Assistant / Associate Professor in the Soil Microbiome (Job Number: 25000279)
Department of Engineering
Grade 8/9: - Grade 8 £46,735 - £55,755 per annum Grade 9 £59,139- £66,537 per annum
Open-Ended/Permanent - Full Time
Contract Duration: Permanent
Contracted Hours per Week: 35
Working Arrangements: Monday to Friday
Closing Date: 03-Apr-2025, 5:59:00 PM
Disclosure and Barring Service Requirement: Not Applicable.

EDUCATION

Candidates must demonstrate the development and delivery of high-quality teaching that contributes to providing a supportive and enabling learning environment and curricula which encourage students to achieve their potential.

ESSENTIAL EDUCATION CRITERIA

• Quality - evidence of the development and delivery of effective and engaging teaching in an engineering context especially in Environmental Engineering or Materials. (Candidates may choose to provide student evaluation scores and/or peer reviews of teaching).
• Innovation – evidence of contribution to new programme development and innovation in the design and delivery of high quality teaching or assessment of learning including lectures, small group learning and/or using technology or other techniques to enhance learning and/or assessment.
• Strategic - evidence of strategic teaching development - engagement in the design of excellent teaching programmes which are research informed and led.

EDUCATION

Candidates must demonstrate significant contribution to the development and delivery of high-quality teaching with a demonstrable contribution to the design of excellent learning environments and curricula, including curriculum development, that enable students to achieve their potential.

ESSENTIAL EDUCATION CRITERIA

• Quality - making a significant contribution to the development and delivery of high-quality teaching in an engineering context, and especially in environmental engineering or other relevant subjects at a nationally competitive level. Contribution to training, educating and mentoring other teachers in the department and/or the University in relationship to learning and teaching. (Candidates may choose to provide student evaluation scores and/or peer reviews of teaching that are directly attributable to the candidate).
• Innovation – evidence of successful new programme development and innovation in the teaching methods for the design / delivery of high-quality teaching at a nationally competitive level including lectures, small group learning and/or using technology or other techniques to enhance learning and/or assessment.
• Leadership and Strategic Development – Significant contribution to the design and delivery of excellent teaching activities and the creation of learning environments that enable students to achieve their potential. Training, educating and mentoring other teachers in relationship to learning and teaching.
• Qualification - candidates must have, or have the ability to attain, the rank of Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/fellowship/fellowship), which is the national body that champions excellence in higher education.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Pursue research that is high quality in terms of originality, significance and rigour.
• Develop clear plans for the pursuit of national and international funding opportunities to support research and end-user engagement.
• Play a role in relevant teaching and research supervision and contribute to ongoing curriculum development.
• Contribute to enhancing engineering education within both existing and new programmes.
• Contribute to enhancing the quality of the research environment in the Department, the wider University and beyond through collaborative research activity.
• Demonstrate a willingness and ability to contribute to the administrative work, citizenship and values of the Department.
• Deliver lectures, seminars and tutorials at undergraduate and taught postgraduate levels across the Department, as well as engaging in related activity such as assessment, supervision of design, laboratories and practical work.
• Engage fully in and enhance the values of the Department;
• Contribute to attracting and supervising research students, and to enhancing the Department’s commitment to its vibrant and inclusive postgraduate culture.
• Carry out such other duties as specified by the Head of Department.

Key responsibilities:

• To Pursue research that is world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour, commensurate with the Department’s continuing emphasis on international excellence;
• To make a significant contribution to the development of successful research project/ fellowship proposals in pursuit of suitable national and international funding opportunities to support research and end-user engagement.
• Deliver excellent teaching offering lectures, seminars and tutorials at undergraduate and taught postgraduate levels in Environmental Engineering and other subjects across the engineering discipline, as well as engaging in related activity such as assessment, supervision of design, laboratories and practical work.
• Contribute significantly to the development and delivery of high-quality teaching, including the design of excellent learning environments and curricula.
• Contribute to enhancing the quality of the research environment in the Department, the wider University and beyond. Contribute to establishing and leading research groups within and beyond the University and engaging in the mentoring of early career researchers.
• To attract and provide excellent supervision to research students, and to enhance the Department’s commitment to its vibrant and international postgraduate culture.
• Contribute significantly to the administrative functioning and collegial environment of the Department and wider University, undertaking leadership activities which support the functioning of the Department and wider University, particularly working in an interdisciplinary way across Engineering, Biosciences and Sociology.
• To fully engage in, champion and enhance the values of the Department.
• Carry out such other duties as specified by the Head of Department