Fusion Skills Outreach Manager
Overview of Responsibilities
The salary for this role is £37,509. Onsite working is expected for 3 days a week, however, we actively support requests for flexible working.
This role is based at the following site; Culham, Oxfordshire.
This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data.
The Role
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Fusion Skills Outreach Manager, you will play a pivotal role in helping to support the growth of existing outreach activities and the design and development of new ones, with a focus on future fusion recruitment and skills provision. You will be involved in delivering outreach activities to education groups in and around key UKAEA fusion sites (Oxfordshire, Yorkshire, and the STEP fusion powerplant site in Notts / Lincs) and more nationally on occasion.
Key Accountabilities:
- Organise and deliver (additional to the core UKAEA outreach programme) schools and university visits and workshops at the Culham site and a programme of visits from UKAEA staff to schools (primary and secondary) – with inclusive criteria for attendance.
- Devise specific ‘skills’ outreach activities 1) for the UK’s fusion powerplant design programme – STEP, specifically to support a new skills centre at STEP’s West Burton site in Nottinghamshire and 2) Fusion Skills days – where students have a high intensity engagement around fusion skills and careers + visits to site, workshops, talks etc.
- Organise, with the UKAEA education and public outreach manager, 2-3 fusion teacher conferences per year – in fusion areas of expertise and more nationally, supported with fusion related teacher materials.
- Organise a fusion presence at one education/skills focussed science festival per year. Oversee all aspects of stand design, staffing and training – as well as delivery.
- Develop and pilot university fusion awareness campaign – growing and broadening the existing graduate ambassador scheme and developing resources to support this activity.
Qualifications
Essential:
- Experience and demonstrable ability to co-ordinate activities with multiple internal and external partners.
- Experience developing, organising and delivering STEM outreach activities.
- Good public speaker and presenter to a wide variety of differing audiences, especially with primary/secondary schools and universities students.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Good team player.
Desirable:
- Qualification or experience equivalent to a degree in a scientific or engineering discipline.
- Experience in evaluating science communication activities.
- Experience and understanding of safeguarding policies and legislation.
- Interest in sustainable energy and net zero.
- UK driving license.
Additional Information
A full list of our benefits can be found here https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/.
We welcome talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission. We encourage applications from under-represented groups, particularly from women in STEM, people from Black British Caribbean and African, Pakistani and Bangladeshi British, and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and neurotypical individuals. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) and Wellbeing and our EDI Networks actively promote Inclusion and takes steps to increase diversity within our organisation. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.
Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.
For applicants applying from outside the United Kingdom or those who have spent time outside the UK in the last five years, please visit the following link for information on criminal records checks: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants If your country of residence or previous residence is not listed on the website or if the UK Government does not have information on obtaining a criminal records check from that state, we regret to inform you that we cannot process your application.
