A fully rounded academic training role including PhD, PGCert (learning and teaching in higher education) and teaching contact time with fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.

A charity which aims to nurture young people with academic promise. Governing statement: The advancement of the education of young people, still in full-time education, within a context of promoting better international understanding, and including young people from less privileged circumstances or backgrounds

English Language Summer SchoolAssistant Course Manager 2017-Present- Student pastoral care- Building and maintaining relationships with key internal and external stakeholders - Organising student trips- Managing student pocket money- Support and consultancy to the staff team (~20 staff)- Ensuring a positive working environment where staff can excelSport/Social 2011-2014- Managing a team of 10+ people.- Leading a briefing session each morning and tasking jobs to be completed.- Maintaining a motivated and happy working environment.- Overseeing the programme of sport and social activities for the students at the summer school.- Communicating clearly and effectively with non native speakers.- Communicating with other senior staff to ensure smooth running of the course.- Leading large groups on external trips.- Managing a budget.- Collecting, processing and recording relevant expenses.- Ensuring staff are always using time efficiently.- Overseeing the maintanence of all equipment, including public announcement equipment.- Creating new events and activities each year to ensure progession was always apparent.- Organising the sports training throughout the course culminating with a sports day towards the end.- Being flexible and adapting to weather constraints by ensuring a few reserve events were always organised in case of adverse weather conditions.- Supervising and developing apprentices for staff positions the following year.

- Providing technical support.- Assisting staff and students to solve any technical issues that may have arisen.- Demonstrating the set up and use of equipment and techniques to staff and students.- Completing regular functionality checks and repairing if needed.- Ensuring calibration of equipment when needed.- Raising orders, following stringent financial procedure.- Organising the preparation of laboratories for teaching, research projects and student dissertations.- Maintaining apparatus and equipment to meet the requirements of BASES accreditation.- Sterilising respiratory apparatus, ensuring safe procedures and COSHH considered.- Undertaking preventative maintanence of equipment.- Produce short instruction guides for scientific equipment.- Managing the booking and equipment loan service for staff and students.- Handling and storing of compressed gas cylinders.- Assisting with teaching modules up to level 6.- Monitoring stocks and use of consumables, maintaining records and arranging replenishments when necessary.- The construction and maintenence of scientific and sports equipment.- Maintaining a safe working environment.- Ensuring a good level of continuing professional development.- Assisting with the assessment on modules.

- Managing a number of sites.- Designing programme structure.- Promoting and marketing for programmes.- Achieving specific performance targets set at the beginning of the course.- Clear instructions and demonstrations.- Identifying weaknesses and implementing strategies to improve them.- Excellent planning with emphasis on teaching points in each session.- Reliable time management.- Efficient use of voice projection.- Utilising an up to date knowledge of rules, tactics and techniques.- Team selection.- Ensuring players safety.- Planning sessions with a particular focus on doubles tactics.- Ensuring a positive and enthusiastic manner to motivate students.- Identifying key points to work on and adapting sessions to suit.- Leading recreational sessions.

- Various events throughout the year (e.g. Aegon International, Airbourne, Beachy Head Marathon etc.)- Preparing grounds for Aegon International tennis tournament.- Manual handling of furniture and equipment.- Logistical planning to ensure efficiency.- Taking initiative when supervisor not available.- Dressing courts to a high standard of presentation.- Covering courts quickly and efficiently as part of a team.- Maintaining appearance of grounds.- Ensuring rubbish bins are maintained presentable and useable.- Driving the company van.- Ensuring the site is secure in the evening.- Maintenance of equipment when necessary.

- Managing staff on duty in the centre.- Ensuring centre cleanliness at all times.- Supervising the cashing up process.- Creating and managing the membership database.- Maintaining and repairing if needed, facilities and equipment to good working order.- Dealing with any customer issues to resolve in a fair but timely manner.- Responsible for building security whilst on shift including the opening and closing of the centre.- Creating promotional material.- Dealing with bookings and enquiries.- Ensuring equipment needed for sessions was set up to a high standard before the session was due to start.

- Planning and leading sport and exercise science practical sessions.- Teaching a variety of exercise testing techniques, utilising a range of equipment both in the lab and field settings.- Delivering presentations to groups of students and parents.- Supervising students in order to maintain a safe environment.- Organising social activities for students.- Demonstrating what it is like to study at university.- Communicating with students and parents to answer any questions about university life.- Managing a team of ambassadors for lab and field based practical sessions.- Demonstrating how to use exercise testing equipment to staff and students.- Representing the university on open days.

A voluntary position assisting a research project entitled "The effect of heat exposure on immune function in fire service instructors"; funded by a number of fire and rescue services nationally.The research involved a range of protocols in both lab and field environments, including exercise tests such as anthropometry, basic health check, lactate threshold and max tests; physiological monitoring of core temperature, sweat rate, blood markers, hydration status, physiological strain index and perceptual measures including various questionnaires and classic measures of RPE, thermal sensation and thermal comfort.

A voluntary role involving physiological assessment of junior and senior athletes in association with England Athletics through lactate threshold and VO2max testing. Followed by educatiing athletes and coaches as to how they can be used for training and profiling purposes. The role also included profiling of elite and sub-elite athletes pre and post a training programme using similar tests in preparation for spring marathons.

Working with the Sport and Exercise Science Consultancy Unit. This role involved disseminating information to the general public about how sport and exercise science can be used by patients to elite athletes, through demonstrating a number of physiological assessments at the Brighton Science Festival and teaching A-level and BTEC students.