Early Career Academic, Zero Carbon

Job particulars

Accountable to

Head of Self-discipline

Location

All Derby Websites

Wage

£36,024 every year

Cut-off date

Sunday 21 April 2024

Contract kind

Fastened time period contract 12 months

Publish kind

Full-time

Adaptive working kind

Onsite
This function shall be based mostly on web site, primarily within the named location.

Reference

0140-24

In regards to the function

We have now one easy promise – to make a optimistic affect. By way of our ground-breaking analysis, instructing excellence and dedication to sustainable residing, we’re altering lives for the higher.  

The College of Derby is a contemporary college with a contemporary outlook. All the pieces we do is pushed by delivering excellence and alternatives for our college students, our workers and our area.  

We have now dedicated to nurture and encourage analysis excellence throughout all our disciplines and profession levels, recognising the sturdy hyperlink between wonderful analysis and a very good scholar expertise.   

We have now a few of the greatest college amenities within the UK and obtain excellent outcomes for our instructing and analysis and have been awarded Gold within the prestigious Instructing Excellence Framework (TEF) 2023 – making it one of many prime universities within the nation recognised for its excellent scholar expertise and scholar outcomes.   

We have now entered a brand new and thrilling period on the College, making investments in our college students, workers and analysis infrastructure to assist us obtain our total purpose of manufacturing analysis that’s excessive in high quality and impacts, nationwide and internationally. This ensures that data created at our College informs our curriculum and helps {industry}, coverage makers, worldwide companions and the broader analysis neighborhood.  

Our 2021 Analysis Excellence Framework (REF) submission confirmed vital will increase in our metrics, supported by a devoted analysis and data alternate workplace and enhanced governance processes.  Our doctoral cohort has elevated by 63.4% since 2014 and we now have over 450 doctoral college students. Funding in our analysis amenities has continued at tempo and in March 2022 we opened our Facility for Omics Analysis in Metabolism (FORM). Our Information Change Framework (KEF) consequence positioned us within the prime 10% for working with enterprise. Our Analysis Council funding and collaborative analysis revenue, from funders equivalent to Innovate UK continues to rise, participating our lecturers with each multinationals in addition to small and medium measurement enterprises.   

It’s an thrilling time to be becoming a member of us and to play a job in supporting the College’s ambitions as we start our preparations for REF 2029. The College, pleased with its achievements in rising Innovation and Analysis, is embarking on the subsequent step change to drive tutorial efficiency. We’re focussing our funding into 3 areas of educational excellence:   

• Zero Carbon
• Enterprise Financial and Social Coverage
• Public Providers

Our Early Profession Tutorial (ECA) appointments are a pivotal alternative for our College to develop these themes with prime quality expertise and data. These one yr postdoctoral positions shall be awarded to excellent people who’ve the potential to progress to everlasting tutorial roles on the College of Derby.  

As an ECA, you’ll contribute to the work of the Faculties, participating in a full tutorial function together with high-quality instructing and enhancing our analysis profile by producing high-quality publications; contributing to a vibrant, supportive and collaborative analysis surroundings; and impacting positively on coverage, follow and debate inside your space. 

The roles lower throughout conventional structural boundaries and also you’ll work throughout disciplines to deal with actual world challenges, while being supported to develop your analysis and instructing expertise by way of a devoted growth plan.  Candidates are anticipated to have accomplished their PhD or be pending award of their doctorate.  

The meant begin date for the ECA programme is ninth September 2024. 

In regards to the Zero Carbon Theme 

The College is adopting a cross disciplinary method to zero carbon and the clear progress agenda. Analysis has knowledgeable regional coverage and enterprise help tasks, along with serving to pro-environmental companies discover alternative within the inexperienced economic system. Collaboration between engineering, enterprise, and environmental researchers has led to product, course of, and coverage impacts at regional, nationwide and worldwide ranges. Our future strategic course builds upon our repute in zero carbon applied sciences and purposes, constructing on our analysis excellence in renewable vitality technology and storage, hydrogen storage, highway and rail transport, and nature-based options.   

What you possibly can anticipate from us 

Be a part of us for rewarding begin you to your Tutorial Profession, as an Early Years Tutorial you may be given an thrilling induction programme to set you up for achievement. It will embrace deep dive workshops on particular studying, instructing and analysis parts in addition to enterprise engagement and networking alternatives with our current Early Profession Analysis Groups. You may be supplied with a talented Mentor to information you thru your first yr with us in addition to being supported together with your analysis and instructing college students. We like to present tasks early on as a part of the Early Profession Tutorial Scheme to supply alternatives so that you can present your management and experience whether or not this be lecturing, lesson planning or broadening data with analysis.   

Advantages 

• Beneficiant annual depart entitlement of 35 days + financial institution holidays + 4 days concessionary depart
• Teaching and growth in function
• Trainer’s Pension Scheme
• Entry to employer-funded Non-public Well being Insurance coverage with BUPA
• Suite of holistic wellbeing advantages and help together with family-friendly insurance policies, beneficiant sick pay provision, and complete Worker Help Programme
• Entry to number of workers reductions at excessive road retailers
• Discounted onsite gymnasium
• Discounted entry to Devonshire Spa

Able to make a distinction? 

In case you’re trying to kick-start your tutorial profession in an encouraging and rewarding organisation, we’d love to listen to from you. 

Key contacts 

For additional info and casual enquiries relating to the function, please contact Professor Chris Sansom, Professor of Concentrating Photo voltaic Energy and Theme Lead, Zero Carbon by way of c.sansom@derby.ac.uk  

For enquiries relating to your utility and for sponsorship eligibility, please contact the recruitment staff on [email protected] . 

 

Principal accountabilities

Have interaction in prime quality particular person analysis in a subject that’s in keeping with one of many six areas of educational excellence for the College.

Collaborate each internally and externally to determine innovation and analysis alternatives related to the world of educational excellence and contribute to efficient cross School/College working.

Maintain and improve the repute of the College by publishing in acceptable high-quality journals and presenting at scholarly actions equivalent to workshops, conferences and different comparable occasions.

Develop and keep contacts and relationship with related skilled, analysis and industrial organisations.

Appeal to funding by participating in writing bids for externally funded innovation and analysis tasks.

Help the event of the PhD neighborhood and contribute to PhD supervision.

Be sure that data from analysis and scholarly actions informs and enhances studying and instructing, in addition to extending it to acceptable exterior actions equivalent to data switch actions.

Undertake inspiring and progressive instructing and evaluation within the related topic space and ship an excellent scholar expertise.

Help cross college exercise equivalent to advertising and scholar recruitment as required.

Contribute to the event of the topic space and associated programmes of examine.

Present an acceptable stage of pastoral care to college students, referring when essential to different colleagues or companies that may present additional help.

Undertake related administrative duties in areas equivalent to admissions, timetabling, examinations and evaluation of progress and scholar attendance.

Observe and implement College insurance policies and procedures.

Carry out another duties commensurate with the job grade as moderately required infrequently.

There may also be a requirement to attend coaching programs in instructing strategies and course design; this can be waived by exception if an current related qualification equivalent to a PGCHE is held. The put up holder shall be required to plan and evaluation their very own method to instructing, and to oversee analysis tasks at Masters stage.

Individual specification
Important Standards
{Qualifications}

• PhD (or submitted and awaiting examination)
• Honours diploma or equal

Expertise

• Expertise of endeavor prime quality innovation and/or analysis in a self-discipline aligned to the tutorial themes.
• Expertise of producing high-quality analysis outputs (both in preparation or revealed).
• Recognised authority in your individual self-discipline and ready contribute to the event of recent data and understanding inside the subject.
• Expertise of working collaboratively and independently throughout disciplines to deal with analysis and innovation challenges.

Abilities, data & talents

• Demonstrable expertise and data in a number of space carefully associated to tutorial themes.
• Capable of show potential to draw analysis funding.
• Capable of talk advanced and conceptual concepts to a variety of teams.
• Glorious written and oral communication expertise together with networking and relationship constructing expertise each throughout the College and externally.
• Capable of show each impartial self-management and staff working.
• An acceptable stage of digital functionality and aptitude with sensible expertise of purposes to help scholar studying.
• Capable of work with competing priorities and to tight deadlines.
• Demonstrates competences, core behaviours and supplementary behaviours that help and promote the College’s core values.
• Dedicated to continuous enhancement and a high-quality scholar expertise.
• Dedicated to a high-performance tradition, fostering steady enchancment and driving high quality.

Enterprise necessities

• Capable of take a versatile method to work.
• Journey between websites and sometimes abroad for analysis or instructing.
• Some night and occasional weekend instructing.
• Attendance at Open Days, Commencement, College occasions and so forth.
• A dedication to personal skilled growth and to participating absolutely with the ECA growth scheme.

Fascinating Standards
Expertise

• Creating worldwide profile of analysis and scholarly exercise.
• Expertise of bidding for and acquiring exterior analysis funding.
• Expertise of efficiently making use of self-discipline to revenue technology actions, together with consultancy, industry-based utilized analysis and KTPs.

Advantages

In addition to aggressive pay scales, we provide beneficiant vacation entitlement. We additionally supply alternatives for additional wage development based mostly on efficiency, and the chance to hitch a contributory pension scheme.

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The way to apply

You’ll be able to apply by submitting a web-based utility. After you have signed in or registered with us it is possible for you to to start your utility. If you’re creating an account for the primary time, please make sure you present an electronic mail deal with that you just entry repeatedly as this shall be our important technique of contacting you relating to your utility.

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In case you require any help, together with the availability of any documentation in another format, please contact the Recruitment staff at [email protected] .

Please observe all purposes should be submitted on-line by Midnight GMT on the time limit of the emptiness.

Necessary info

Purposes from job seekers who require sponsorship to work within the UK are welcome and shall be thought-about alongside all different purposes.

While this function is eligible for sponsorship below the Expert Employee Route, we suggest that you just assess your particular person eligibility earlier than making use of for this place.

Go to https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa for extra info.

To be eligible for sponsorship it’s essential to present proof that you just maintain all important {qualifications} listed on the job description. Please observe, equal expertise won’t be accepted as proof of the important {qualifications}.

What’s Adaptive Working?

Adaptive working is about enabling a high-performing, versatile, and responsive work tradition the place the place, time, and method of working are tailor-made to the precise work exercise. This method ensures that the working surroundings, together with each bodily and social environment, helps workers to carry out at their greatest and meet the college’s evolving wants.

As well as, adaptive working includes deliberately designing workspaces to help a variety of actions and disciplines, offering the fitting surroundings for significant in-person connections and efficient collaboration. This consists of making certain that workers have entry to the required tools and sources from their first day on the college.

Adaptive working encompasses totally different modes of working equivalent to site-based, distant or hybrid working. It’s a broad framework inside which all workers can function successfully in response to their function.

Fairness, range and inclusion

The College of Derby is dedicated to selling fairness, range and inclusion. Nonetheless you determine, we actively rejoice the data, expertise and abilities every individual brings. Our college students come from a variety of backgrounds; due to this fact we’re significantly to listen to from candidates who will assist our leaders and groups be extra reflective of our scholar inhabitants.

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Why be a part of Derby?

Difficult, attention-grabbing and always altering, the College of Derby is a unprecedented place to be taught and an extremely rewarding place to work.

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