Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Air Transport Management

Role Description

A rare opportunity to join the globally recognised Cranfield Centre for Air Transport Management, we welcome applications from passionate educators to join our team.

About the Role

As a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer within the Centre for Air Transport Management, you will play a significant role in the development and delivery of high-quality teaching at the post-graduate level as well as designing and delivering continuous professional development short courses.

In this role you will supervise Master’s and PhD students, and undertake leadership of defined Modules of study within the MSc programme. You will also undertake research projects and be involved in the generation of new business as well as the management of commercial and consultancy projects.

At the Senior Lecturer level, you will be expected to play a strong leadership role, providing creative approaches to ensuring education content and delivery are consistently innovated to address the contemporary issues and needs of the aviation industry and students of air transport management. At this level, you would be required to undertake course management, business development, consultancy and research proposals and represent the Centre to senior internal and external stakeholders.

About You

With a post-graduate qualification in a field related to aviation or air transport management, ideally educated to doctoral level, or equivalent industry experience, you will have a passion for aviation and a commitment to academic teaching and research. With excellent communication skills, you will have experience of teaching, training, research and project management. You will be experienced in the design, development and delivery of post-graduate education, continuous professional development courses, research and projects. You will bring curiosity and creative thinking to developing our educational and research activities with relevance to aviation industry needs and requirements. Confident and capable to interact with external industry partners, you will be comfortable working independently and as part of a team, commercially astute as well as intellectually versatile.

About Us

As a specialist postgraduate university, Cranfield’s world-class expertise, large-scale facilities and unrivalled industry partnerships are creating leaders in technology and management globally. Learn more about Cranfield and our unique impact .

The Centre for Air Transport Management is a globally recognised Centre for post-graduate teaching in air transport management with a worldwide reputation for excellence in research in aviation. The Centre has a proud heritage, principally from its internationally renowned MSc courses in Air Transport Management (ATM), available in both full-time and part-time flexible format, and in Airport Planning and Management (APM). Graduates from these courses can be found in senior management roles across the world and throughout the aviation industry. The Centre is also home to an exciting portfolio of short courses, industry consulting and research activity.

Our Values and Commitments

Our shared, stated values help to define who we are and underpin everything we do: Ambition; Impact; Respect; and Community. Find out more .

We aim to create and maintain a culture in which everyone can work and study together and realise their full potential. We are a Disability Confident Employer and proud members of the Stonewall Diversity Champions Programme. We are committed to actively exploring flexible working options for each role and have been ranked in the Top 30 family friendly employers in the UK by the charity . Find out more about our key commitments to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Flexible Working .

Working Arrangements

Collaborating and connecting are integral to so much of what we do. Our Working Arrangements Framework provides many staff with the opportunity to flexibly combine on-site and remote working, where job roles allow, balancing the needs of our community of staff, students, clients and partners.