Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer/ Reader within the Department of Earth Science and Engineering

Faculty / Department
Faculty of Engineering

Salary
Competitive

Location / Campus
South Kensington Campus – Hybrid

Contract Type / Work Pattern
Full time – Open ended

Closing date
02-Jan-2025
About the role
Are you seeking an academic appointment in a friendly and visionary department, discovering how Earth and planetary systems work and how we can support the energy transition and a zero-carbon and zero pollution future? The Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London has the exciting opportunity to appoint to 6 permanent academic positions, at the level of Lecturer, Senior Lecturer or Reader depending upon experience, to compliment and enrich our teaching and research activities and expand our multidisciplinary community.

Your interest may lie in any area of Earth Science and Engineering that links to any aspect of our three strategic focus areas for this search:

Climate and environment, including sustainability
Energy and resources in the context of the energy transition, including raw materials, critical metals, circular economy, geometallurgy, renewable energy and energy storage
Artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science
We particularly welcome applications from groups who are currently underrepresented in these fields in the UK including people from Black and Minority Ethnic backgrounds and women. These are full-time, open-ended (tenured) academic positions.

What you would be doing
You should be motivated to join a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment, perform original research, and write research funding bids. You will have the scope to teach on our popular undergraduate and/or postgraduate courses, work with our enthusiastic students and be supported by a community united in the desire to make a difference in this world.

Research in the Department of Earth Science and Engineering is wide-ranging and across five broad themes: Climate & Environment, Energy & Resources, Life & Health, Earth Processes & Geohazards, and Planetary Science. All areas deploy and advance digital technologies such as computational modelling, AI, remote sensing, and data science.

We house a strong offering of geochemical facilities, computing infrastructure and technical support, access to a wide range of internal and external facilities supporting groundbreaking research, and closely collaborate with our neighbours at the Natural History Museum.

Our teaching portfolio combines the traditional and the pioneering with undergraduate programmes in Earth and Planetary Science, Geology and Geophysics, and postgraduate courses in Metals and Energy Finance, and multiple computational subjects including: Applied Computational Science and Engineering, Environmental Data Science and Machine Learning, Geo-Energy with Machine Learning and Data Science and Renewable Energy with AI and Data Science: Geology & Geophysics.

To underline our commitment to educating a diverse cohort of scientists and engineers, we are establishing The Ada Lovelace Academy – the umbrella for our computationally based MSc programmes – which seeks to help overcome the underrepresentation of women in engineering by achieving gender equity across these courses by 2030.

What we are looking for
In order to be successful in the role, you will have

A PhD or equivalent in an appropriate field
A portfolio of research publications, confirming national/international standing (commensurate with career stage)
Ability to communicate well, conveying ideas and concepts clearly and effectively
Experience of training Undergraduate and Postgraduate students
Collaborative minds with an ability to build and sustain effective working relationships, both internally and externally
Evidence of contribution to the development and performance of colleagues through coaching, mentoring, and advancing equality, diversity and inclusion
A full description of the duties and requirements for the position can be found in the Job Description

What we can offer you
The opportunity to develop your career at a world-leading institution
Sector-leading salary and remuneration package (including 38 days off a year)
Extensive training and support for personal and professional development
Investment in infrastructure to support research in alignment with our areas of strategic focus
Please refer to further particulars for more information about Imperial and benefits available to staff.

Further information
Salary:
From £81,342 per annum for Reader
From £75,365 – £78,576 per annum for Senior Lecturer
From £69,332 – £78,576 per annum for Lecturer
Our preferred method of application is online, on our website at the following link: Imperial Career’s site (select “Search for jobs”).

In your application please state which grade you are applying for (Lecturer, Senior Lecturer or Reader), the strategic area you most closely align to, and ensure you include the following documents as uploaded attachments:

a full CV (specific details required are explained in the Job Description and application guidance document)
a statement of your research plans over the next 3 and 10 years (3 pages maximum)
a statement of your teaching interests (1 page maximum)
a statement on Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (1 page maximum)
a completed application form – where the application form box requests information included in the documents you will upload please do not duplicate, just reference in which document this has been provided in the respective box.
Please refer to the academic application guidance document for detailed guidance about what to include in your application and how to judge your requested level of appointment.

Applicants aligned to our strategic areas of interest but not yet meeting the essential requirements for an academic appointment may be considered for a fixed-term, Strategic Research Fellowship position.

Closing date for applications: 02 January 2025, 23:59 hours (Midnight GMT)

Interviews are expected to be held 24th March to 11th April 2025.

All applicants will be contacted by March 2025 after the shortlisting is complete.

To find out whether the Department of Earth Science and Engineering might be a good fit for your academic career please visit our website.

Queries relating to the application process should be directed to Katie Rycraft, Resources and Research Administrator – [email protected]

If you encounter any technical issues while applying online, please don’t hesitate to email us at [email protected]. We’re here to help.

The College is a proud signatory to the San-Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which means that in hiring and promotion decisions, we evaluate applicants on the quality of their work, not the journal impact factor where it is published. For more information, see https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-evaluation/

We are committed to equality of opportunity, to eliminating discrimination and to creating an inclusive working environment for all. We therefore encourage candidates to apply irrespective of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender reassignment, sex, or sexual orientation. We are an Athena SWAN Silver Award winner, a Disability Confident Leader and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.

Available documents
Attached documents are available under links. Clicking a document link will initialize its download.
Download: Job Description_L-SL-R-Earth-Science.Pdf
Download: Academic Application Guidance_FIN.Pdf
Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities mentioned above.
We reserve the right to close the advert prior to the closing date stated should we receive a high volume of applications. It is therefore advisable that you submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

If you encounter any technical issues while applying online, please don’t hesitate to email us at [email protected]. We’re here to help.

About Imperial
Welcome to Imperial, a global top ten university where scientific imagination leads to world-changing impact.

Join us and be part of something bigger. From global health to climate change, AI to business leadership, here at Imperial we navigate some of the world’s toughest challenges. Whatever your role, your contribution will have a lasting impact.

As a member of our vibrant community of 22,000 students and 8,000 staff, you’ll collaborate with passionate minds across nine London campuses and a global network.

This is your chance to help shape the future. We hope you’ll join us at Imperial College London.

Our Culture
We work towards equality of opportunity, to eliminating discrimination, and to creating an inclusive working environment for all. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, communities and industries, and are committed to employing a team that has diverse skills, experiences and abilities. You can read more about our commitment on our webpages.

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