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Assistant Professor in Engineering Project Management

Coventry University - Faculty of Engineering, Environment & Computing (EEC)

Location: Coventry
Salary: £42,155 to £60,027
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed On: 24th March 2023
Closes: 20th April 2023
Job Ref: REQ010674

Our strategy at Coventry University continues our drive to provide a high-quality, inclusive, and empowering global education to anyone who can benefit from it. It maintains our belief that, through education, people are empowered to grow and advance in society. We all want to make a difference, we would like you to join us.

Working in the School of Mechanical Engineering, you will be committed to contributing to our continued success. You will join a School 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 in the top 10 of the Guardian University Guide 2023 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.

We are looking for a candidate who is passionate about Project Management specifically in Engineering and wishes to significantly contribute to the development and the delivery of our courses.  The candidate will typically hold certification such as PRINCE2 (Foundation and Practitioner) and have a practical background in Agile Project Management. The role requires the candidate to have experience of applying project management philosophies, principles, tools and techniques as well as developing and managing project information and systems within  relevant engineering sectors. Whilst not totally essential membership of the Association for Project Management (APM) would be extremely advantageous.

This post is a teaching centred role where you will focus on modules at different academic levels, including undergraduate, post-graduate and industry students.

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, being able to demonstrate significant knowledge in your area of specialisation. You will have the opportunity to develop curriculum and design the delivery of teaching so that it is engaging, innovative and responsive.  Your drive will be to achieve excellent student learning outcomes.

You will have either

  • PhD in a relevant subject, or
  • relevant MSc and extensive relevant industrial experience at a senior level

Professional Body membership is advantageous and experience of working in professional educational practice/consultancy projects/leading industrial continuous improvement education will also be advantageous.

This position is a teaching focused post that will appeal to you by allowing you to focus on pedagogic practice and curriculum design.

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