Head of Department & Professor

Job title:

Head of Division & Professor

Firm

College of Strathclyde

Job description

Wage: The profitable candidate shall be appointed to the Educational Skilled / Professorial scale for the substantive put up. As well as, a Head of Division allowance shall be payable at some point of appointment as Head of Division.

FTE: 1 (35 hours/week)

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

Closing Date: 28 April 2024

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

Strathclyde is house to world-class teachers, from nearly 100 completely different nations, who’re provided profession alternatives that are sector main. We work collectively to make our College a dynamic and modern place to work. Our analysis adjustments folks’s lives as we work with enterprise, trade and authorities to search out the options to the issues which face at this time’s society. We’re dedicated to helpful studying and to being a socially inclusive establishment and this guides the best way 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 this time 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:

Individuals-oriented: dedicated to our employees 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 affect and inspiring inventive considering and new concepts.

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

Formidable: for our establishment, employees 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 formidable, collaborative, and worldwide, recognising that trendy challenges are complicated, and that approaches to tackling these challenges sometimes require technical, societal, coverage and enterprise insights, working in shut participation with the communities concerned. This ‘people-oriented’ strategy to training, analysis and innovation, along with an unbroken 200-year dedication to ‘helpful studying’, makes Strathclyde a particular voice in Increased Schooling.

The Division of Civil and Environmental Engineering is a dynamic, multidisciplinary setting recognized 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 group. Our analysis has international affect and we’re persevering with to speculate considerably in leading edge gear to additional bolster our state-of-the-art laboratories, having doubled our trade analysis earnings up to now 4 years. We’re dedicated to delivering an impressive 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, now we have an modern vary of versatile studying programmes, together with a wonderful Graduate Apprenticeship diploma, well-liked half time/distance studying choices at MSc degree and flourishing training programmes with abroad companions.

We’re looking for a person with a collaborative and collegiate strategy to management for the function of Head of the Division of Civil and Environmental Engineering on the College of Strathclyde. You’ll reveal a observe file of emotionally clever management and shall be dedicated to supporting employees and college students by guaranteeing they’re given the alternatives and mechanisms essential to develop and thrive. The profitable candidate could have a powerful observe file 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 abilities to assist our dynamic, multidisciplinary and pleasant analysis setting, and to champion our modern 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 Web Zero, Engineering for Climatic and Non-Climatic hazards and Improvements in Structural Engineering.

You can be an internationally recognised educational chief with a related first diploma and a PhD (or equal skilled qualification), along with a considerable observe file in analysis, instructing and data change, together with administration and management roles. You can be a wonderful communicator, able to inspiring employees and college students and driving ahead the Division’s ambitions and strategic goals throughout its full vary of actions.

Appointment as Head of Division shall be for a fixed-term interval of three years initially and additionally, you will be appointed to an open-ended substantive put up within the Division at a senior degree, in accordance together with your {qualifications}, standing and expertise. A sign of what could be anticipated on the numerous ranges of our Educational Skilled employees classes of our Educational Skilled employees classes could be discovered right here: .

For appointment at Professorial degree: Topic to the Constitution and Statutes and Ordinances and Rules of the College, as Professor you may be accountable to the Courtroom of the College by means of the Principal for offering management in your educational 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 put up could be directed to Sophie Lloyd, Government Officer, at sophie.lloyd@strath.ac.uk.

Anticipated wage

Location

United Kingdom

Job date

Sat, 16 Mar 2024 05:30:28 GMT

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