Senior Lecturer in Construction Management and Apprentice Lead for College of Built Environment

The full-time starting salary is normally £52,996.00 per annum, with progression available in post to £57,602.00 per annum.

Birmingham City University is a large and diverse place to study right in the heart of the city and we currently have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Lecturer in Construction Management and Apprentice Lead for the College of Built Environment, to join our dynamic team. The role will suit an experienced individual, either via prior academic, professional or Industry appointments, looking to advance their career while looking after a modern campus receiving significant investment.

As Apprenticeship Lead, you will work with the programme team to lead on facilitating reviews between apprentices, employers and liaising with relevant academic staff. Your engagement with employers and their apprentices is foremost to ensuring our existing and future apprenticeship programmes provide an excellent learning experience, meeting employers and apprentice expectations, in line with professional body requirements for apprenticeship provision.

You will work collaboratively with both academic staff and apprenticeship managers to ensure systems and process are adhered to and that both quality and compliance is maintained to the highest standard in line with service level agreements. You will organise visits with external clients, apprentices and internal staff to ensure the implementation of quality reviews and assessment of evidence for audits and Ofsted visits. You will act as a personal professional academic tutor for learners and will need to engage actively on working with employers to support learners who have disclosed a need for additional support.

You will be responsible to carry out Teaching in our home (UG and PGT) and Degree Apprentice schemes, within the Subject area of Construction Project Management. You should be an aspirational academic, research active and with expertise in Construction Project management, and/or Quantity Surveying.

You will be educated to PhD Level in Construction project management or other related discipline, and a relevant professional qualification is desirable. You will hold an excellent research track record of published journal outputs to-date, ideally with prior experience as a Course Leader for Degree Apprentices, and have experience of working in a demanding academic setting.

For further information please contact Mr Paul Laycock, paul.laycock@bcu.ac.uk.

FACULTY OF COMPUTING, ENGINEERING AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

In the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment (CEBE), we work to apply abstract intelligence to make a better, safer, smarter society. We have a strong emphasis on STEAM, with some of our teaching taking place in our award-winning new STEAMhouse building, where disciplines combine to solve real-world problems. 

Our experts across the Faculty work not only with one another but across a wide range of disciplines, to solve real-world problems, and encourage and foster this spirit of Innovation in our students. Together, they are able to respond dynamically to the multiple modern technological challenges posed by fast-paced industries.

Across the Faculty, we integrate teaching with research, innovation and enterprise. We work closely with our industry partners to ensure that we are developing skills in our graduates that equips them for emerging careers and the future of work. We are fully committed to practice-driven experimental and flipped learning – harnessing the strength of employer relationships for the benefit of our students – who then go on to make a significant impact on society through their ideas, their work and their expertise. 

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About Us

At the heart of our Strategy for 2030 and Beyond, it is our mission to enable our students to transform their lives and to achieve their potential. Through our education and research, and the roles our graduates go on to play in the world, we not only support individuals to transform their lives, but we also play a part in transforming society.

Located in the centre of the UK’s second city, we are a university with a long heritage of innovation and of making, dating back to our origins in 1843 when we were founded as the Birmingham Government School of Design.

Our heritage of making through innovation and its application through knowledge exchange, and of creative research and practice, today finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our research and enterprise, and in our commitment to challenge-based learning. Working across disciplines, and delivering impactful research and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is at the heart of the continuing transformation of our academic portfolio.

Apply Before: 21/04/2025, 23:59