a vibrant, forward-looking university, well known for the quality of our degrees with employers actively seeking out our graduates. Heriot-Watt is also Scotland’s international university with an unsurpassed international in-country presence. We deliver degree programmes to circa 30,000 students in 143 countries around the world, have a further overseas campus in Dubai and boast the largest international student cohort in Scotland.
At Heriot-Watt we’ve created an environment that nurtures innovation and leadership - where our researchers, staff and students can realise their potential and develop their ambitions.
We are proud of our collegiate atmosphere and integrated teaching and research approach which has helped to build a community of committed academics and highly motivated students. Our focus on careers delivers results and we’ve an excellent reputation for graduate employability.
In addition to the Edinburgh campus, we currently have campuses in the Scottish Borders, Orkney, Dubai and Malaysia. For all of our campuses we aim to provide stimulating, supportive environments conducive to effective learning and research, where staff and students can excel. At Heriot-Watt, we have an established set of values that help us to nurture innovation and leadership, and show our commitment to continuous improvement and development in all our activities.
Our values describe our deeply held beliefs and our community spirit. They characterise not only how we are as a higher education institution but also frame how we want to be.

Our values are:

• Belong
• Collaborate
• Inspire
• Celebrate

As learning, living and working institution, we use our values as the building blocks of how we go about doing our work and how we each conduct ourselves as members of Heriot-Watt University. They represent what binds us together as a University community and help us to become the best at what we do.
For full details on our University, please view our website https://www.hw.ac.uk/about.htm

Undertaking teaching and assessment duties on professional training programmes to deliver executive education to corporate clients and the Government. Support colleagues in the delivery of courses and other activities to support the delivery of the university

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• Support The School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society in developing relevant materials in appropriate formats. Contribute to the content, design and delivery and the quality of teaching and learning, in consultation with colleagues and within the international structures and mechanisms established by the University.
• Mentor and supervise programme participants, providing effective, well documented and timely feedback, both formative and summative. Provide pastoral support, recognising when to refer a student for further support. Play a key role in the delivery and support of an excellent participant learning and overall client experience.

• Work collaboratively with colleagues at our Dubai campus as well as at our UK & other campuses where applicable, and with external networks both for the exchange of information, to share learning, and to form relationships for future collaboration.The typical time commitment includes contact hours within the classroom, preparation time, assessment & feedback time.