Work With Us

Institution:

New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE), Higher Education Institute.

Area of expertise:

Finance, Legal, Governance 

Remuneration:

Unremunerated, reasonable expenses reimbursed

Location:

Hereford, UK

Closing date:

Monday 31st October 2022

Who we are

New Model Institute for Technology and engineering (NMITE) is an innovative new entrant in UK Higher Education with eyes firmly on regional impact and global reputation.  Located in Hereford, we have ambitious aims to support lifelong learning in technology and engineering, to support industry and transform careers. NMITE was officially listed as a new provider of Higher Education in August 2020, we are now open for business.  We started deliver our game-changer degree programme, when our pioneer cohort arrived in 2021.  This is an exciting time to join our Board, and a momentous period in our history.

Who we are looking for now

We are recruiting a new Board Member, to join in October/November 2022.  This exceptional individual will ideally come from a finance background, able to contribute at strategic level, supporting our future success and ability to deliver ambitious plans moving forward.  We want to attract those aligned with our ambitious objectives and vision, and those who share our passion for Higher Education, Science, Technology and Engineering. 

The Board encourages applicants from diverse backgrounds, including those for whom this may be a first non-executive or Board role. 

We are looking for individuals who have experience in the following areas:

• Accounting and Finance
• Governance
• Legal

The role of a Board Member

The Board oversees strategic development and ensures the effective use of resources. The Board is committed to conducting business in accordance with the Public Interest Governance Principles.  Our Board Members are Charity Trustees and therefore have the responsibilities and potential liabilities that go with this type of Trustee status.

A full role description and additional information can be provided by Samantha.Lewis@nmite.ac.uk

Time commitment

Our Board meets six times per year. Most of the meetings are attended face-to-face although options to join virtually when necessary. Members may be asked to provide additional contributions through membership of one of the Board’s sub-committees.  Members with specific expertise may be asked to contribute to NMITE projects or initiatives, this is voluntary and based on willingness and availability. NMITE events are generally scheduled adjacent to Board meetings for the convenience of Members. 

Remuneration

This is an unpaid position. The Institute will meet all reasonable expenses incurred whilst undertaking Board business, for example travel to meetings and key events.

How to apply

Please contact Samantha Lewis on Samantha.Lewis@nmite.ac.uk attaching a resume and supporting narrative explaining your interest in becoming a Board Member and outlining the skills and experience you feel will be of most benefit to the post and the Institute.

We are committed to increasing the diversity of our Board.  NMITE values and is committed to an inclusive working environment, seeking a diverse community, attracting individuals from different backgrounds to contribute to inspirational learning.

Interviews will be conducted via video links and successful candidates will be asked to meet with us in person. New Members will be provided with a thorough induction, their Board Member responsibilities and higher education governance principles.

We are looking to recruit a Learning Resources Technician (Timber)

NMITE is Hereford’s new Higher Education Institute, with its eyes firmly on regional impact and a global reputation. We have ambitious aims to widen access to HE, support lifelong learning in technology and engineering, to support industry and transform careers.

What are we looking for?

Are you a technician/tradesman comfortable operating and maintaining equipment and great with people? Want to use your skills and experience to see a new generation of construction professionals using sustainable materials?

This a unique opportunity to work within NMITE’s Centre for Advanced Timber Technology, located in NMITE Skylon, £7m sustainable building in Skylon Park, Hereford. You’ll take a lead on setting up a new workshop space, installing and managing the practical equipment involved in sustainable forms of construction. You’ll support the development of new demonstrations, activities, models and other resources to help learners understand the delivery of a sustainable built environment. You’ll do this through practical hands-on learning and the appropriate use of digital tools for architectural design and detailing.

Ideally, you’ll be flexible, adaptable and have a desire to develop.

What does the role include?

In this busy and varied role, you will play an important part in the Learning Resources team, working closely with academic staff to design and create practical activities that bring concepts to life for a wide range of professional and student learners. You will:

• prepare and maintain the equipment used for learning, demonstrations, practical class work and project work
• install, condition, maintain and operate prototyping equipment
• provide in-person support to academic staff and students during practical tutorials, demonstrations and sprint projects.
• work with individual learners and teams to support, advise, challenge and debate their ideas and proposals to aid and enhance the learning process supervise, instruct and support students in the manufacture of prototype components maintain risk assessments, establish safe working practice, and ensure compliance with policies and procedures for safe working. This role will report to the Learning Resources Lead and be part of that team. The role will include a lot of autonomy, and daily interaction with the academic team.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential Requirements:

• Qualification in joinery/carpentry or equivalent
• Background in ‘hands-on’ design, manufacture and assembly of construction products, and workshop experience
• Design experience evidence by qualification ideally with the built environment sector (architecture, architectural technology, product design etc) and/or work experience.
• GCSE or equivalent Maths and English
• IT literacy, to include Computer Aided Design, Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Experience in managing stakeholders

Desirable Requirements:

• HND or equivalent in a related field
• teaching, mentoring or coaching experience in an educational or industrial environment
• Construction sector knowledge/construction trades background, ideally with timber experience
• Competence with construction –related software such as AutoCAD and Sketchup, 3D visualisation.
• Experience of compiling information and data and be able to write test or project reports.

Key Skills & Behaviours:

• Genuine commitment to delivering a high-quality learning environment for a breadth of different learners
• Environmentally conscious with a strong interest in delivering the built environment more sustainably.
• Capable of working and communicating across teams
• Reliable, deadline-focussed and able to prioritise own work, seeking and using guidance when needed
• Be able to communicate clearly, professionally, and patiently with a range of colleagues, students and stakeholders

Cultural Alignment

• Equality focused.
• Inclusive
• Respectful
• Creative
• Honest
• Non-judgemental

Location: Rotherwas, Hereford

Our Offer

We offer a Salary Range: £26,473-£27,986 dependant on experience, and a competitive benefits package, including pension scheme, life assurance, 30 days holidays (plus Bank Holidays & closure days), ongoing training & development. Most importantly, NMITE offers you the opportunity to be the change that you want to see.

To apply

Please email a full CV and covering letter to vacancies@nmite.ac.uk. Your covering letter should outline how you meet the person specification. The closing date for applications is 11th November 2022.

For a full job description or Informal questions about the roles please contact the HR Director, Samantha Lewis (Samantha.lewis@nmite.ac.uk).

NMITE is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can be ourselves and succeed on merit. Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented in engineering education. Part time applications will also be considered.

Facilities Technician

NMITE is an innovative new entrant in UK Higher Education, founded to rethink engineering education and positively impact the region - educationally, economically. We have ambitious aims to widen access to HE, support industry, facilitate lifelong learning in technology and engineering, and transform careers.

NMITE welcomed its first students in September 2021 to an accelerated MEng Integrated Engineering. This September, we opened a BEng pathway and a suite of industry-facing short courses in sustainable built environment, delivered from the Centre for Advanced Timber Technology. NMITE’s approach to teaching is progressive and connected – contextualised admissions, active learning, interdisciplinarity, social awareness, and the integration of employers and the community in our teaching and learning.

Duties Include:

• Provide dedicated day-to-day facilities support to the staff, visitors and students using NMITE campus buildings (Hereford city centre and Skylon Park, Rotherwas)
• Arrange and deliver pre-planned and reactive maintenance tasks, while adhering to health and safety standards and best working practices to include some general building repairs and grounds work tasks.
• Organise works required for contractors and services; coordinating contractors on site and ensuring compliance requirements are upheld.
• Carry out regular testing of fire alarm, emergency lighting systems and fire evacuations procedures
• Carry out Portable Appliance Testing as required
• To carry out minor electrical maintenance, such as bulb replacement, changing plugs and fuses on electrical fittings.
• To carry out minor plumbing maintenance such as washer and plug replacement and descaling unblocking sinks and toilets.
• To regularly inspect utilities supplies and provide meter readings
• Complete department administration and filing, including for Contract, Maintenance, Finance and HSE.
• Provide support for emergency response – in relation to estates.
• To undertake any other related duties as may be required by the Estates and Facilities Team.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential Requirements

• Experience in plumbing, heating and ventilation systems, carpentry, painting and/or decorating and minor electrical works
• Computer literate (Microsoft office standard packages (must have excel)
• Able to read technical drawings and manuals

Desirable

• Qualifications - general engineering certificate (BTEC) or equivalent experience and other associated trade certificates

Key Skills & Behaviours

• Health and safety minded
• Flexible
• Responsive
• Self-starting / working on own initiative
• Practical
• Record keeping and documentation
• Can do attitude

Cultural Alignment

• Equality focused.
• Inclusive
• Respectful
• Creative
• Honest
• Non-judgemental

Our offer

We offer a competitive salary ranging from £21,935 to £24,960 and a competitive benefits package, including pension scheme, life assurance, 30 days holidays (plus Bank Holidays & closure days), ongoing training & development. Most importantly, NMITE offers a rewarding and dynamic environment, which promotes our values. NMITE is a young organisation where your impact will be visible and your voice will be heard, and you will be an instrumental part of NMITE’s growth. Be part of it.

Location: Hereford

To apply

Please email a full CV and covering letter to vacancies@nmite.ac.uk. Your covering letter should outline how you meet the person specification. Informal questions about the roles can be addressed to the Director of People & Operations, Samantha Lewis (Samantha.lewis@nmite.ac.uk).

NMITE is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can be ourselves and succeed on merit. Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented in engineering education.

The closing date for completed applications is 22nd December 2022.

Assistant/Associate Professor – Fixed Term/Secondment

NMITE is an innovative new entrant in UK Higher Education with its eyes firmly on regional impact and a global reputation. We have ambitious aims to widen access to HE, support lifelong learning in technology and engineering, to support industry and transform careers.

NMITE’s approach to teaching is highly interactive – we don’t use lectures or traditional exams, but challenge-led, industry-linked learning experiences. You will use these approaches to facilitate and assess learning and will need to be on-campus in Hereford for the duration of the module.

We deliver our curriculum in modules called ‘Sprints’. Delivered in a 9-5 studio-based teaching model over 3.5 weeks.

NMITE’s approach to teaching is highly interactive – we don’t use lectures or traditional exams, but challenge-based, industry-linked learning experiences. You will use these approaches to facilitate and assess learning and will need to be on-campus in Hereford for the duration of the module.

We have the following positions available:

Integrated Systems – 13th February 2023 - 29th March 2023

Co-deliver seminars, workshops, tutorials and directed learning activities for students on a range of topics in integrated systems, including system optimisation, block diagrams, signals and their properties, communication channels and models, modulation, and data rates and error detection.

Essential requirement – A first degree in Electrical, Electronic or Communication Engineering or a cognate discipline to provide background in Communication Engineering and a familiarity with MATLAB or Simulink.

Electromagnetics – 13th February 2023 – 29th March 2023

Co-deliver seminars, workshops, tutorials and directed learning activities for students on a range of topics, including electric and magnetic field; generation of electromagnetic waves; the propagation of waves and their interaction with materials and interfaces; Maxwell’s equations; applications using actuators, motors and generators, and radio and microwave communications.

Essential requirement – A first degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or a cognate discipline to provide background in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Control Systems – 13th March 2023 - 10th May 2023

Co-deliver seminars, workshops, tutorials and directed learning activities for students on a range of topics in control systems, including modelling and analysing the electrical, mechanical and electro-mechanical systems, infused with professional conduct.

Essential requirement – A first degree in Electronical or Mechanical Engineering or a cognate discipline to provide background in Control Systems Engineering.

Advanced Materials – 22nd May 2023 – 5th July 2023

Co-deliver seminars, workshops, tutorials and directed learning activities for students on a range of topics in materials and materials processing, including thermodynamics of materials; processing of materials and materials modelling; and advanced materials.

Essential requirement – A first degree in Materials Science or a cognate discipline to provide background in fundamental solid mechanics.

Job Description

1. Work with a pre-defined curriculum and learning plan to support the delivery of learning experiences and assessment with undergraduate students, in an intensive, highly interactive learning environment.
2. Co-deliver seminars, workshops, tutorials and directed learning activities for students on a range of topics in the associated topic.
3. Act as cover for the module leader in the event that the module leader is unexpectedly unavailable.
4. Work closely with the Academic Skills and Knowhow Centre (ASK) to support the development of students’ underpinning mathematical and professional skills.
5. Directly support the assessment of students’ learning, including marking of written work and grading of oral presentations, providing feedback and feedforward.
6. Be available for limited student consultation during independent study hours to support students’ learning.
7. Support the delivery of an industry-linked learning challenge within the module, liaising with a pre-arranged industry partner and working to bring the challenge to life within the studio learning environment.

Person Specification

Essential

• Empathy with students of diverse ages and backgrounds and an ability to relate new learning to their existing knowledge and backgrounds.
• Willingness to work with and bring to life an established module specification and learning plan.
• Flexibility to work intensively over 6-week period to prepare for, deliver, assess, and provide feedback through the module lifecycle.

Desirable

• A qualification or professional recognition (e.g. HEA Fellowship) in HE teaching.
• Relevant experience in an industry context.
• Experience of assessing learning and providing feedback using established rubrics.

Our Values & Behaviours

NMITE aims to be a game changer. Its staff must be able to balance the need to create a well-run, self-critical institution where good governance and rigorous quality controls are in place, with the need to test (and push) the boundaries of existing practice to create new approaches to engineering education. The way we work together is crucial to this mission and our values and behaviours must reflect this.

Our values:

• Grit and determination. We will be determined in everything we do, demonstrating the staying power needed to see things through.
• Inclusive. We will respect every individual and every voice will be equally important. We will have a community of students learning with people from a variety of backgrounds and our staff team will be equally diverse.
• Creative and learning. We will test the boundaries of existing practice and find new ways of doing things. We will always seek to justify the “new” in our title. We will try new things with humility, accepting mistakes and learning from them. We will always seek to learn from experiences by sharing openly what went well and what went wrong.
• Honest. We will always be courteous and respectful but also honest and straightforward when dealing with each other. We will not hide from uncomfortable truths and staff will be provided with the information they seek to do their jobs and to be well informed about our progress.
• Curious. We will encourage scrutiny from each other and welcome questions from any colleagues – whoever they are and whatever their role. Communication will always be assumed to be a two-way process. Colleagues should always ask for information they feel they need that is not being provided and we will always listen to each other.
• Aligned. We will always work to advance the institution’s mission and its core aims, whatever our role. We will challenge work that does not align with our mission. We will work to break down barriers between teams to ensure that more goals are shared and that we succeed together.

Our offer

This role may suit individuals who are looking for a short-term placement, with potential for further collaboration. If you are an established academic looking to experience alternative approaches to education to enhance your practise, or maybe a PhD candidate looking to enhance your teaching experience, this could be a great opportunity for you.

Alternatively, you may currently be working in industry and would like to contribute to the academic experience. Remuneration commensurate with experience. Range £38,575- £50,678 FTE.

Location: Hereford

To apply

Please email a full CV and a covering letter explaining what you could bring to this role to vacancies@nmite.ac.uk. Your covering letter should outline how you meet the person specification. The closing date for applications is Tuesday 31st January 2023.

For a full job description or Informal questions about the roles please contact the Director of People & Operations, Samantha Lewis (samantha.lewis@nmite.ac.uk).

NMITE is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can be ourselves and succeed on merit. Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented in engineering education.

Assistant/Associate Professors x4 – Engineering and Built Environment (Teaching & Scholarship)

Assistant Professor £38,575 - £50,678 plus benefits described below  

Associate Professor £50,678 - £64,292 plus benefits described below 

Location: Hereford 

Do you have a passion for a different kind of engineering education? Do you have a vision for articulate and self-driven engineering and built environment graduates with exemplary professional skills who can confidently tackle the interdisciplinary problems of the future? If so, you could be a great fit for the NMITE team – this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shape something totally new. 

You might be an established educational innovator looking to take your impact to a new level. You might be earlier in your career, but wanting to develop your own teaching philosophy rather than being to confined to longstanding structures and practices. Perhaps you have a passion for interdisciplinary engineering and technology that integrates the liberal arts? Or maybe you want to see a Higher Education Institute being born. Our current team joined for all these reasons, and more.  

NMITE is an innovative new entrant in UK Higher Education, founded to rethink engineering and technology education and positively impact the region - educationally, economically and socially.  We are the UK’s first ‘greenfield’ HEI in several decades – developed from scratch, we aren’t an evolution of another institution. NMITE’s approach to teaching is progressive and connected – contextualised admissions, active learning, interdisciplinarity, social awareness, and the integration of employers and the community in our teaching and learning. 

NMITE welcomed its first students in September 2021 to an accelerated MEng Integrated Engineering and this course now has 3 cohorts. In September 2023, we plan to launch a Foundation Year, a BSc Sustainable Built Environment, a BEng pathway, unaccelerated engineering programmes, and  industry-facing short courses in sustainable built environment and automated manufacturing.  

To thrive in our environment, you’ll need a deep commitment to facilitating learning, a can-do attitude, and the willingness to learn as NMITE continues to evolve. 

What are we looking for?  

We are currently recruiting for Assistant and Associate Professors who can teach in areas that are relevance to us: structures and materials; dynamics; control; electrical/electronics; flow and heat; built environment. You’ll teach, assess and tutor students, contribute to or lead module and course development, contribute academic voice across NMITE’s decision-making and governance structures, and develop your academic impact outside NMITE. We are specifically looking for at least one Associate Professor who will take on Programme Leadership and line management responsibilities. 

What does the role include? 

Appointments to Assistant/Associate Professor roles will suit capable educators with relevant subject knowledge and the ability to take responsibility for the delivery and development of individual modules and similar elements of NMITE’s academic activity.   Your ability to demonstrate the capabilities below will determine grade of appointment.  

Role responsibilities include:  

Developing and Delivering Teaching 

1. Prepare and lead modules within your field of expertise, assess learning and provide timely individual feedback within NMITE’s quality assurance framework. You will have the capacity to support learning from first year to Master's level and will be enthusiastic about teaching students who are educationally, culturally and cognitively diverse. 

2. Work with industrial and community partners – supported by an Academic Lead for Challenges and a Partnerships Associate - to define projects and challenges that underpin learning. 

3. Build on our collective learning, student feedback, and your own scholarship to enhance the student learning experience and continually improve the ability of students to systematically develop knowledge and skills at the required standard  

4. Contribute to an innovative, high-quality curriculum through development, design, implementation and improvement activities.  

5. Be a personal tutor as allocated 

Helping NMITE Grow 

6. Assist in developing external relationships and partnerships to enhance the academic programme and the institution as a whole. 

7. Take responsibility for an area of leadership that contributes to NMITE’s goals and the interests of the wider HE sector 

8. Willingness to support student recruitment, outreach activities and the broader student experience as requested 

9. Actively follow and promote NMITE’s vision, ethos and policies 

10. Be flexible, adaptable and willing to take on other tasks as necessary to support the entire development and delivery of NMITE 

Developing Scholarship and Impact 

11. Support the development, dissemination, and promotion of the NMITE pedagogy and approach to the broader engineering and built environment education community. 

12. Demonstrate your commitment to your own CPD and growing your professional standing. 

13. Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of pedagogical practice in your area of expertise, developing and demonstrating your potential to model and advocate scholarly, evidence-based teaching. 

14. Engage actively and productively with other areas of NMITE outside the academic team 

In return, we offer a rewarding and dynamic environment with small-group teaching and a workload model that supports all of the activities above. Academic staff can access a personal development budget, developmental support from senior staff across NMITE, a promotion pathway and a sabbatical scheme. NMITE is a young organisation where your impact will be visible and your voice will be heard, and you will be an instrumental part of NMITE’s growth.  

Qualifications & Experience 

Essential Requirements:  

• Interest in engineering education and a desire to teach future engineers in a forward-looking, unique, start-up HEI 

•  experience of high-quality teaching and positive student feedback in higher education 

• Demonstrable ability to teach an area of relevance to our portfolio  

• Some experience of active learning and assessment-for-learning strategies 

• Specialist knowledge in cognate fields consistent with the job description 

• PhD in relevant discipline 

• experience of working in productive and positive teams 

Desirable Requirements: 

• As there are opportunities to teach outside your core specialism, for example in other technical and transferable skills, the ability and willingness to teach in a range of areas will be an advantage 

• Chartered engineer (or equivalent international professional engineering registration) 

• Experience of using and/or developing novel pedagogies 

• Knowledge of teaching and learning theory and practice in an HE context 

• Experience in pastoral/academic tutoring 

Our Benefits 

We offer a competitive salary  and benefits package including 

• Pension scheme  

• Life assurance  

• 30 days holidays (plus Bank Holidays & closure days) 

• Flexible working arrangements 

• Mental Health training  

• Employee Assistance Programme 

• Westfield Health & Rewards 

To apply 

Please email your description of why you are a good fit for the role in the form of a covering letter or a video of up to 4 minutes and a full CV to vacancies@nmite.ac.uk.   

Informal questions about the roles can be addressed to the Director of People & Operations, Samantha Lewis (Samantha.lewis@nmite.ac.uk) 

NMITE is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can be ourselves and succeed on merit. Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented in engineering education. Part time proposals and secondment arrangements may also be considered.  

The closing date for completed applications is 20th January 2023  

Research Assistant in Higher Education 

Location: home-based, some travel necessary

Terms: fixed fee; part-time; temporary

NMITE leads a coalition of partners that has been awarded a collaborative enhancement project by the UK Quality Assurance Agency titled "When Quality Assurance meets Innovation in Higher Education”.  We are seeking a fixed-term, part-time research assistant/associate to support the partners in the project work.

About the Project

The project focuses on how institutions are developing and supporting dynamic quality assurance processes. UK HE providers face sustained and competing pressures that underpin the need to evaluate and enhance teaching and learning, course design, and portfolio in a timely manner. Providers are constantly evolving whilst operating within a complex architecture of external regulation – this often results in QA processes which seem to suppress innovation and inhibit improvement. How providers are balancing these priorities is a relevant and timely question, and this project argues that the differences and commonalities that exist between new and existing providers present an opportunity for timely comparative and evaluation work.  This project aims to identify the key quality assurance domains that are perceived to most impact innovation and explore how they facilitate or constrain when institutions seek to innovate.  

About the Role

The research assistant/associate will:

• write an orienting literature review/review of practice (by April 2023)
• prepare a research ethics submission (by April 2023)
• design, run and analyse the survey (by early June 2023)
• design, host and transcribe the focus groups (by August 2023)
• participate in the interpretation of findings (September 2023)

The fixed fee available for this work is £10,000 including travel, subsistence and materials.   The research assistant/associate will be supported by the partnering institutions, which includes academic and QA staff from NMITE, Swansea University, TEDI-London, Arden University and Arts University Bournemouth.   If a later opportunity for scholarly output is realised in this work, the research assistant/associate will be invited to collaborate.

About You

You should have a PhD or be nearing completion in higher education management, or a field closely relevant to the project, and have experience of survey design and analysis, interviews, focus groups. Alternatively, you may come from an independent research or praxis background and have a relevant track record.

Good time management skills and planning skills with a commitment to reliable delivery are required in this role, and you will have good collaboration skills and the ability to communicate effectively in-person and digitally.

How to Apply

Please submit a CV with all relevant information, together with a covering letter outlining your proposal for how you would deliver the project within the resources and deadlines stated above, to vacancies@nmite.ac.uk

Informal questions about the roles can be addressed to the Director of People & Operations, Samantha Lewis (Samantha.lewis@nmite.ac.uk)

NMITE is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can be ourselves and succeed on merit. Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented in engineering education.

Deadline for applications: Friday, 24 February 2023.
Interviews for shortlisted candidates will be held week commencing Monday, 27 February.