We are looking for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer to help deliver undergraduate and postgraduate Acoustics and Building Services Engineering courses. The role will include leading a new Apprenticeship course, the Acoustics Technician Apprenticeship at Level 4.
About you
You should have the following skills/experience/attitude qualities:
Exciting work you will do
This is a new role, which will help to deliver (for the first time) an acoustic apprenticeship programme in the UK and thus, there will be a scope to be creative with the delivery. There will be an opportunity to be involved in research within the reputable and leading (in the field) Acoustics Research Group that has worked on many projects and partners including but not limited to: architectural acoustics - Royal Opera House, speech intelligibility - London Underground, music and hearing - Royal Academy of Music, environmental noise assessment - London Heliport and Drones and material science-metamaterials.
The skills and experience you will need to be successful
The successful candidate will be qualified in Acoustics, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or Building Services Engineering discipline at undergraduate level and hold a doctoral degree related to Acoustics. The candidate should be a member of a relevant professional body and preferably hold an IEng or CEng status.
Experience of teaching in Higher Education would be beneficial as would knowledge of acoustic industries and writing research bids. The role would require taking on management responsibility for the Apprenticeship course and hence experience of running a course would be highly beneficial.
Details about the role and How to apply
This is a full-time permanent academic position starting in the academic year 2021/22.
Please apply using the online application form and also send a copy of your CV to bea@lsbu.ac.uk, quoting REQ5952. Please note that CVs will not be considered unless the application form has also been completed.
For any further information on the role, please contact the Recruiting Manager, Dr Alex Paurine, via email at paurina2@lsbu.ac.uk.
Interview and assessment process
It is expected that the interview and assessment will be held during week commencing 19th July 2021.
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Please Note: The Job Reference number for this post is REQ5952
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Employment Visa: Under the UK Governments PSB scheme this role meets the criteria to be sponsored by LSBU for a Skilled Worker Route (SWR) application.
Please be advised that currently LSBU will only support the Certificate of Sponsorship for any employment visas and will not support the payment of the employment visa for the offered candidate and/or dependants.
During the unprecedented situation of Corona Virus (COVID-19), we want to provide some assurance that where possible we are continuing with recruitment to our vacancies and look forward to you applying. Emails will be used to correspond with applicants, please ensure that you use an email account that you regularly monitor. We have provisions to conduct interviews remotely and will direct you to the relevant video interviewing system via email.
