AMIC Skills Lead

The Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Centre is looking for a Skills Lead to lead the way AMIC delivers on its ambition, convening skills activity across a range of stakeholders, influencing policy and delivering a skills portfolio across executive education, leadership and CPD training, apprentice training and experiential learning, and specialist courses. 

You will deliver the skills of the future for manufacturing, contributing to skills forecasting and delivering intelligence-led employability and skills opportunities designed to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce in advanced manufacturing, supporting industry to realise inclusive, innovation-led growth. 

You will engage with industry, government and education partners to develop the AMIC Future Skills strategy and delivery plan, and contribute to building AMIC’s talent and capabilities.

Our mission is to provide you with the environment to innovate and create impact - for business and society, in Northern Ireland and globally.

The successful candidate must have, and your application should clearly demonstrate that you meet the following criteria: 

• Honours degree or equivalent OR have substantial relevant experience as detailed below.
• Demonstrate significant recent and relevant experience delivering successful employability and skills projects of scale or strategic importance to include:
  • Stakeholder/partner management.
  • Creating collaborative funding bids to meet strategic objectives.
  • Using project management techniques to deliver successful projects.
• Proven experience of evidence-gathering, analysis and evaluation.
• Track record of working collaboratively to develop innovative solutions.
• Experience of effective leadership, management and delivery of economic development, skills or employability projects or programmes.

Please note the above are not an exhaustive list. For further information about the role including the essential and desirable criteria, click on the 'Candidate Information' oink below.

The post will be appointed for 3 years in the first instance. Fixed term contract posts are available for the stated period in the first instance but in particular circumstances may be renewed or made permanent subject to availability of funding.

At Queen’s our people are at the heart of everything we do. As a staff member you will become part of a vibrant organisational culture, which will provide you with the opportunity to achieve your full potential and enhance your career through a continuous focus on learning and development.

We offer an excellent employment package that includes:

• Great terms & conditions
• Pension schemes
• Flexible working by enabling you to design your working week in collaboration with your manager through a blend of remote and office working
• Family-friendly initiatives
• Career development opportunities
• Support for health & mental wellbeing
• Generous holiday entitlement of 8.4 weeks a year (made up of 23 days annual leave, 10 closure days and 9 bank holidays)

Queen’s University is committed to promoting equality of opportunity to all. We have created an inclusive culture by establishing staff networks such as iRise (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and International Staff Network) and PRISM (LGBTQ+) which help us progress equality.

We also subscribe to Equality Charter Marks such as the Diversity Charter Mark NI in addition to Athena Swan. For further information on our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, please visit: www.qub.ac.uk/diversity ; www.qub.ac.uk/qgi and www.qub.ac.uk/sites/StaffGateway/StaffNetworks/ . 

Candidate Information

Attractive reward package

About the AMIC

Further information for international applicants