Centre for Doctoral Training Manager

Royce is seeking a Manager to lead on the delivery of our Materials 4.0 EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT), based at the Henry Royce Institute. This is a pivotal role in shaping the design and delivery of our CDT and directly impacting student experience.

The post holder will have responsibility for the overall day-to-day operations of the CDT, ensuring students experience a high-quality doctoral student journey. They will be a key point of contact both internally and externally for the CDT, managing interactions between staff, students, institutional partners across Royce, industry partners, and professional services across the eight institutions which make up the CDT (the Universities of Manchester, Sheffield, Cambridge, Leeds, Oxford and Strathclyde, Imperial College London, the National Physical Laboratory). They will provide support to the CDT Directors and Co-Investigators in all aspects of the CDT, and work closely with them to contribute to the strategic and operational development of the centre. The post holder will be expected to undertake duties in an independent manner, being capable of taking initiative.

As this role involves research at a postgraduate level, applicants who are not an EEA national or a national of an exempt country and who will require sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route of the UK Visas and Immigration’s (UKVI) Points Based System in order to take up the role, will be required to apply for an Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS) Certificate and will need to obtain this prior to making any official visa application UKVI)

What you will get in return:

• Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
• Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
• Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
• Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
• Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status.  All appointments are made on merit.

Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here

Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.

Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

Any recruitment enquiries from recruitment agencies should be directed to People.Recruitment@manchester.ac.uk.

Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Tom Hancocks (Training and Skills Manager)

Email: tom.hancocks@royce.ac.uk

or

Name: Helen Allwood (Senior Project Manager)

Email: helen.allwood@manchester.ac.uk  

General enquiries:

Email: People.recruitment@manchester.ac.uk

Technical support:

https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home

This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.