Assistant Professor in Quantity Surveying

Salary:

Grade 7 (£36,924 - £46,485);

Grade 8 (£46,485 - £56,921) per annum

Detailed Description

The School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society (EGIS) is looking to recruit an Assistant Professor in Quantity Surveying to work at our Edinburgh campus.

We are particularly encouraging applications from candidate with a growing international recognition and expertise in any one of the following areas:

• Cost engineering, quantity surveying – with expertise in all aspects of pre and post contract activities in the built environment sector
• Risk Management for Construction – the advancement of this sector to face future challenges.
• Cost Control and Circular Economy – embracing sustainability for the Built Environment.
• Digital Transformation of the Built Environment – embedding the 4th Industrial Revolution into teaching and research.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

Grade 7

• Show opportunities to develop and grow a research profile with the intention to publish excellent research in construction and the built environment;
• Develop skills and experience to win research funding through either the submission of high-quality grant proposals or funding from industry, as part of a research group;
• Create opportunities to undertake knowledge exchange activities to promote and disseminate your research;
• Develop and deliver innovative teaching in quantity surveying and related fields at undergraduate and postgraduate level;
• Supervise undergraduate and postgraduate students’ work and take responsibility for dealing with referred issues regarding students within their own educational programmes;
• Carry out such administrative and recruitment activities as may be required to achieve these aims.

Grade 8

• Carry out and publish internationally excellent research in construction and the built environment;
• Win research funding through either the submission of high-quality grant proposals or funding from industry, as part of a research group;
• Undertake knowledge exchange activities to promote and disseminate your research;
• Develop and deliver innovative teaching in quantity surveying and related fields at undergraduate and postgraduate level;
• Supervise undergraduate and postgraduate students’ work and take responsibility for dealing with referred issues regarding students within their own educational programmes;
• Carry out such administrative and recruitment activities as may be required to achieve these aims.
• The successful candidate will be based at our Edinburgh campus in the UK, but occasional visits to other campuses may be required on a need basis. We encourage applications from under-represented groups. 

For all criteria, further details and how to apply, please click the 'Apply' button, above.

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