Living Lab Lead of Education and Research - UOD1590

This role requires the post holder to work with a wide range of stakeholders, from external commercial and professional organisations, university colleagues and local communities. An integral part of the role is to help progress the work of the Botanic Garden Living Lab, ensuring there is a programme of educational events and activities in the botanic garden and engaging students across the grounds managed by the department.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• To support the development of the Living Lab as part of the Steering Group
• To support the development of educational opportunities aligned to the Living Lab projects with partners from academic institutions, private, public and voluntary sector.
• To work with Botanic Garden team to ensure delivery of Living Lab projects including developing a pool of academic associates as appropriate to deliver the programme.
• To be up to date with research and strategies relating to the Living Lab.
• To maintain in association with administrative support, the Living Lab research database, analyse data, manage and deliver all monitoring, evaluation and reports as required by funders and stakeholders or internally by University of Dundee Botanic Garden.

Person Specification

• Demonstrable education experience within a natural history, garden or he ritage setting.
• The role holder must be able to supervise undergraduate projects and will be designated a co research investigator for the Living Lab.
• Experience of networking and building strategic partnerships at the highest level with academic institutions and a diverse range of stakeholders and partners.
• Excellent communication skills including written evaluation, research and reporting, and ability to present ideas and the Living Lab to audiences at all levels.
• Track record of writing successful complex project proposals with multiple partners.

Internationally recognised for our expertise across a range of disciplines and research breakthroughs in multiple areas, including science, medicine and engineering, amongst many others.

Conveniently located on the banks of River Tay, our main city-centre campus is at the heart of Dundee - an up-and-coming, friendly, compact and affordable city with a rich heritage in design and technology. We also have campuses at Ninewells Hospital and in Kirkcaldy which are easily accessible via local transport links.

For further information about this position please contact Kevin Frediani, Curator, kfrediani001@dundee.ac.uk

The diversity of our staff and students helps to make the University of Dundee a UK university of choice for undergraduate, postgraduate and distance learning. Family friendly policies, staff networks for BME, Disabled and LGBT staff, membership of Athena SWAN, the ECU Race Equality Charter and Stonewall as well a full range of disability services, create an enjoyable and inclusive place to work.

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