CENTA Teaching and Training Fellow - College and Environmental Sciences Grade 7

Position Details

College of Life and Environmental Sciences

Location:

University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £36,130 to £45,413 with potential progression once in post to £48,149

Grade: 7

Full Time, Fixed Term contract up to May 2028

Closing date: 6th August 2025

UK travel may be required for this role

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, andweare 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 todevelopthrough our sector-leading Birmingham Professional programmewhichprovides allprofessionalservices staff with development opportunities and the encouragement to reach their full potential.

With almost 5,000professionalservices jobs in a wide-range of functions in Edgbaston andin our campus in Dubai, there are plenty of opportunities foryou 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 andtothe success of the University and, depending on the role, we offer avarietyof flexible working arrangements. We therefore welcome discussions on all forms of flexible  addition, you will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 dayspaid holidaya 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.

Find out more about the benefits of working for the Universityof Birmingham

Background

The Central England NERC Training Alliance (CENTA) is a consortium of six research intensive universities and three research centres, led by the University of Birmingham, which work together to deliver excellence in doctoral research training in the earth and environmental sciences.

We receive funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) for the current CENTA2 Doctoral Training Partnership and the CENTA3 Doctoral Landscape Award, which will commence in autumn 2025.At the heart of our studentship offer is our innovative, high quality and comprehensive training programme, designed to equip our Doctoral Researchers (DRs) with knowledge, skills, and expertise to identify and address complex environmental challenges and cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries.

Role Summary

The CENTA Training Fellow will be responsible for the planning, management, co-coordination and delivery ofCENTA’s training programme, as well as higher-level Project Management tasks such as EDI monitoring and UKRI funder regulation compliance. This post will be managed by the Deputy Director of Operations (Research and Knowledge Transfer) (Dr Victoria Sharp) and will involve collaborative working with the CENTA Director (Dr Sarah Greene), the CENTA Manager (Ms Jennifer Thomson), and the CENTA Executive Board, who will provide strategic oversight and guidance to thekey elements of the role are the development, advertising, delivery and evaluation of training provided to CENTA’s PhD students (including self-delivered training sessions, training sessions delivered in conjunction with other CENTA academics and experts from within the CENTA network, and/or externally-sourced trainer), the fostering of collaboration between CENTA’s…