Head of Department and Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

22 Mar 2024
Job Data

Organisation/Firm

UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE

Analysis Discipline

Engineering

Researcher Profile

Recognised Researcher (R2)
First Stage Researcher (R1)

Nation

United Kingdom

Software Deadline

20 Apr 2024 – 00:00 (UTC)

Sort of Contract

Different

Job Standing

Full-time

Is the job funded via the EU Analysis Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Is the Job associated to workers place inside a Analysis Infrastructure?

No

Supply Description

Wage: The profitable candidate can be appointed to the Tutorial Skilled / Professorial scale for the substantive publish. As well as, a Head of Division allowance can be payable during appointment as Head of Division.

FTE: 1 (35 hours/week)

Time period: Initially for 3 years as Head of Division, with the potential for a second time period in workplace. Operating in parallel with this appointment, you’ll maintain a substantive, open–ended, Tutorial Skilled publish.

Closing Date: 28 April 2024

As a number one worldwide College, we satisfaction ourselves in recruiting one of the best tutorial {and professional} workers to assist our ground-breaking, impactful analysis, and our first-class scholar expertise.

Strathclyde is house to world-class teachers, from virtually 100 totally different international locations, who’re supplied profession alternatives that are sector main. We work collectively to make our College a dynamic and progressive place to work. Our analysis modifications individuals’s lives as we work with enterprise, business and authorities to search out the options to the issues which face at present’s society. We’re dedicated to helpful studying and to being a socially inclusive establishment and this guides the way in which we ship our instructing, studying and analysis.

The College was based as ‘A Place of Helpful Studying’ in 1796 and this stays a mission that we ship at present as a Main Worldwide Technological College that’s socially progressive. Our Values mirror who we’re and underpin our distinctive and genuine methods of working. We’re:

Folks-oriented: dedicated to our workers and college students, offering alternatives and investing of their growth.

Daring: assured and difficult about what we do and supportive of acceptable and managed threat in our decision-making.

Revolutionary: targeted on discovering and making use of data with impression and inspiring artistic pondering and new concepts.

Collaborative: working collectively, internally and externally, with integrity and in an open, respectful approach.

Formidable: for our establishment, workers and college students in addition to supporting the ambitions of our companions. 

As a socially progressive establishment, we pioneer applied sciences not only for their very own sake, however as a result of they assist enhance society economically, in its well being, high quality of life and its creativity, enriching us in each sense. Our strategy is bold, collaborative, and worldwide, recognising that fashionable challenges are advanced, and that approaches to tackling these challenges usually require technical, societal, coverage and enterprise insights, working in shut participation with the communities concerned. This ‘people-oriented’ strategy to schooling, analysis and innovation, along with an unbroken 200-year dedication to ‘helpful studying’, makes Strathclyde a particular voice in Increased Training.

The Division of Civil and Environmental Engineering is a dynamic, multidisciplinary setting identified for its pleasant and supportive analysis and instructing tradition. We worth analysis and instructing excellence and the willingness to assist others and work as a workforce. Our analysis has world impression and we’re persevering with to take a position considerably in leading edge gear to additional bolster our state-of-the-art laboratories, having doubled our business analysis earnings up to now 4 years.  We’re dedicated to delivering an excellent scholar expertise and have been ranked third within the UK for Civil Engineering within the Guardian League Desk 2024.  Along with our robust core undergraduate and postgraduate levels, we now have an progressive vary of versatile studying programmes, together with a superb Graduate Apprenticeship diploma, common half time/distance studying choices at MSc stage and flourishing schooling programmes with abroad companions.

We’re searching for a person with a collaborative and collegiate strategy to management for the position of Head of the Division of Civil and Environmental Engineering on the College of Strathclyde. You’ll exhibit a monitor document of emotionally clever management and can be dedicated to supporting workers and college students by making certain they’re given the alternatives and mechanisms essential to develop and thrive.  The profitable candidate can have a robust monitor document in analysis and have an energetic dedication to equality, range and inclusion, thus serving to to maintain our work on this space as mirrored in our departmental Athena Swan Gold award for gender equality. You’ll have a versatile vary of management expertise to assist our dynamic, multidisciplinary and pleasant analysis setting, and to champion our progressive instructing practises that allow college students from a variety of backgrounds to flourish.

Candidates from any civil and environmental engineering aligned self-discipline are inspired to use. We notably welcome candidates that may strengthen our analysis round Engineering for Internet Zero, Engineering for Climatic and Non-Climatic hazards and Improvements in Structural Engineering.

You’ll be an internationally recognised tutorial chief with a related first diploma and a PhD (or equal skilled qualification), along with a considerable monitor document in analysis, instructing and data trade, together with administration and management roles.  You’ll be a superb communicator, able to inspiring workers and college students and driving ahead the Division’s ambitions and strategic goals throughout its full vary of actions.

Appointment as Head of Division can be for a fixed-term interval of three years initially and additionally, you will be appointed to an open-ended substantive publish within the Division at a senior stage, in accordance together with your {qualifications}, standing and expertise.  A sign of what could be anticipated on the varied ranges of our Tutorial Skilled workers classes of our Tutorial Skilled workers classes could be discovered right here: Profession Pathways .

For appointment at Professorial stage: Topic to the Constitution and Statutes and Ordinances and Laws of the College, as Professor you can be accountable to the Courtroom of the College via the Principal for offering management in your tutorial space and can report yearly on this. That is along with the accountability, which every Professor owes to his or her Head of Division.

Casual enquiries concerning the publish could be directed to Sophie Lloyd, Government Officer, at [email protected] .

Necessities
Extra Data
Work Location(s)

Variety of presents obtainable

1

Firm/Institute

UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE

Nation

United Kingdom

Metropolis

Glasgow

Geofield

The place to use

Web site

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/itemizing/367886/head-of-department-…

Contact

Metropolis

Glasgow

STATUS: EXPIRED