Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Employability

Management Learning

Location: Guildford
Salary: £44,414 to £64,946
Post Type: Full Time
Closing Date: 23.59 hours BST on Sunday 28 May 2023
Reference: 023823

Starting Salary for Lecturer: £44,414

Starting Salary for Senior Lecturer £54,421

In a period of exciting new curriculum development for Surrey Business School, we are seeking an exceptional Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Employability to support the professional development and employability of our students across all levels and programmes. This is a Teaching Track role.

Surrey Business School is a leading business school with over 120 academic staff members from around the globe, and a highly cohesive and collegial atmosphere. The School is accredited by AACSB (the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), AMBA (the Association of MBAs) and holds the Advance HE Athena SWAN bronze award. We inspire positive change in business and society, individuals and organisations, locally and globally by blending the rigour of high-quality impactful research with excellent teaching and the strengths of a technology-led university. With a strong Senior Management Team led by its Dean, Professor Steve Wood, we are ambitious in building a world-class interdisciplinary business school.  

The School’s strengths are particularly in digital innovation and technological transformation, international business, leadership and organizational psychology, business analytics, sustainability and corporate governance. Set in the beautiful countryside of Surrey with the convenience of bustling Guildford on your doorstep and London just 34 minutes away by train, the University of Surrey, which ranked 9th in the National Student Survey 2022, is an outstanding international University with an enterprising spirit. In September 2021 the University was awarded the University of the Year for Graduate Employment in the Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide for 2022.The School runs a full range of programmes including undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA programmes, as well as a PhD programme. The School works closely with a network of business partners and other stakeholders, boasting strong links with many technology-oriented start-ups and established firms in London, and the South-East of England. For further information, please visit the SBS website.

We are looking for an individual with experience of working with young adults to develop their full personal and professional potential. You should be enthusiastic about enabling students to apply classroom learning into practice, realising their potential and identifying the career directions they might take. As someone who enjoys interacting with students, you will provide guidance and support students in a manner that empowers them to make decisions on their own behalf.

Committed to helping students grow through gaining real experience, you will be expected to manage and generate new relationships and maintain existing links with employers to encourage uptake of placements and other work experience opportunities.

With an honours degree, or an appropriate equivalent professional qualification, you will be able to combine academic rigour with professional realism, bringing with you relevant commercial experience.

We offer a generous remuneration package, which includes relocation assistance where appropriate, funding for conference attendance, the latest teaching facilities, and access to a variety of staff development opportunities.

For an informal discussion, please contact the Director of Employability, Heidi Hazeu (h.hazeu@surrey.ac.uk)

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In return we offer a generous pension, relocation assistance where appropriate, flexible working options including job share and blended home/campus working locations (dependent on work duties), access to world-class leisure facilities on campus, a range of travel schemes and supportive family friendly benefits including an excellent on-site nursery.

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The University of Surrey is committed to providing an inclusive environment that offers equal opportunities for all. We place great value on diversity and are seeking to increase the diversity within our community. Therefore we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups, such as people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups and people with disabilities.