Reporter 23/7/03: Vacancy in the University

Vacancy in the University

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Any job application submitted with a curriculum vitae should be accompanied by a Cover Sheet for Employment (Form PD18) which can be downloaded from http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/personnel/forms/pd18, or may be obtained in hard copy from the advertising Department or Faculty.

UNIVERSITY OFFICE

University Lectureship in the Faculty of Engineering

A vacancy exists for a University Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering to take up appointment on 1 October 2003 or as soon as possible thereafter. The person appointed will be expected to take part in the general teaching of the four-year course leading to the B.A. and M.Eng. Degrees, as well as to play a major role in a thriving research group with a strong international reputation. The Cambridge Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Group now has 60 staff and graduate students.

Preference will be given to suitably qualified applicants with a record of achievement in fundamental geotechnical research linked to technological developments in industry. The person appointed will be expected to develop undergraduate and graduate projects with an industrial linkage, and to be willing to teach courses within the broad band of geotechnical engineering.

Appointments made at University Lecturer level will be for an initial period of three or five years, with reappointment thereafter subject to satisfactory performance. The pensionable scale of stipends for a University Lecturer is currently £23,296 a year, rising by eleven annual increments to £35,950.

Further particulars and an application form may be obtained from the Secretary of the Faculty Board of Engineering, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ (tel. 01223 332615, fax 01223 766364, e-mail fb-office@eng.cam.ac.uk) to whom each candidate should return a completed application form and a curriculum vitae by 15 August 2003. Information about the Cambridge Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Group can be obtained from its website at http://www-civ.eng.cam.ac.uk/geotech_new/.

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