Job Description

Job Category: Professional and Managerial
Degree Level: First Degree
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Directorate: School of Engineering & Physical Sciences
Grade: Grade 7 - 37,694 - 47,389
Contract Type: Full-Time (1FTE), Fixed Term (until end August 2026)
Rewards and Benefits: 33 days annual leave, plus 9 buildings closed days (and Christmas Eve when it falls on a weekday) for all full time staff. Use our total rewards calculator: https:// to see the value of benefits provided by Heriot-Watt University.
About the Centre for Doctoral Training in Green Industrial Futures and our Team
The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Green Industrial Futures (CDT-GIF) is delivering the next generation of global leaders in the energy transition through a world-leading, interdisciplinary whole systems research and training programme to realise the green industrial revolution. The centre brings together four of the UK's leading universities and facilities in industrial decarbonisation - Heriot-Watt University, Imperial, University of Bath and the University of Sheffield. 100 students will be trained over 5 cohorts, conducting research in technologies and systemic approaches that will be adopted to lower industrial emissions whilst ensuring a just and economically-viable transition, including carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS); hydrogen & sustainable fuels; CO2 removal technology; and energy & resource efficiency.
Detailed Description
Based at Heriot-Watt University's Riccarton campus in Edinburgh, the role holder will be responsible for implementing our CDT's accredited training and professional development programme. This varied role will involve liaising with academics, students and training providers and ensuring high- quality delivery and management of all related processes. The programme is delivered through a number of residential training events, held at Heriot-Watt and our partner universities, as well as regular online training sessions with the students.
The role-holder will be an energetic, self-starter with an ability to make decisions and work to deadlines. Reporting to the Centre Manager, you will work closely with the CDT Director and Management Board, focusing on ensuring the smooth administration and delivery of the training programme. In addition the role holder will also be involved in aspects of ongoing student recruitment and handling ongoing enquiries from current students.
Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Contributing to the recruitment of new CDT-GIF students

• Supporting the on-boarding of students to the CDT-GIF, including registration

• Ensuring the delivery of a high-quality student experience, including taught courses and transferrable / professional skills training

• Coordinating, planning and timetabling of all training events and liaison with training providers.

• Formulation of the programme for the fortnightly 'Frontiers Forum' and supporting delivery of the Annual CDT-GIF Conference

• Supporting the functioning of the 'Student Leadership Committee' (SLC), which consists of representatives from across the universities and cohorts of the CDT and meets online monthly in term-time

• Building internal and external networks to enhance the training experience

• Contributing to periodic (typically annual) reporting to EPSRC in the form of documents and analysis

• Managing students' marks and grades, updating course items in Banner and GCM as appropriate

• Report and presentation creation and delivery at management and governance meetings

Education, Qualifications and Experience
Essential Criteria

• Honours first-degree level education or equivalent

• Knowledge and experience gained in an industrial, research, academic training context.

• Experience of interaction with industry, preferably an understanding of the research areas needed to deliver green industrial futures, with a demonstrable ability to network in this community

• Evidence of critical analysis skills and organisational / administrative capabilities

• Strong administration, organisational skills and project management.

• Evidence of excellent interpersonal, writing, information-management, presentational and communication skills, demonstrating an ability to project a clear vision of overall objectives, create a sense of common purpose among training providers members, and encourage them to contribute to this goal

• Evidence of efficiency, working under own initiative to strict deadlines, planning skills and decision making.

• Experience in use of MS Office and other relevant IT packages

• Experience of considering aspects such as 'Equality Diversity & Inclusion' in the context training

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of UK HE Sector, particularly the doctoral and postdoctoral training environment.

• Experience of engaging with students.

• Possess knowledge and personal experience of academic syllabus development and delivery, in the secondary or tertiary education sectors; have experience of Masters level taught- course education.

• Experience of academic project management

• Selection and recruitment experience

Flexibility in working patterns may be needed in order to accommodate events taking place outside non-standard working hours, such as during the residentials The University is committed to facilitating flexible working and this can be agreed by negotiation. Occasional UK travel may be required.
How to Apply
Please submit via the Heriot-Watt on-line recruitment system (1) Cover letter describing their interest and suitability for the post; (2) Full CV.
Applications must be submitted by midnight on Wednesday 5th November 2025.
At Heriot Watt we are passionate about our values and look to them to connect our people globally and to help us collaborate and celebrate our success through working together. Our research programmes can deliver real world impact which is achieved through the diversity of our international community and the recognition of creative talent that connects our global team.
Our flourishing community will give you the freedom to challenge and to bring your enterprising mind and to help our partners with solutions that can be applied now and in the future. Join us and Heriot Watt will provide you with a platform to thrive and work in a way that also helps you live your life in balance with well-being and inclusiveness at the heart of our global community.
Heriot-Watt University is committed to securing equality of opportunity in employment and to the creation of an environment in which individuals are selected, trained, promoted, appraised and otherwise treated on the sole basis of their relevant merits and abilities. Equality and diversity are all about maximising potential and creating a culture of inclusion for all.
Heriot-Watt University values diversity across our university community and welcomes applications from all sectors of society, particularly from underrepresented groups. For more information, please see our website and also our award-winning work in Disability Inclusive Science Careers
We welcome and will consider flexible working patterns e.g. part-time working and job share options.

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