School/Department School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing
Based at Cranfield Campus, Cranfield, Bedfordshire
Hours of work 37 hours per week, normally worked Monday to Friday. Flexible working will be considered.
Contract type Permanent
Salary 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
Apply by 15/02/2024
Role Description
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, dynamic 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, Lecturer in Off Road and Motorsport Vehicle Engineering on E: [email protected] or Prof James Brighton, Professor of Automotive Engineering on E: [email protected]
Apply online now . Please do not hesitate to contact us for further details on E: [email protected] . Please quote reference number 4719.
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