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

College/Directorate

College of Engineering, Computing & the Surroundings

College/Operate

College of Constructed Surroundings & Geography

The Function

Kingston College is passionate in regards to the energy of a college schooling to remodel lives. We attempt for our employees and college students to be sought-after for his or her educational achievements and their capacity to form society and contribute to the economic system. We’re an inclusive college, and our bold City Home Technique drives our mission to boost college students’ life possibilities, assist the ambitions of employees 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 general Gold Educating Excellence Framework (TEF) ranking, we’re recognised for our dedication to prime quality instructing, offering an excellent pupil expertise and supporting our college students to attain profitable diploma outcomes. 

The College of Engineering, Computing & the Surroundings (ECE) is in search of 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 convey know-how into Geography and the Surroundings) to guide 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 mild of local weather change and different environmental points. Equally, there’s nice scope for analysis and data alternate to play its half on this journey. The College’s City Home Technique has set an bold progress goal when it comes to pupil recruitment for the subsequent three educational years. The College of Engineering, Computing and the Surroundings is properly positioned to contribute successfully to this goal. Therefore, we stay up for listening to from people with a profitable monitor report of pupil recruitment inside the larger Schooling Sector and specifically the Geography, Geology and the Surroundings disciplines.

The Individual

Candidates ought to have sturdy administration expertise inside the Greater Schooling sector within the UK, and a distinguished educational profile with relevance to the disciplines highlighted above. This implies understanding the traits and expectations of scholars, employers and {industry} alike. You’ll have an urge for food for innovation and the flexibility to stimulate and encourage employees in an efficient and productive means. As Head of Division, you’ll have the flexibility to contribute to the college’s targets and targets inside the context of our values highlighted within the College’s City Home technique (Progressive, Inclusive, Bold, and Enterprising). You’ll have a real-world understanding of the problems at play in topics related to this publish, in order to make sure there are replace thus far portfolio of programs and experience  to assist delivering the very best commonplace of schooling to college students in addition to encouraging collaboration and partnership with {industry}. The publish sits inside 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 College

There are few colleges throughout the UK college panorama as diverse of their scope because the College of Engineering, Computing & the Surroundings (ECE). We educate and analysis throughout a variety of topics, permitting for actual cross-discipline innovation and creativity.  Our lecturers are specialists – working on the forefront of their fields and actively engaged in analysis to allow them to convey superior data to their instructing. Our state-of-the-art services embrace specialist laboratories, a public outreach centre, a specialist digital actuality centre, a rocket lab, flight simulators, renewable vitality 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 last word real-life house for sensible studying. For tutorial professionals, this all provides as much as a really vibrant, thrilling surroundings 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 longer term expertise embedded to professionally succeed within the civil engineering, development, surveying, and geography-related environmental {industry} sectors.

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

Additional data

This can be a full time, everlasting place with a aggressive beginning wage (grade 10) plus £6,000 each year head of division allowance.

The Head of Division facet 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 masking letter (ideally not than two pages), addressing the standards within the Individual Specification;

– an up-to-date curriculum vitae;

– names and call particulars of three referees (though referees will solely be approached on the ultimate stage of the method, and solely along with your categorical permission).

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

The deadline for purposes 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 Could 2024

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

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

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

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