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United Kingdom, Glasgow

Salary range: £23,160-£23,581 plus 5% shift allowance
FTE: 1.0 (35 hours per week)
Term: Open
Closing date: 12 January 2025

The University of Strathclyde is looking to appoint a Facilities Assistant to support our conferencing and events activity within the Technology & Innovation Centre (TIC). The Technology & Innovation Centre (TIC) is the University’s flagship research facility, opened by HM The Queen in July 2015. TIC is home to £11m of dedicated, flexible conferencing facilities, and has quickly established itself as one the country’s most popular venues for business events and academic meetings, hosting more than 600 events and 46,000 delegates in academic year 2023/24 alone. The venue won the Bronze award for UK Best Academic Venue at the Meetings & Incentive Travel awards magazine in March 2019; was named Best Academic Venue at the CHS Awards in June 2019; Best Scottish Venue & Events Team at the E Awards in 2023 and is a proud holder of Green Tourism Gold accreditation.

Working across the Conferencing & Events and TIC Operations teams, the Facilities Assistant will be central to day-to-day operations. The successful candidate should have experience of working in a similar environment, such as a conference centre, banqueting suite, hotel or performance venue. The role will involve:


	setting up and turning around rooms and foyer spaces to the layout required by clients
	storing equipment and furniture securely and appropriately when not in use
	receipt, delivery and safe handling of all materials relating to conferences and events taking place in the facility
	 supporting the movement of goods and furniture throughout the building
	assistance with wayfinding in the building and giving information on general use of the facilities
	ensuring that conferencing and event spaces are kept are well-maintained, tidy and presentable at all times, befitting to a five-star conference venue
	weekly fire safety and first aid checks for all conferencing and event space


As well as experience of providing a customer-focused support service, the successful candidate will have existing knowledge and a keen awareness of the importance and day-to-day application of key health and safety and manual handling procedures. This post will involve a high volume of manual handling on a daily basis, and the successful candidate will ideally hold a valid manual handling certificate and be able to contribute to the ongoing and consistent application and development of our safe working practices and standard operating procedures.

The post-holder will be required to work 35 hours per week, 5 days over 7. Shift patterns will depend on the needs of the business but will regularly include hours outside the normal working week, i.e. early mornings, evenings and weekends, throughout the year. A 5% premium will be added to the salary of the successful candidate to reflect this non-standard working pattern.

This post will be key to the delivery of a high level of customer service in TIC, and will require an individual interested in working with a wide range of people, problem solving and willing to be flexible in their approach to the work.

Interviews are scheduled to take place on 23 January 2025,

For informal enquiries, please contact Nicola Hyne, Conference Operations Manager at nicola.hyne@strath.ac.u

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University of Strathclyde

United Kingdom, Bedford

Faculty or Department: Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Based at: Cranfield Campus, Cranfield, Bedfordshire
Hours of work: 37
Contract type: Permanent
Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range of: Lecturer: £48,039 to £57,797 with potential progression to £70,000 per annum Senior Lecturer: £60,099 to £69,505 per annum with potential progression up to £85,000 per annum.
Apply by: 24/01/2025

Role Description

We welcome applications for this exciting permanent academic post from passionate Avionic specialists to join our highly successful Centre for Aeronautics Aircraft Design Group who want to make a significant impact in shaping, and the future direction, of our Centre’s portfolio of research, design and consultancy activities in the areas of avionic systems design and integration.

About the Role

You will be responsible for the development and delivery of high-quality teaching at postgraduate level in avionic systems design and integration and world leading research in areas of interest relevant to future aerospace industry requirements. Our academics are supported and encouraged to build their research teams and wider networks through successful research funding applications. The role is challenging and involves planning, integrating and coordinating diverse responsibilities in research, consultancy, project management, teaching and research student supervision.

About You

For this opportunity, we are looking for a suitably qualified and experienced individual, and actively encourage applicants from industry (aerospace) or those with related industry experience who wish to develop their career in an environment which provides a greater degree of personal autonomy with respect to research activities than is commonly found in an industrial environment. Experience of high impact, cross-disciplinary and industrially relevant research will be advantageous. At the Senior Lecturer level, we expect the candidate to provide leadership, such as in course management, business development, preparing large funding bids, acting as a Principal Investigator on large, funded research projects and managing collaborative networks of researchers linked with industry.

You will be educated to doctoral level in a relevant subject or have equivalent extensive industry experience. With a track record and solid experience of R&D related to Avionics design or systems together with evidence of collaborative working with other discipline specialists, you will also have the ability to develop business opportunities and attract income.

With excellent communication & influencing skills, you will ideally have teaching experience at postgraduate level and professional development courses. Highly computer literate, expertise in programming would be ideal.

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.

Aerospace is at the heart of Cranfield’s global research airport and is renowned throughout the world for its teaching and research in the fields of aviation and aerospace. Cranfield’s six centres are the powerhouses of our world class research, driving technological and conceptual advances in aeronautics, propulsion engineering, cyber-physical systems and intelligent automation. Through the strong links with industry built over the past 70 years, we focus on defining and delivering the aircraft, airport and airspace management of the future and are the only university in Europe with our own airport and runway. Cranfield Aerospace is internationally recognised as the first choice for research and education in all aspects of aerospace including aircraft, drones, urban air mobility and space.  Find out more about our work here About Aerospace.

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 Prof Howard Smith on Howard.smith@cranfield.ac.uk

Please do not hesitate to contact us for further details on E: hrrecruitment@cranfield.ac.uk. Please quote reference number 4983

Closing date for receipt of applications: 24 January 2025

This role may require you to have the ability to obtain UK Security Clearance


Cranfield University

Ireland, Maynooth

Department: School of Business
Vacancy ID: 032841
Closing Date: 12-Jan-2025

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled candidate to join our team as a Research Assistant, providing essential research and support to our dynamic and productive academic department. This role will involve significant contributions to the research teams working on the EU Horizon RIA project FLOW, focusing on the seamless development of user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) for an innovative EV mobile application in the renewable energy sector. The Research Assistant will play a key role in supporting the UI/UX development process, including contributing to the design and optimization of user-friendly features tailored to EV application users, assisting with iterative improvements to enhance functionality and performance, identifying and resolving bugs in the application, and aiding in the preparation of technical reports and documentation.

Research Assistant Level 1 (2024) Salary Scale: €31,962 p.a. (1 point)

Appointments will be made in accordance with public sector pay provisions.

Closing Date: 

23:30hrs (local Irish time) on Sunday, 12th January 2025

Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified above. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system.

Late applications will not be accepted.

Maynooth University is an equal opportunities employer

The position is subject to the Statutes of the University


Maynooth University

Finland, Helsingfors (Helsinki)

Lammi Biological Station is one of three research stations in the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences at the University of Helsinki, along with Tvärminne Zoological Station and Kilpisjärvi Biological Station. At the station, research, teaching and meeting activities are year-round. The station serves the entire university.

Lammi Biological Station of the University of Helsinki applies for its service:

LABORATORY TECHNICIAN

for fixed-term employment 3.3.-31.12.2025. Lammi Biological Station laboratory conducts water analyses from natural waters to the university's own long-term studies, research projects, course needs, and commissioned studies for all customers.

The laboratory technician's duties include preparation of water samples, laboratory analyses, result verification and delivery of analysis results, filing, compilation of billing information, and tasks related to quality control of the laboratory. Laboratory technicians are expected to have knowledge of the following analyses: nutrient analyses (P and N), pH, turbidity, conductivity, alkalinity, color, oxygen, CODM, chlorophyll. Advantage is the experience of carbon and cation determinations, or other laboratory special skills.

The task is suitable for a careful and accurate employee with experience in laboratory work. The task requires an independent and responsible approach. The position requires good Finnish or English language skills, as well as basic IT skills. The training of a laboratory analyst, for example, provides good preparation for the task. The work will start on 3 March 2025 or by agreement. Lammi Biological Station Laboratory is a peaceful working environment, where the responsibilities and job description of the announced position are clear. There is possibility for affordable accommodation options within the Lammi Biological Station.

The salary of the position is based on the salary system of the universities and the total salary is c. 2400-3200 €/month depending on the experience and education of the person to be selected.

External applicants, please submit your application using the University of Helsinki Recruitment System via the Apply Now button.

Applicants who have a helsinki.fi username and a valid employment contract, a grant researcher's contract or a visiting researcher's contract at the University of Helsinki are requested to leave their application by using the Employee Login button.

For more information, please contact Matti Kotakorpi, Research infrastructure chief, matti.kotakorpi@helsinki.fi, 050 357 3126 (accessible from 2.1.2025)

Announcement to be published: before Christmas

Application period ends: 19.1.2025


University of Helsinki

China, Ningbo

Join a unique British University in China.  The University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) was the first Sino-foreign university to open its doors in China. This award winning campus offering a UK style education has grown to establish a student body of over 9,000 in just 20 years.

The University of Nottingham Ningbo, China, a pioneer in Sino-foreign tertiary education, is rapidly expanding.  It is looking for ambitious, talented academics with a passion for teaching as well as research flair to join its team of science and engineering experts. UNNC is part of the University of Nottingham’s Global University, and offers unique teaching and research opportunities in a highly dynamic economy.

The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to teaching and curriculum development for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Chemical and Environmental Engineering. An important part of the role will be to teach students in Chemical and Environmental Engineering degree. Candidates should be qualified to deliver courses in the core curriculum of a Chemical and Environmental Engineering programme.

The person appointed will also be expected to conduct ongoing original research for publication and play a lead role in collaborative research projects The purpose of this role will be to lead and deliver individual and collaborative research and teaching in the area of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, and make a contribution to the direction of research programmes in the Department/School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering.

Candidates must have a PhD degree in Chemical Engineering or a closely related discipline, and excellent communication and presentation skills in English. Knowledge and experience of industrial design and process safety are desirable. Experience of supervising student research up to the PhD level, and experience of teaching, tutorial or laboratory work at undergraduate and/or postgraduate levels in an English speaking institution are essential.

Salary will be within the range of RMB 439,794 to RMB 579,126 per annum, depending on skills and experience (salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance). In addition, an attractive package including employment support allowance, schooling and insurance will be provided for international appointments.

The post will initially be offered on a fixed term contract with the University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China for a period of five years starting October 2024 or as soon as thereafter. This contract may be extended on an indefinite basis by mutual agreement.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to: Professor Philip Hall, Head of Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering – The University of Nottingham Ningbo China, email: Philip.Hall@nottingham.edu.cn Please note that applications sent directly to this email address will not be accepted.

Interviews will take place in Ningbo, China, if feasible – virtual interviews may also held. Please be advised that normally your references will be contacted prior to the interview.

For more details and/or to apply on-line please access: 

https://jobs.nottingham.edu.cn/job/184021/

If you are unable to apply on-line please contact the Human Resources Department, Tel: 86 574 8818 000 (Ext. 8404), Email: Job@nottingham.edu.cn.  


University of Nottingham Ningbo, China

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