Assistant Professor in the Soil Microbiome (Job Number: 25000282)
Department of Biosciences
Grade 8: - £46,735 - £55,755 per annum
Open-Ended/Permanent - Full Time
Contracted Hours per Week: 35
Closing Date: 14-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. (Candidates may choose to provide student evaluation scores and/or peer reviews of teaching).
• Innovation – experience, skills and/or achievements that demonstrate your contribution to new programme development and innovation in the design and delivery of high-quality teaching and assessment of learning. This can include lectures, small group learning and/or using technology or other techniques to enhance learning and/or assessment.
• Strategic – evidence of strategic teaching development, or achievements that demonstrate the potential to engage in the design of excellent teaching programmes which are research informed and led.

• 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 plant and soil microbiome education within both new and existing 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 to contribute to the administrative work, citizenship and values of the Department.
• Deliver lectures, seminars and tutorials at undergraduate and taught postgraduate levels, as well as engaging in related activity such as assessment.
• 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.