Job Description

Job reference: SAE-022847

Salary: \xc2\xa335,308-\xc2\xa343,155

Faculty/organisational unit: Science and Engineering

Location: Oxford Road

Employment type: Permanent

Division/team: Sir Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials

Hours per week: 35

Closing date: 27/08/2023

Contract duration: 48

School/directorate: FSE Research Institutes

Background

The Henry Royce Institute (Royce) is an EPSRC-funded national institute. With its Hub at The University of Manchester, Royce has spokes at nine Partner and Associate organisations: the Universities of Sheffield, Leeds, Liverpool, Cambridge, Cranfield, Oxford, and Imperial College London, as well as at the UK Atomic Energy Authority and National Nuclear Laboratory. Royce, driven by a vision of \'advanced materials for a sustainable society\', supports the UK in growing its world-leading research and innovation through:

Enabling national materials research, collaboration, fore-sighting, and strategy: Working to shape our materials research landscape by convening and connecting the UK materials community, engaging with government and policymakers, and bridging industrial sectors to ensure maximum impact from the UK\'s research endeavour.

Providing access to world-leading facilities and research expertise: Providing fast and flexible access for the UK research community to cutting-edge equipment and highly skilled technical staff to ensure high-impact research and innovation as an outcome

Catalysing industrial collaboration and accelerating translation: Implementing programmes and interventions that meet the challenges of advanced materials translation throughout the value chain, from start-ups to SMEs and corporates

Fostering materials science skills development, innovation training and outreach: Providing professional development to empower the next generation of materials researchers and leaders with technical and business skills through a comprehensive support and outreach programme

Overall purpose of the role:

Royce is seeking a Technical Skills Training Manager to help deliver on the Institute\'s strategic plan for scientific training and technical skills. The post holder will be responsible for developing and delivering training content in collaboration with researchers, experimental scientists, and technical staff across the institute\'s partners and external stakeholders. Comprising of knowledge-sharing courses, webinars, practical skills workshops, and online materials, the programme will align with Royce\'s mission pillars and meet the long-term needs of the materials science community across academia, SMEs, RTOs, and industry.

The post holder will be a proactive, skilled, organised, and motivated individual; ideally with a background in materials science and engineering, or with a background in an adjacent scientific field. Previous experience in the delivery of training courses at post-graduate level, or within a continuing professional development environment, would be a great asset in the role.

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