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Senior Lecturer and Course Director of Motorsport Education

Cranfield University - Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Location: Bedfordshire, Cranfield
Salary: £60,099 to £69,505 per annum with potential progression to £85,000 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed On: 13th March 2025
Closes: 31st March 2025
Job Ref: 5027

Full time starting salary is normally in the range of range of £60,099 to £69,505 per annum with potential progression to £85,000 per annum

Location: Cranfield, Bedfordshire 

We welcome applications from passionate and skilled individuals to join our team.

About the Role

This role will be to develop and manage the motorsport activity at Cranfield, from a teaching perspective with a particular focus on Motorsport engineering and management, including course marketing, promotion, management, and module delivery. 

There will also be the opportunity to develop research proposals and support our commercial clients who span the Motorsport and public funding opportunities.

This role will be a core element of the future strategy for the continued development of the motorsport education provision, to ensure it maintains its leading position in the sector. 

About You

This role would suit a highly professional individual who enjoys working in a rapidly evolving environment. There is considerable variety in the role with the opportunity to be innovative. AVEC provides a highly dynamic environment which must be agile to meet the demands of its clients, whose plans are often enhanced and adapted at short notice. This is a characteristic of the industrial sectors in which we operate and due to the culture of continuous improvement embedded within the Centre. The postholder would actively support this culture, developing our portfolio of projects associated with Motorsport Engineering which will add value to our numerous commercial relationships and our educational programmes. Winning new clients as well as retaining existing customers is key to our success. 

Additionally, the postholder will enjoy active participation in AVEC’s promotional activities including events and internal/external communications. The successful applicant will possess a very keen interest in vehicle technology and must enjoy adopting a hands-on and can-do attitude.

About Us

As a specialist postgraduate university, Cranfield’s world-class expertise, large-scale facilities and unrivalled industry partnerships are creating leaders in technology and management globally. Learn more about Cranfield and our unique impact here.

Our Values and Commitments

Our shared, stated values help to define who we are and underpin everything we do: Ambition; Impact; Respect; and Community. Find out more here.

We aim to create and maintain a culture in which everyone can work and study together and realise their full potential. We are a Disability Confident Employer and proud members of the Stonewall Diversity Champions Programme. We are committed to actively exploring flexible working options for each role and have been ranked in the Top 30 family friendly employers in the UK by the charity Working Families. Find out more about our key commitments to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Flexible Working here.

Working Arrangements

Collaborating and connecting are integral to so much of what we do. Our Working Arrangements Framework provides many staff with the opportunity to flexibly combine on-site and remote working, where job roles allow, balancing the needs of our community of staff, students, clients and partners.

How to apply                                     

For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Dr Kim Blackburn on E: k.blackburn@cranfield.ac.uk or Prof James Brighton on E:  j.l.brighton@cranfield.ac.uk

To apply please click above 'Apply' Button. Please do not hesitate to contact us for further details on E: hrrecruitment@cranfield.ac.uk. Please quote reference number 5027.

Closing date for receipt of applications: 31 March 2025

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