Total 9 Senior Executive level Education / Training job vacancies in Edinburgh, Scotland

Grade UE04 £24,533 - £27,181 per annum
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences - Business School
Full time - 35 hours per week
Open ended (Permanent)


We are looking for a professional, customer-focused and highly organised individual to work as a key member of a busy Executive Development Team. The role directly contributes to the successful delivery of the School’s Executive Development activities by providing administrative support across a number of executive education activities.

The Opportunity:

This role will be responsible for providing executive programme logistics support across both online and face to face programme delivery including pre-arrival/induction activities and end of programme evaluation, providing front of house reception duties when required, providing administrative support for psychometric and diagnostic tools, as well as sales and marketing support.

This post is full-time (35 hours per week). This role is fully office based.

Your skills and attributes for success:

Good standard of education (Vocational qualifications N/SVQ 2/3, ONC or equivalent) plus experience in a relevant role or school education to Standard Grade or equivalent plus relevant work experience.
Fluent in English and competent literacy skills.
Proficient IT skills and in-depth knowledge of MS Office.
Demonstrably excellent organisational, planning and time management skills with the ability to handle several tasks at any one time, and stay calm under pressure
Positive attitude to work with excellent interpersonal and communication skills as well as a professional, friendly, helpful and approachable manner
A drive for continuous improvement.
Experience of working in a corporate or higher/executive education environment.

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Senior Early Years Officer
Pennywell Early Learning and Childcare

Salary: £36,312 - £42,717
Hours: 36 per week

Pennywell Early Learning and Childcare is expected to open in August 2024. This exciting new centre for providing high quality learning experiences for children and families is part of the MacMillan Hub. MacMillan Hub is a community focused, collaborative location which will provide a range of services for the local community through partnership working with North Edinburgh Arts and the relocated Muirhouse library.

We are recruiting an experienced Senior Early Years Officer to join our team on a permanent basis. The successful candidate will be passionate about supporting children to be confident, capable individuals and helping them to achieve their full potential. You will be skilled at monitoring the quality and impact of our environments, planning and interactions with children and will be proactive in developing and supporting their teams to achieve the best possible outcomes for the children in our care. You will know your children and team members as individuals and learners and will model excellent communication skills and effective deployment of team members to meet children's needs.

Please note - You must ensure that you have the required qualification(s) and experience before you apply, so please refer the attached documentation for requirements, or we will be unable to consider your application.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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UE07: £39,347.00 - £46,974.00 Per Annum.

CMVM / Edinburgh Research Centre.

Open Ended Contract - Permanent.

Full Time - 35 Hours Per Week.

The Opportunity:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Research Technician to join the Rheumatology research team at the Institute of Genetics and Cancer. The post holder will have extensive experience in skeletal joint biology and arthritis research, and enthusiasm to support an internationally competitive research programme which builds upon or shows synergy with those of other research groups at the University of Edinburgh. The post holder will also contribute to daily supervision of laboratory students.

This is an open-ended (i.e. permanent) post and is full-time (35 hours per week).

Your skills and attributes for success:

Extensive experience in skeletal joint biology and arthritis research, and with histology and microscopy techniques relevant to the area of research.
Ability to optimise and validate laboratory techniques.
Proven ability to contribute to writing manuscripts and reports.
Experience in the provision of day-to-day supervision of laboratory students.
Excellent organisational and time management skills.

Job Description

Education and Children's Services

Teacher of Support for Learning (Senior Phase)
Tynecastle High School

Salary: £32,217 - £48,516 (pro-rata for part time)
Hours: 20 per week

Our collegiate aims are to ensure all young people, regardless of background, achieve their dreams and to empower our young people to become, successful, responsible, confident, and effective citizens of their community and wider society. Tynecastle Learning Community is a diverse, ambitious, and thriving cluster of 4 primary schools, Balgreen, Craiglockhart, Dalry and Stenhouse all feeding into Tynecastle High School. We are complimented by 2 standalone Early Years Centres, Balgreen and Tynecastle Nurseries. The school role is currently 829.

We strive to create an environment of respect and inclusion, ensuring our young people have the opportunities to acquire, demonstrate, articulate and value the knowledge and skills that will support them as life-long learners. We are committed to offering the best possible learning experience to our learners, whoever and wherever they are.

We are looking for an excellent classroom teacher who shares our values and will enhance the opportunities for our learners. The role is a fantastic opportunity to work across a learning community, further develop leadership skills, tackle the attainment gap and will in the first instance, focus on improving outcomes for P7-S1 pupils before extending the successful model from P5-S3.

For further information please visit our website at www.tynecastle.edin.sch.uk or to discuss the post please contact Ms Hazel Kinnear, Head Teacher, on 0131 337 3488.

Salaries will be in accordance with the Scheme of Salaries and Conditions of Service for Teaching Staff in School Education.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

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Salary: Lecturer £45,585 - £56,021, Senior Lecturer £57,696 - £64,914, Reader £66,857 - £70,918
FTE: 2 X1.0
Term: Open-ended
Closing Date: 2 August 2024

The Department of Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management (DMEM) is an internationally leading department, Delivering Total Engineering for responsible and sustainable futures. We seek to appoint two positions as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer or Reader in Supply Chain Engineering Management. These posts are part of a wider talent and thought leader recruitment strategy. In the UK, a Lecturer is tenured and at Assistant Professor level, a Senior Lecturer is tenured and at Associate Professorship level, and a Reader position is tenured and at next level following an Associate Professorship, equivalent to a promoted Professorship as it is, for example, termed in Sweden.

We are part of the Faculty of Engineering in the University of Strathclyde, our vision is bold and ground breaking, placing us amongst the world’s leading international technological universities. The University is situated in the heart of Glasgow, with an international community including 22,000 students and more than 3,000 staff from 100 countries. Strathclyde is ‘the place of useful learning’ and is recognised internationally for its close working relationships with businesses and its partnerships with industry, government and industry.

We are proud of our well-established collaborations with academic and industrial partners. With more than 150 staff including the technical specialist centre, more than 100 Postgraduate Research (PGR) students both PhD and EngD, and more than 650 students from over 30 nations, we are a vibrant, international community.
Are you passionate about working on global challenge and societal transitions, including sustainability, healthcare, food systems, or manufacturing systems?
The position is aimed at research leaders who have a technical background, e.g. in operations and production engineering or related disciplines bridging to business and social sciences. Engineering Management is a core area and one of the three main pillars that DMEM is founded on and critical to it being a unique Department in the UK with a rising number of students registering for associated programmes.

You will thrive on theory-driven and empirically-validated research excellence, learning and teaching with and for engineering leaders of the future. In addition to research and teaching, there are also opportunities for career progression through industrial engagement / knowledge exchange tracks.
Operations and production management or engineering supply chain management expertise plays a vital role across the Department’s key activities of research, teaching and knowledge exchange.

You must have research experience and interests consistent with the strategic direction of the Department, Faculty and University and you will have experience of research leadership, including support of senior researchers in a University or industrial environment and management of research teams/projects/programmes. You will have extensive experience of delivering high quality teaching to undergraduate and postgraduate students including experience of developing and managing large teaching programmes and you will have experience of PhD/EngD research project supervision in Higher Education.

You will have an outstanding/sustained track record of published research in high quality publications demonstrating standards of excellence, with an international reputation. You will have an outstanding/substantial track record of securing research funding through relevant successful collaborative research grant applications and you will have an established national/international reputation as an expert and leader within Supply Chain Engineering Management. You will be an excellent educator and mentor and will show leadership in identifying key research questions and attracting funding support. You will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong people skills and an ability to operate as part of a team.

Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Professor Anja Maier, Head of Department (anja.maier@strath.ac.uk).

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Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Senior Early Years Officer - fixed term until 13/06/2025
Stenhouse Early Years Centre

Salary: £36,312 - £42,717
Hours: 36 per week

Stenhouse Early Years Centre work with children aged 0-3 years and their families to promote early learning and childcare with high quality play being at the heart of their learning and development.

We are now seeking to recruit a passionate and committed Senior Early Years Officer to join our team on a fixed term basis as we continue to develop our service. The successful candidate will have proven experience in an Early Years setting and relevant experience of working with parents and carers.

You must have an HNC Childcare & Education or equivalent. In addition to this you must have or be working towards Level 9 SCQF or BA in Childhood Practice.

Please refer to the attached document for further information regarding the role and the essential qualifications and requirements.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

Follow us on Twitter at @edincounciljobs

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UE07: £39,347 - £46,974

Finance / Edinburgh Research Office

Open ended, full time (35 hours per week)

We are looking for a proactive and motivated Research Bid Development Executive to join the University of Edinburgh’s new Strategic Proposals team. As such, they will have a vital contribution towards meeting the goals of the University’s ambitious Research and Innovation 2030 Strategy.

The Opportunity:

This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to support the embedding of the Strategic Proposals team, which is core to the University’s newly launched Research & Innovation 2030 Strategy. The post holder will primarily support University applicants leading strategic international proposals to be submitted to prestigious schemes such as the European Research Council (ERC) calls. They will work closely with colleagues from across Edinburgh Research Office, as well as broader research support services including those in Schools, Institutes and Colleges.

Your skills and attributes for success:

Exceptional writer and communicator, with experience of working in a research environment (e.g. as a PhD student, researcher or research support professional)
Experience of successfully supporting the development, review and submission of competitive grant applications for external funding
Highly organised, ensuring deadlines are met and new processes or events are delivered successfully
Excellent collaborative ethos, with proven ability to work effectively with co-workers, researchers, external stakeholders
Customer-oriented approach with a reputation for high quality service delivery.

Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Senior Early Years Officer
Stenhouse Early Years Centre

Salary: £36,312 - £42,717 per year
Hours: 36 per week

Stenhouse Early Years Centre work with children aged 0-3 years and their families to promote early learning and childcare with high quality play being at the heart of their learning and development.

We are now seeking to recruit a passionate and committed Senior Early Years Officer to join our team on a permanent basis as we continue to develop our service. The successful candidate will have proven experience in an Early Years setting and relevant experience of working with parents and carers.

You must have an HNC Childcare & Education or equivalent. In addition to this you must have or be working towards Level 9 SCQF or BA in Childhood Practice.

Please refer to the attached document for further information regarding the role and the essential qualifications and requirements.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

Follow us on Twitter at @edincounciljobs

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Grade UE06: £31,396.00 to £36,024.00 Per Annum (A revised salary range for this grade of £32,982 to £38,205 is planned to take effect from Spring 2024).

College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine / Institute for Regeneration and Repair / Centre for Reproductive Health.

Fixed Term Contract: 18 months.

Full Time - 35 Hours Per Week.

Our research team at the Centre for Reproductive Health are looking to recruit a highly motivated individual to support a clinical research group working on developing methods to preserve and restore fertility in males treated for childhood cancer.

The Opportunity:

The post offers an opportunity to join a dynamic research group within the recently opened Institute for Regeneration and Repair. The successful applicant will support all aspects of our experimental work aimed at developing strategies for fertility preservation in children with cancer. This post is advertised as full-time (35 hours per week).

Informal enquiries may be directed to:

Rod Mitchell

Professor of Developmental Endocrinology, University of Edinburgh

rod.mitchell@ed.ac.uk

Your skills and attributes for success:

Undergraduate degree in a biological science subject. Trained in animal research with current/previous Home Office personal licence.
Competence in cell culture, genetic manipulation (e.g. siRNA, CRISPR/-Cas9), RNA and protein extraction, hormone assays, Western and qRTPCR analysis, histological analyses including advanced imaging methods.
Evidence of ability to integrate disparate methodologies.
Proven ability to work to deadlines.
Knowledge of Health and Safety and GM regulations.