AP & Head of Department of Geography, Geology, & the Environment

School/Directorate

School of Engineering, Computing & the Surroundings

College/Operate

College of Constructed Surroundings & Geography

The Position

Kingston College is passionate concerning the energy of a college schooling to remodel lives. We try for our workers and college students to be sought-after for his or her educational achievements and their skill to form society and contribute to the financial system. We’re an inclusive college, and our formidable City Home Technique drives our mission to boost college students’ life possibilities, help the ambitions of workers and strengthen the college’s impression on our locality, {industry}, coverage and related professions to allow a sustainable future – socially, economically and environmentally. With an total Gold Instructing Excellence Framework (TEF) ranking, we’re recognised for our dedication to prime quality educating, offering an excellent scholar expertise and supporting our college students to realize profitable diploma outcomes. 

The School of Engineering, Computing & the Surroundings (ECE) is looking for to nominate a brand new Head of the Division of Geography Geology and the Surroundings (together with Environmental Sustainability, Digital Geography, Bodily Geography and topic areas that deliver know-how into Geography and the Surroundings) to steer these disciplines in a means that ensures they’ve the utmost impression from a societal perspective. Every of those topics produce graduates with expertise which can be central to how we’re evolving in gentle of local weather change and different environmental points. Equally, there may be nice scope for analysis and information alternate to play its half on this journey. The College’s City Home Technique has set an formidable progress goal by way of scholar recruitment for the following three educational years. The School of Engineering, Computing and the Surroundings is effectively positioned to contribute successfully to this goal. Therefore, we look ahead to listening to from people with a profitable monitor report of scholar recruitment throughout the larger Schooling Sector and particularly the Geography, Geology and the Surroundings disciplines.

The Individual

Candidates ought to have sturdy administration expertise throughout the Larger Schooling sector within the UK, and a distinguished educational profile with relevance to the disciplines highlighted above. This implies understanding the tendencies and expectations of scholars, employers and {industry} alike. You should have an urge for food for innovation and the flexibility to stimulate and encourage workers in an efficient and productive means. As Head of Division, you’ll have the flexibility to contribute to the college’s targets and aims throughout the context of our values highlighted within the College’s City Home technique (Modern, Inclusive, Formidable, and Enterprising). You should have a real-world understanding of the problems at play in topics related to this publish, in order to make sure there are replace up to now portfolio of programs and experience  to help delivering the very best commonplace of schooling to college students in addition to encouraging collaboration and partnership with {industry}. The publish sits throughout the College of the Constructed Surroundings and Geography thus providing alternatives for inter-disciplinary work, and it’s anticipated that the appointee will embrace this.

The School

There are few colleges throughout the UK college panorama as various of their scope because the School of Engineering, Computing & the Surroundings (ECE). We train and analysis throughout a variety of topics, permitting for actual cross-discipline innovation and creativity.  Our lecturers are consultants – working on the forefront of their fields and actively engaged in analysis to allow them to deliver superior information to their educating. Our state-of-the-art services embrace specialist laboratories, a public outreach centre, a specialist digital actuality centre, a rocket lab, flight simulators, renewable power lab, and three new labs associated to electrical, digital and robotics, in addition to a complicated design studio. For future scientists and engineers, this combines to create the final word real-life area for sensible studying. For educational professionals, this all provides as much as a really vibrant, thrilling atmosphere in one of many largest and most numerous STEM colleges within the sector.

The College of Constructed Surroundings and Geography

The College of Constructed Surroundings and Geography gives industry-focused, professionally acknowledged undergraduate and postgraduate programs with the long run expertise embedded to professionally succeed within the civil engineering, building, surveying, and geography-related environmental {industry} sectors.

We offer a multi-disciplinary vibrant studying atmosphere, exploring how we’re shaping the constructed atmosphere, which is sustainable, linked, good and resilient in assembly altering wants of the professions and local weather change challenges. Our schooling and analysis choices are underpinned by the newest applied sciences and strengthened by lively collaborations with {industry} leaders offering sensible expertise via placements in addition to academic partnerships.

Additional data

It is a full time, everlasting place with a aggressive beginning wage (grade 10) plus £6,000 every year head of division allowance.

The Head of Division side of the function is a 4-year time period, reverting to an Affiliate Professor substantive place on the finish of the 4 12 months time period.

Please apply on to Kingston College by clicking the ‘apply’ button and comply with the directions.

Purposes ought to encompass:

– a concise overlaying letter (ideally now not than two pages), addressing the standards within the Individual Specification;

– an up-to-date curriculum vitae;

– names and make contact with particulars of three referees (though referees will solely be approached on the remaining stage of the method, and solely together with your categorical permission).

For casual enquiries, please contact Robert Brunton , School PA/Assist Officer or Shannah Adams , School Operations Assist Supervisor.

The cut-off date for functions is 14 April 2024.

Timetable

– Shortlisting: w/c 15 April 2024

– Psychometric testing: w/c 29 April 2024

– Formal Interviews: w/c 6 and 13 Might 2024

If the interview dates pose an issue for you, please tell us about this on the time of software.

Deliver your true self, experience, and fervour to Kingston the place we’re persevering with to attempt to construct a college the place genuine inclusion and belonging is at its coronary heart. Each considered one of our workers and college students’ identities, backgrounds and numerous experiences makes us who we’re – so harness and embrace yours by making use of right now. We welcome functions from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities.

Candidates should be capable of reveal their eligibility to work within the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. The place required, this may increasingly embrace entry clearance or continued depart to stay beneath the Factors Primarily based Immigration Scheme. 

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