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The University is committed to equality of opportunity.
Applications are invited for the following University office:
The University is seeking enthusiastic and experienced professionals to join the small team providing procurement support services to approximately 140 Departments.
These are new posts and will assist with the development of best purchasing practices for the University and will deliver appropriate training to departmental buyers. Working across the full range of spend, the successful candidates will use their initiative to identify priority categories and design, and to sell and implement solutions which reduce cost and contribute to the University's objectives.
Candidates will be expected to draw on their experience in tendering, whole life costing evaluation, and contract management, and will arrange framework agreements in addition to assisting non-procurement staff to obtain value for money. Candidates will also have the opportunity to represent the University at meetings of the regional purchasing consortia.
For the Senior Purchasing Officer post, candidates must have at least three years' work experience in procurement, including responsibility for tendering and supply chain management. The following are also required: a full CIPS qualification or equivalent; excellent interpersonal, influencing, and communication ability. Ideally, the successful candidate will have an area of expertise aligned to one of the University's major commodity expenditure areas. The pensionable scale of stipends for an Administrative Officer, Grade I, is currently £24,435 to £29,709 a year.
The purchasing officer will be at least part-qualified and willing to complete in the next two years. The pensionable scale of stipends for an Administrative Officer, Grade II, is currently £20,470 to £26,491 a year.
For both posts, candidates will have strong analytical skills, will be self motivated, and will be able to prioritize and work to tight deadlines. Experience of public sector procurement, and a devolved budget operation would be an advantage.
Additional details and application forms are available from Mrs L. Wilkins, Finance Division, Greenwich House, Madingley Rise, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0TX (tel. 01223 339657, e-mail lmw29@admin.cam.ac.uk). Completed forms must be received by 15 November 2002.
The Council are seeking to appoint the Cambridge Executive Director for the Cambridge-MIT collaboration with effect from 1 January 2003 in succession to Professor Alan Windle, FRS, who will be finishing his secondment following the successful establishment of CMI's Cambridge based activities. The Executive Director will be responsible to the Vice-Chancellor for the further development of the Institute and its activities. S/he will be a Director of CMI Ltd, the joint venture vehicle established by the University and by MIT.
This is a part-time appointment which, over a year, is expected to average approximately three days a week. Payment will be linked to the professorial scale at Cambridge University with additional payment for administrative responsibility. In the case of appointees already holding a University office, the post will be filled by secondment.
The Cambridge Executive Director will be someone with a high academic reputation, with a good understanding of Cambridge, and experienced in management.
There is no formal application form. Letters of application should be sent to the Vice-Chancellor, The Old Schools, Cambridge, CB2 1TN, to arrive no later than Wednesday, 13 November 2002.
Owing to the generosity of the Isaac Newton Trust, the Faculty of Classics is able to advertise a temporary Newton Trust Affiliated Lectureship, for appointment from 1 January 2003 until 30 September 2004. The terms of the scheme require that Newton Trust Affiliated Lecturers are Fellows of Colleges who are non-University Teaching Officers but who receive their prime stipend from their College for teaching undergraduates.
Newton Trust Affiliated Lecturers are expected to give twenty-four lectures a year for the Faculty, to examine from time to time, to supervise Research Students, and to be involved in Faculty teaching arrangements. Affiliated Lecturers will be paid at the current University hourly rate for lectures given and, in addition, will receive a payment of £750 a year.
The Faculty will be hoping to make an appointment in any area of Classics. As with all appointments in the Faculty, the Newton Trust Affiliated Lecturer will be expected to contribute to language teaching.
Applications, including an up-to-date curriculum vitae, a list of publications, and a letter from the applicant's College, giving approval in principle to participation in the scheme, and the name of one referee, should reach the Secretary of the Appointing Committee, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA, by 15 November 2002. Further information concerning the scheme is available at http://www.newtontrust.cam.ac.uk/. Further information concerning the Faculty of Classics is available at http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/.
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Cambridge University Reporter, 30 October 2002
Copyright © 2002 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars
of the University of Cambridge.