Centre Manager

Research Services - Doctoral College

This new full-time post is available from 16 September 2024 on a fixed-term basis until 28 February 2026.

We are open to applications from candidates looking for part-time (minimum 0.8 FTE) or job sharing. This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working – some time on campus and some from home.

Summary of the role

University of Exeter is pleased to host the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Environmental Intelligence: Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Sustainable Futures. Environmental Intelligence is the use of data science & AI to solve challenges around environment and sustainability. The Environmental Intelligence CDT offers an inter-disciplinary training environment that prioritises responsible innovation and ethics alongside technical solutions. The CDT was launched in 2018 and is now at full capacity with 50 PhD projects currently in progress, spread over 5 cohorts, with plans to recruit at least two additional cohorts (co-funded by non-academic partners and the University) in 2024 and 2025. The CDT has become a thriving research community that is at the heart of the wider Environmental Intelligence research theme at University of Exeter, with a lively range of academic and social activities.

We now seek to recruit a Centre Manager to play a central role as the CDT enters a new phase of its development. Our funding model is changing and some of our students are reaching the end of their studies, creating new requirements for the CDT to secure external co-funding for new students and to provide career development and employment opportunities for existing students. The Centre Manager will work closely with the Centre Director and two Deputy Directors to refresh CDT processes and strategy for these challenges in the coming years. They will have management responsibility for the Centre Administrator and a number of associated committees and groups, including the External Advisory Board and academic steering group. This will be a wide-ranging role with responsibility for delivering the strategy of the Centre both within the long-term vision and on a daily basis. A key part of the position will be professional facilitation of key doctoral training activities such as Grand Challenge events, mini-conferences and student placements with external partners. This will include coordination of the Centre’s training deliverables, and control and allocation of the centre’s budget.

The successful candidate will have a demonstrable track record of successful project management and working in an HE academic environment. They will have strong communication skills, combined with excellent organisation and priotisation skills. Familiarity with doctoral and postdoctoral training programmes would be an advantage. A willingness to engage with non-academic partner organisations to develop funding, placement and employment opportunities for students will be welcomed.

Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.

Benefits

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• 41 days leave per year (pro-rata for part-time roles)
• options for flexible working
• numerous discounts at leading retailers
• onsite gyms on all of our campus’ and a cycle to work scheme
• sector leading policies around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), paternity leave (up to six weeks full pay) and a new Fertility Treatment Policy
• stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England

Further information

Please contact Professor Hywel Williams, Centre Director, H.T.P.Williams@exeter.ac.uk or Dr Rachel Hogden, Head of PGR Support, R.L.Hogden@exeter.ac.uk  

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