Assistant Professor in Strength and Conditioning

Job title:

Assistant Professor in Power and Conditioning

Firm

Heriot-Watt College

Job description

Job Description:Wage: Grade 8 (£45,585 – £56,021)Contract: Full-time (35 hours), Open-EndedThe total advantages bundle may be discovered right here:Interviews are anticipated to happen mid Might 2024.Detailed DescriptionHeriot-Watt College lately expanded its portfolio into sport training and lately launched a BSc (Hons) Sport and Train Science at its Edinburgh Campus which commenced in September 2022. In collaboration with Oriam, Scotland’s Nationwide Efficiency Centre, the launch of the BSc (Hons) Sport and Train Science is an thrilling alternative to develop an impressive, fashionable, and inclusive programme of instructing and analysis in Sport and Train Science. In consequence, we’re searching for to nominate an Assistant Professor in Power and Conditioning.You may be an enthusiastic and pleasant skilled with confirmed communication and interpersonal abilities coupled with a dedication to offering an enriching pupil expertise, permitting college students to develop the important thing abilities wanted as a contemporary Sport and Train Scientist. A longtime nationwide profile within the area of energy and conditioning with a ardour for instructing and training on related programmes is crucial. To achieve success you’ll additional enrich our college students’ expertise via your experience and topic data as evidenced via your {qualifications} and expertise.One of many major goals of the Sport and Train Science workforce is to develop industry-changing Sport and Train Science graduates via prime quality instructing that features utilising expertise to ship from the laboratory to the sphere and guaranteeing combine approaches all through Undergraduate and Postgraduate provision. We’re additionally aiming to undertake internationally famend analysis in Sport and Train Science, from fundamental science to translational and industry-changing initiatives.Key Duties & Duties:Pioneering Schooling:

• Develop and ship prime quality utilized programs in keeping with your experience to allow our college students to develop into wonderful practitioners, and help with embedding {of professional} {qualifications}, to make sure our college students are ‘Future Made’;
• Undertake steady skilled improvement each via the College and externally to stay up-to-date with present studying and instructing apply and exterior influencers in our sector to supply course and management;
• Share greatest apply in studying and instructing methodologies, working with colleagues to develop scholarly debate and the dissemination of excellence to advance the curriculum to be future targeted and challenge-led;
• Supervise undergraduate and postgraduate college students’ work and take accountability for coping with referred points concerning college students inside their very own instructional programmes.

Analysis:

• To pursue utilized analysis of internationally recognised significance and high quality that can make a big contribution to the College’s submission to Future Analysis Excellence Framework workouts, improve the worldwide profile of the College and contribute to the event of its personal communities of analysis;
• Disseminate analysis via high-quality journal publications and papers, shows at conferences, and related stakeholder occasions;
• Mentor and coach analysis college students, with explicit give attention to offering alternatives for creating their careers as interdisciplinary, collaborative, and efficient researchers.

Collaboration and Management:

• Develop your management throughout the BSc (Hons) Sport and Train Science programme to make sure wonderful ranges of pupil engagement, retention and outcomes;
• Collaborate with colleagues to make sure a constant, efficient, and high-quality supply of instructing and analysis, in keeping with the strategic goals of EGIS, in addition to the broader College;
• Characterize EGIS with integrity in an expert capability at nationwide and worldwide conferences, with industrial companions, in skilled societies, and so on.

Schooling, {Qualifications} and Expertise (i.e. Individual Specification)The profitable applicant will fulfill the next necessities:Important standards:

• PhD (or equal skilled expertise) within the space of Power and Conditioning;
• UKSCA Accreditation;
• A transparent and evidenced private analysis technique, with the potential to draw analysis funding attracting exterior analysis funding, with publications in worldwide journals and presenting at conferences, OR a transparent and evidenced private scholarly technique, with the potential to develop sport and train science curriculum to reinforce utilized, industry-relevant abilities via our academic provision;
• Means to ship progressive instructing, along with expertise of instructing in the next training surroundings ;
• Emotional intelligence, with a demonstrable collegiate angle and confirmed interpersonal abilities.

Fascinating standards:

• UKSCA Coach Assessor certified;
• Membership of applicable skilled and/or educational societies ;
• Means to attract on industrial {and professional} networks to develop and improve the instructing and analysis portfolio.

About Heriot Watt CollegeHeriot-Watt College has established a fame for world-class instructing and modern, related analysis, which has made it one of many prime UK universities for innovation, enterprise and {industry}.Heriot-Watt College has 5 campuses: three within the UK (Edinburgh, Scottish Borders and Orkney), one in Dubai and one in Malaysia. The College gives a extremely distinctive vary of diploma programmes within the specialist areas of science, engineering, design, enterprise and languages. Heriot-Watt can be Scotland’s most worldwide college, boasting the most important worldwide pupil cohort.About our WorkforceThe College of Vitality, Geoscience, Infrastructure and SocietyThe College of Vitality, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society is without doubt one of the UK’s main establishments for multidisciplinary analysis and instructing in areas important to financial improvement and societal fairness. We goal to realize excellence within the instructing of the core disciplines that contribute to a sustainable, useful resource and power environment friendly society and are dedicated to enterprise excessive worth, excessive affect analysis and data switch in subjects of relevance to international challenges.Institute of Life & Earth SciencesThe Institute of Life and Earth Sciences (ILES) undertakes multidisciplinary analysis within the areas of Surroundings and Bioscience, in addition to Sport and Train Science, primarily based each in Edinburgh (together with employees primarily based within the Lyell Centre) and on the Worldwide Centre for Island Expertise (ICIT) within the Orkney Isles. ICIT is internationally recognised for analysis, coaching and consultancy in renewable power, marine science and environmental assets. Our work inside ILES focuses on life sciences in its broadest sense from cells to ecosystems, together with bodily geography and sport and train science, instructing and researching on how techniques work, how they could be altering and find out how to handle the planet sustainably. Additional data may be obtained at –Learn how to ApplyFunctions may be submitted as much as midnight (UK time) on Friday 1st Might 2024Interviews are anticipated to happen mid Might 2024.Candidates should make their submission through the Heriot-Watt on-line recruitment system and embrace: (1) cowl letter describing their curiosity and suitability for the publish; (2) full CV that features the checklist of publications (3) analysis/scholarly and instructing statements, displaying their strengths in a number of of the areas above.Casual enquiries ought to be directed to Dr Mark Ross ( ).At Heriot-Watt we’re keen about our values and look to them to attach our folks globally and to assist us collaborate and have a good time our success via working collectively. Our analysis programmes can ship actual world affect which is achieved via the range of our worldwide neighborhood and the popularity of inventive expertise that connects our international workforce.Our flourishing neighborhood provides you with the liberty to problem and to carry your enterprising thoughts and to assist our companions with options that may be utilized now and sooner or later. Be a part of us and Heriot Watt will offer you a platform to thrive and work in a approach that additionally helps you reside your life in steadiness with well-being and inclusiveness on the coronary heart of our international neighborhood.Heriot-Watt College is dedicated to securing equality of alternative in employment and to the creation of an surroundings through which people are chosen, educated, promoted, appraised and in any other case handled on the only real foundation of their related deserves and skills. Equality and variety are all about maximising potential and making a tradition of inclusion for all.Heriot-Watt College values range throughout our College neighborhood and welcomes functions from all sectors of society, significantly from underrepresented teams. For extra data, please see our web site and in addition our award-winning work in Incapacity Inclusive Science Careers .

Anticipated wage

£45585 – 56021 per 12 months

Location

Edinburgh – Midlothian

Job date

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 04:47:47 GMT

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