Position Details
Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, College of Medical and Dental Sciences
Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK
Full time starting salary is normally in the range £45,585 to £54,395 with potential progression once in post to £61,198
Grade: 8
Full Time, Fixed Term contract up to March 2026
Closing date: 7th April 2024
Our offer to you
People are at the heart of what we are and do.
The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years, and we are equally proud to be recognised as a leading global university. We want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond, support them to succeed, and celebrate their success.
We are committed to helping the people who work here to develop through our sector-leading Birmingham Professional programme which provides all professional services staff with development opportunities and the encouragement to reach their full potential. With almost 5,000 professional services jobs in a wide-range of functions in Edgbaston and in our campus in Dubai, there are plenty of opportunities for you to be able to develop your career at the University.
We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation, and debate. We warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who and what we are, and how we work.
Supporting our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance is important both to our employees and to the success of the University and, depending on the role, we offer a variety of flexible working arrangements. We therefore welcome discussions on all forms of flexible working. In addition, you will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 days paid holiday a year, one paid day a year for volunteering, occupational sick pay, and a pension scheme. We also have three high quality subsidised day nurseries.
The University is situated in leafy Edgbaston and there are excellent transport links to our beautiful campus, including main bus routes and a train station on site. On campus we have a state-of-the-art sports centre with pool, shops, places to eat and drink, our own art gallery, museum and botanical gardens.
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Role Summary
The post holder will work collaboratively to develop and deliver digital training and outreach programmes to support future medicines manufacturing. They will be responsible for delivery of training and education using tools such as virtual reality and mixed reality (VR/MR) to drive digital transformation and net zero practices for educators, industry and NHS. They will train diverse cohorts of learners spanning the entire careers pipeline for industry, academia and NHS, sharing best practice with partners.
This role is based within the College of Medical and Dental Sciences and plays a vital role in developing and delivering innovative training, assessment and outreach approaches for a University Centre working in a UK consortium.
The post holder will possess an understanding of dynamic training needs for diverse learner groups, as well as strong interest in developing new ways of thinking in training delivery and training data analysis, to enable growth of the medicines manufacturing workforce and NHS. They will work with a nationwide consortium across the project, lead on digital strategies for inclusive and accessible learning, and make a major contribution to strategic discussions around digital transformation in education.
The post holder will work on their own initiative and exercise a high level of judgement, skill and understanding to conceive, develop and implement long-term improvements to service delivery and effective ways of working within their areas of responsibility.
Main Duties
- Deliver training to a range of target audiences including NHS staff, industry and life sciences students.
- Maintain and update content for existing courses run at our National Training Centre.
- Be the Centre lead and contribute to a national strategy for digital course delivery using VR/MR and online tools.
- Work closely with the project team to develop content for future training courses.
- Deliver training content to targeted groups of 10 – 25 and prepare findings for publication, seminars etc.
- Collect performance data; this may be through a variety of research methods, such as participant questionnaire review, and research interviews.
- Analyse and interpret feedback from training sessions to further develop and improve content.
- Oversee students/trainees on the training programme and provide guidance where appropriate to the content being delivered.
- Contribute to developing new teaching platforms, content, and methods.
- Present National Training Centre outputs, including drafting academic publications or parts thereof, for example at seminars and as posters.
- Manage training-related administrative processes, including registration and onboarding of trainees, ensuring they are robust, flexible and operate effectively, interfacing with colleagues within the University, and external.
- Manage a bank of training materials, ensuring that access is granted in line with project terms.
- Act as principal point of contact and maintain relationships with affiliate members and partners involved in training delivery.
- Independently troubleshoot problems that may affect the achievement of the Centre objectives and deadlines, with support from senior colleagues where appropriate.
- Have an understanding of how the Centre engages with existing and new Industrial Partners to enable a broad range of knowledge transfer events, training and projects to be run; from training programmes, to outreach, to engagement with industry, academia and clinical affiliates and delivery partners.
- Liaise with providers of manufacturing platforms central to ATMP production, developing training content to support professional training programmes.
- Act as a main point of contact and maintain relationships with key industry stakeholders.
- Actively manages equality, diversity and inclusion through monitoring and evaluation and actively challenging unacceptable behaviour.
- Supports the University’s sustainability agenda through resource efficient working.
Required Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Experience
- Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification in life science or engineering discipline plus substantial work experience in a relevant technical/scientific and/or management/supervisory role in a specialist area.
- A higher degree in a discipline such as immunology, cell biology, bioprocessing or other relevant discipline. Where no equivalent qualification is held a proven track record of extensive and substantial work experience in a series of progressively more demanding and relevant roles will be required.
- Strong interest in digital technology for education, skills, training and outreach Experienced in regulated research or in clinical regulated environments and have the ability to review and build awareness of the regulatory framework governing medicines manufacture.
- Experienced in laboratory working with technical expertise in cell processing/culture being essential.
- Experienced in digital technology such as VR/MR, gaming consoles, computer systems for learning.
- Experience in/knowledge of medicines manufacture (either cell therapy, biologics or pharmaceuticals) is preferred but not essential Experienced in regulated. research or in clinical regulated environments and have the ability to review and build awareness of the regulatory framework governing medicines manufacture.
- Experienced in laboratory working with technical expertise in cell processing/culture being essential.
- Experienced in digital technology such as VR/MR, gaming consoles, computer systems for learning.
- Experience in/knowledge of medicines manufacture (either cell therapy, biologics or pharmaceuticals) is preferred but not essential.
- High level analytical capability.
- Ability to communicate complex information clearly.
- Ability to assess resource requirements and use resources effectively.
- Understanding of and ability to contribute to broader management/administration processes.
- Ability to co-ordinate own work with others to avoid conflict or duplication of effort.
- Proven technical specialist knowledge and understanding in a relevant technical area (specialists will require advanced technical expertise).
- Evidence of literacy and numeracy.
- Experience of championing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in own work area.
- Ability to monitor and evaluate the extent to which equality and diversity legislation, policies, procedures are applied.
Ability to identify issues with the potential to impact on protected groups and take appropriate action.
Further particulars can be found here
Informal enquiries to Lisa Powell, email: l.h.powell at bham. dot ac dot uk
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We believe there is no such thing as a 'typical' member of University of Birmingham staff and that diversity in its many forms is a strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation and debate at the heart of University life. We are committed to proactively addressing the barriers experienced by some groups in our community and are proud to hold Athena SWAN, Race Equality Charter and Disability Confident accreditations. We have an Equality Diversity and Inclusion Centre that focuses on continuously improving the University as a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone has the opportunity to succeed. We are also committed to sustainability, which is a key part of our strategy . You can find out more about our work to create a fairer university for everyone on our website .