Brunel University London is a leading provider of undergraduate and postgraduate education for the allied health professions and associated subject areas. With contemporary, purpose-built learning and teaching facilities within a vibrant campus-based University, Brunel’s College of Health and Life Sciences provides excellent opportunities to work alongside sector leading academics from a wide range of health-related subjects including Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Nursing, Public Health, Social Work, Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences and Psychology. In addition to these strong and successful programmes the College of Health and Life Sciences has applied to the General Medical Council (GMC) to develop a 5-year undergraduate medicine (MBBS) programme that harnesses the use of technology for knowledge and clinical practice. Brunel Medical School, subject to GMC approval, will register its first cohort of medical students in September 2021.

Brunel wishes to recruit a Digital Education Advisor. We seek an individual with the vision and commitment to academic excellence to contribute to the development and delivery of the MBBS programme as we embark upon this new and ambitious phase.

You will have experience in the delivery of faculty development and training for creating learning materials to support the use of technology for effective learning, teaching and assessment. Experience in supporting clinical and knowledge-based assessments and familiarity of e-portfolios and e-learning authoring tools is desirable. Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills are essential attributes as you will be expected to build relationships and work collaboratively with students and colleagues

It is expected that you will hold a first degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent, and have a keen interest in contributing to innovative projects in the area of Digital Education.

Closing date for applications: 4 April 2020

For further details and to apply please visit https://careers.brunel.ac.uk and further information may be obtained from Professor Olwyn Westwood via Hemma Dowlutta on hemma.dowlutta@brunel.ac.uk

This position does not meet the University criteria for Tier 2 sponsorship.

COMMITTED TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES AND REPRESENTING THE DIVERSITY OF THE COMMUNITY WE SERVE

Brunel University London is a leading provider of undergraduate and postgraduate education for the allied health professions and associated subject areas. With contemporary, purpose-built learning and teaching facilities within a vibrant campus-based University, Brunel’s College of Health and Life Sciences provides excellent opportunities to work alongside sector leading academics from a wide range of health-related subjects including Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Nursing, Public Health, Social Work, Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences and Psychology. In addition to these strong and successful programmes the College of Health and Life Sciences has applied to the General Medical Council (GMC) to develop a 5-year undergraduate medicine (MBBS) programme that harnesses the use of technology for knowledge and clinical practice. Brunel Medical School, subject to GMC approval, will register its first cohort of medical students in September 2021.

Brunel wishes to recruit a Digital Education Advisor. We seek an individual with the vision and commitment to academic excellence to contribute to the development and delivery of the MBBS programme as we embark upon this new and ambitious phase.

You will have experience in the delivery of faculty development and training for creating learning materials to support the use of technology for effective learning, teaching and assessment. Experience in supporting clinical and knowledge-based assessments and familiarity of e-portfolios and e-learning authoring tools is desirable. Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills are essential attributes as you will be expected to build relationships and work collaboratively with students and colleagues

It is expected that you will hold a first degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent, and have a keen interest in contributing to innovative projects in the area of Digital Education.

Closing date for applications: 4 April 2020

For further details and to apply please visit https://careers.brunel.ac.uk and further information may be obtained from Professor Olwyn Westwood via Hemma Dowlutta on hemma.dowlutta@brunel.ac.uk

This position does not meet the University criteria for Tier 2 sponsorship.

COMMITTED TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES AND REPRESENTING THE DIVERSITY OF THE COMMUNITY WE SERVE

An excellent opportunity for a highly skilled Graduate Software Engineer to project manage this challenging and interesting Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with G&Z Trading Ltd, under the supervision of Professor Shujun Zhang from the University of Gloucestershire and Dr Jishing Lu from G&Z Trading Ltd. 

The overall aim of this KTP project is to Research, Design and Develop a smart e-Commerce system (E-business Hub) to integrate G&Z's own info systems with 3rd party systems in real time. This system will offer significant cost efficiencies and create a Big Data pool offering opportunities to add value to G&Z through retaining/enlarging and opening new markets.  It is expected that the system can be used to achieve the operational efficiency and business automation by leveraging cutting edge technology advancements and innovation.

The Software Engineer (KTP Associate) will need to have a wide spectrum of both technical skills and knowledge and business awareness, and will deliver the 31-month project through:

• Planning, coordinating and managing the company’s IT provision
• Liaising with users, senior staff and internal/external clients to define business requirements and system requirements and generate design specification
• Researching, designing and developing a number of smart algorithms for data mining to reduce manual/overhead procedures and thereby automating tasks to achieve cost-efficiency, reliability and production efficiency
• Carrying out system requirement analysis and producing system design specifications
• Coding all units and testing them
• Integrating all units to produce the smart E-business Hub
• Designing and developing various APIS for achieving system integrations between G&Z's information systems and business partners' systems (3rd party logistics service providers and delivery companies)
• Carrying out system alpha test and beta test and improving the system based on the test results
• Training system users and producing on-line users guide
• Launching of the new system & embedding of new technology skills
• Supporting the industrial supervisor to manage the development of a specialist aspect of IT provision such as user support, network operations, service delivery or quality control
• Working with both academic and industrial supervisors to write a number of academic papers for publication

Closing Date: 05 April 2020

Interview Date:  27 April 2020

An excellent opportunity for a highly skilled Graduate Software Engineer to project manage this challenging and interesting Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with G&Z Trading Ltd, under the supervision of Professor Shujun Zhang from the University of Gloucestershire and Dr Jishing Lu from G&Z Trading Ltd. 

The overall aim of this KTP project is to Research, Design and Develop a smart e-Commerce system (E-business Hub) to integrate G&Z's own info systems with 3rd party systems in real time. This system will offer significant cost efficiencies and create a Big Data pool offering opportunities to add value to G&Z through retaining/enlarging and opening new markets.  It is expected that the system can be used to achieve the operational efficiency and business automation by leveraging cutting edge technology advancements and innovation.

The Software Engineer (KTP Associate) will need to have a wide spectrum of both technical skills and knowledge and business awareness, and will deliver the 31-month project through:

• Planning, coordinating and managing the company’s IT provision
• Liaising with users, senior staff and internal/external clients to define business requirements and system requirements and generate design specification
• Researching, designing and developing a number of smart algorithms for data mining to reduce manual/overhead procedures and thereby automating tasks to achieve cost-efficiency, reliability and production efficiency
• Carrying out system requirement analysis and producing system design specifications
• Coding all units and testing them
• Integrating all units to produce the smart E-business Hub
• Designing and developing various APIS for achieving system integrations between G&Z's information systems and business partners' systems (3rd party logistics service providers and delivery companies)
• Carrying out system alpha test and beta test and improving the system based on the test results
• Training system users and producing on-line users guide
• Launching of the new system & embedding of new technology skills
• Supporting the industrial supervisor to manage the development of a specialist aspect of IT provision such as user support, network operations, service delivery or quality control
• Working with both academic and industrial supervisors to write a number of academic papers for publication

Closing Date: 05 April 2020

Interview Date:  27 April 2020

The Department and role purpose

The Computing and Information Services (CIS) has an annual operational budget in the order of £10m, multi-million pound programmes of change within year, and approximately 140 staff who are predominately based at the Durham University campus. The Senior Leadership Team report directly to the Chief Information Officer with the following portfolios: Strategy and Change; Operations; and Information Systems. CIS provide academic, teaching and administrative services across the organisation that underpin the day-to-day activities of the whole organisation.

Recent infrastructure improvements include investment in a new network backbone, including new cable runs throughout the city to all of the Universities core buildings, new scalable user facing storage, and a new hosting environment. Corresponding business led investment also continues to be made with a new Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning suite, investment in research administration, and maximising the breadth of opportunities available to the University through Office365, alongside numerous other important initiatives.

CIS is a friendly, but demanding department, where much is expected and can be achieved by competent, self-motivated individuals who are demonstrable in their teamwork ability.

Under the direction of the Senior Manager (Business Analysis), the Assistant Business Analyst undertakes investigative work to determine business requirements and specify effective business processes, through improvements in information systems, information management, practices, procedures and organisation change. With the guidance of a Lead Business Analyst, the post holder uses pre-defined business analysis tools, methods and standards to support investigations for strategy studies, business requirements specifications and feasibility studies.

Support the capture of business requirements from users and work with colleagues to translate these into recommendations for future service provision.

Role responsibilities:

• Manage and organise business analysis tasks to achieve defined outputs and deliverables and ensure timely completion.
• Develop, implement and enforce effective change control processes and plan effective prioritisation processes for requirements and process designs and plan effective approval processes for deliverables.
• Provide professional guidance and advice to stakeholders during the investigation of business analysis information and solution options.
• Trace business rules to requirements that they support, or rules that support requirements and ensure compliance with internal University and external regulation, policy and procedures.
• Leverage appropriate business analysis tools to identify and maintain requirements and designs so they remain correct and current.
• Record data and information accurately, provide reports and distribute information to key stakeholders in the process or service.
• Use a range of digital media and tools to communicate with a diverse range of key stakeholders, both verbally and in written format, adapting communication styles and techniques to the knowledge level and communication styles of recipients.
• Partner with other Business Analysts and cross-functional groups to elicit functional and non-functional requirements.
• Establish, maintain and develop productive relationships with stakeholders in order to design, develop, deliver and maintain effective business solutions.
• Any other reasonable duties.

The Department and role purpose

The Computing and Information Services (CIS) has an annual operational budget in the order of £10m, multi-million pound programmes of change within year, and approximately 140 staff who are predominately based at the Durham University campus. The Senior Leadership Team report directly to the Chief Information Officer with the following portfolios: Strategy and Change; Operations; and Information Systems. CIS provide academic, teaching and administrative services across the organisation that underpin the day-to-day activities of the whole organisation.

Recent infrastructure improvements include investment in a new network backbone, including new cable runs throughout the city to all of the Universities core buildings, new scalable user facing storage, and a new hosting environment. Corresponding business led investment also continues to be made with a new Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning suite, investment in research administration, and maximising the breadth of opportunities available to the University through Office365, alongside numerous other important initiatives.

CIS is a friendly, but demanding department, where much is expected and can be achieved by competent, self-motivated individuals who are demonstrable in their teamwork ability.

Under the direction of the Senior Manager (Business Analysis), the Assistant Business Analyst undertakes investigative work to determine business requirements and specify effective business processes, through improvements in information systems, information management, practices, procedures and organisation change. With the guidance of a Lead Business Analyst, the post holder uses pre-defined business analysis tools, methods and standards to support investigations for strategy studies, business requirements specifications and feasibility studies.

Support the capture of business requirements from users and work with colleagues to translate these into recommendations for future service provision.

Role responsibilities:

• Manage and organise business analysis tasks to achieve defined outputs and deliverables and ensure timely completion.
• Develop, implement and enforce effective change control processes and plan effective prioritisation processes for requirements and process designs and plan effective approval processes for deliverables.
• Provide professional guidance and advice to stakeholders during the investigation of business analysis information and solution options.
• Trace business rules to requirements that they support, or rules that support requirements and ensure compliance with internal University and external regulation, policy and procedures.
• Leverage appropriate business analysis tools to identify and maintain requirements and designs so they remain correct and current.
• Record data and information accurately, provide reports and distribute information to key stakeholders in the process or service.
• Use a range of digital media and tools to communicate with a diverse range of key stakeholders, both verbally and in written format, adapting communication styles and techniques to the knowledge level and communication styles of recipients.
• Partner with other Business Analysts and cross-functional groups to elicit functional and non-functional requirements.
• Establish, maintain and develop productive relationships with stakeholders in order to design, develop, deliver and maintain effective business solutions.
• Any other reasonable duties.

This full-time post is available immediately on a permanent basis.

Summary of the role/position

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic, forward thinking, IT department. This is a technical role, focused on ensuring the smooth running of the IT servers and storage. The successful candidate will be managing multiple concurrent tasks with varying technologies.

The role will involve:

• Managing physical server and storage infrastructure to ensure all systems function as required and meet the targeted Service Level Agreements.
• Supporting IT Development processes in the provision of new services.
• Providing input on Technical Architecture in order to continuously improve all elements of the IT Infrastructure.
• Undertaking proactive monitoring and analysis, resolving problems and escalating as appropriate.
• Capacity management.

Key technical skills:

• Strong experience in a technical support and implementation role, with experience providing 3rd level support in a similar field.
• In-depth experience in technical support encompassing varying hardware and software platforms.
• Windows/Linux OS maintenance, including software rollout procedures, Web administration, Active Directory Security, Group Policy configuration, Antivirus setup and management, Backup software setup and management.
• Experience in diagnosing and resolving website faults in the above technologies.
• Experience on providing helpdesk style technical support to internal and/or external users.
• VMWare ESX Administration skills
• Storage Technologies such as EMC VNX, Atmos and Dell Compellent
• High Availability / Fault tolerance /Software Load balancing strategies/Hardware infrastructure fault tolerance experience
• IaaS such as Azure or AWS

The Infrastructure team will flex in size depending on demand.

The University of Exeter

We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 150 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019). We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2017.

Our research income in recent years means we’re fastest growing UK Research University and we seek to answer some of the most fundamental issues facing humankind today through this. 98% of our research is international quality (2014 Research Excellence Framework) and we encourage proactive engagement with industry, business and community partners to enhance the impact of research and education and improve the employability of our students. Exeter is one of only a few UK cities to have been designated as a UNESCO Creative City.

With over 22,000 students and 5,500 staff from 180 different countries we offer a diverse and engaging environment in which to work. We are an equal opportunity employer, a Disability Confident employer and an Athena Swan accredited institution. Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented in the workforce.

Benefits

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• 41 days leave per year
• options for flexible working
• numerous discounts at leading retailers
• onsite gyms on all of our campus’ and a cycle to work scheme
• sector leading policies around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), paternity leave (up to six weeks full pay) and a new Fertility Treatment Policy
• stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England

Further information

Please contact Dave Bunting, D.G.Bunting@exeter.ac.uk or (01392) 725112.

This full-time post is available immediately on a permanent basis.

Summary of the role/position

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic, forward thinking, IT department. This is a technical role, focused on ensuring the smooth running of the IT servers and storage. The successful candidate will be managing multiple concurrent tasks with varying technologies.

The role will involve:

• Managing physical server and storage infrastructure to ensure all systems function as required and meet the targeted Service Level Agreements.
• Supporting IT Development processes in the provision of new services.
• Providing input on Technical Architecture in order to continuously improve all elements of the IT Infrastructure.
• Undertaking proactive monitoring and analysis, resolving problems and escalating as appropriate.
• Capacity management.

Key technical skills:

• Strong experience in a technical support and implementation role, with experience providing 3rd level support in a similar field.
• In-depth experience in technical support encompassing varying hardware and software platforms.
• Windows/Linux OS maintenance, including software rollout procedures, Web administration, Active Directory Security, Group Policy configuration, Antivirus setup and management, Backup software setup and management.
• Experience in diagnosing and resolving website faults in the above technologies.
• Experience on providing helpdesk style technical support to internal and/or external users.
• VMWare ESX Administration skills
• Storage Technologies such as EMC VNX, Atmos and Dell Compellent
• High Availability / Fault tolerance /Software Load balancing strategies/Hardware infrastructure fault tolerance experience
• IaaS such as Azure or AWS

The Infrastructure team will flex in size depending on demand.

The University of Exeter

We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 150 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019). We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2017.

Our research income in recent years means we’re fastest growing UK Research University and we seek to answer some of the most fundamental issues facing humankind today through this. 98% of our research is international quality (2014 Research Excellence Framework) and we encourage proactive engagement with industry, business and community partners to enhance the impact of research and education and improve the employability of our students. Exeter is one of only a few UK cities to have been designated as a UNESCO Creative City.

With over 22,000 students and 5,500 staff from 180 different countries we offer a diverse and engaging environment in which to work. We are an equal opportunity employer, a Disability Confident employer and an Athena Swan accredited institution. Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented in the workforce.

Benefits

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• 41 days leave per year
• options for flexible working
• numerous discounts at leading retailers
• onsite gyms on all of our campus’ and a cycle to work scheme
• sector leading policies around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), paternity leave (up to six weeks full pay) and a new Fertility Treatment Policy
• stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England

Further information

Please contact Dave Bunting, D.G.Bunting@exeter.ac.uk or (01392) 725112.