Senior Teaching Technician

Location: South Kensington Campus 

Job Summary

The Department of Life Sciences has seven teaching laboratories in two buildings providing practical classes for over 1000 undergraduate students on two degree streams and 2 Masters courses.

The post has three main purposes. To:

• To provide support for the day-to-day management of Life Sciences teaching laboratories and associated space used for teaching for one of the degree streams.
• Provide direct line management to junior technical teaching team staff.
• Plan and develop delivery of existing and new laboratory practical classes with the Teaching Laboratory Manager and other relevant staff. 

Duties and Responsibilities

These include:

• Work closely with the Teaching Laboratory Manager and other teaching staff to deliver a proactive approach to the technical support for one of the Life Sciences degree streams and to enhance the skills base of the team to provide a further contribution to the first-class teaching of Life Sciences at Imperial.
• Identify wider training and development opportunities for junior technical staff.
• To be responsible for potential new equipment and suppliers for an up-to-date, excellent laboratory experience for students. 
• Assist the Teaching Laboratory Manager and others, as appropriate, to develop a strategic plan for the delivery of technical services and support for Life Sciences related practical classes across faculties and the college outreach programmes as required.
• Work closely with technical staff in the testing and optimising of each practical and identify, provide or source training where necessary.

Essential requirements

These include:

• Educated to degree level in Life Sciences or a related subject.
• Experience of practical undergraduate teaching in Life Sciences or related subject in an HE environment.
• Experience of managing a team.
• Experience of laboratories and equipment management.
• Experience of developing new methods and procedures
• Experience of training of staff and students.
• Managing waste streams.
• Experience of managing Health & Safety within laboratories.

Further information 

This is a full time, open-ended role based at South Kensington Campus.

Should you require any further details on the role please contact: Pat Evans – [email protected] .