Lecturer in Aviation Management

Working in the School of Future Transport Engineering, you will be committed to contributing to our continued success. You will join a School already recognised for its high-quality and real-world teaching, state of the art activity-led facilities and an approach guided by and focused on industry. You will deliver and develop courses which foster a first-class educational experience while nurturing and producing industry-ready graduates.

The School values forward thinking, student-centred learning experience and well-developed industry relationships while embracing different cultures, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences of our students, colleagues and partners to create opportunities for all. As result, we are currently ranked 7th in the Guardian University Guide 2022 for our courses in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive, Aerospace and Manufacturing. As a new member of staff, you will be joining a global institution at the forefront of teaching and innovation achieving several awards including the Gold Teaching Excellence Framework in 2017 and this year’s Queen’s Award for Enterprise and Innovation.

Following internal promotion, an opportunity has arisen to join the School of Future Transport Engineering as a Lecturer in Aviation Management.

The Ideal Candidate

The successful applicant will contribute teaching on our CILT accredited BSc Aviation Management and MSc Air Transport Management degree courses.

We are especially interested in applicants with appropriate academic or industrial experience in any of the following areas –

• Safety, Security & Emergency Planning
• Cargo and Logistics Management
• Customer Service Operations

Project Management experience or qualifications (or a willingness to obtain these) with a view to teaching these skills within the aviation course portfolio may also be advantageous.

You will also supervise dissertations and students on industrial placement.

Having achieved excellent student satisfaction scores, we are looking for colleagues who share our commitment to delivering an excellent learning experience and preparing graduates ready to contribute to the global recovery and growth of the global air transport sector.

You will need to share our passion for delivering a positive student experience that puts excellence in teaching and learning at the heart of everything we do and will be able to demonstrate significant knowledge in your area of specialisation. You will be expected to undertake curriculum development, design and delivery of teaching that is engaging, innovative and responsive, that achieves excellent student learning outcomes. You must be willing to work flexibly to promote and support international partnerships, as well as potentially deliver teaching onsite at one of our international partners.

This position is a teaching focused post that will attract candidates that wish to focus on pedagogic practice, curriculum development and course management. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to conduct relevant commercial activity. 

The candidate should be qualified to PhD level in a relevant subject area or have comparable industrial experience.  Experience of working in professional educational practice/consultancy projects, as well as experience of working on applied research projects, will be advantageous. 

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