The School of Global Affairs is a vibrant hub of multi-disciplinary scholarship that seeks to address and resolve the most pressing issues facing our world today.

By drawing together a unique cohort of scholars, our School covers expertise in global environmental governance, climate change, global health, cross-border migration, emerging economies and politics. We’re comprised of the Departments of Geography, International Development and Global Health & Social Medicine, the African Leadership Centre and the Global Institutes (Lau China, India, Brazil and Menzies Australia).

 

Why work for the School of Global Affairs?  See https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/sgaps

 

The Department of Geography is a vibrant community of students, teachers and researchers. Our holistic approach encompasses both physical geography, environmental science, and human geography perspectives on global challenges and pressing environmental, social, urban and rural issues. Our research findings contribute to public debates and policy development at national and international scales, making important contributions to environmental protection, climate change, disasters, smart cities, risk regulation, water, human migration and wildfire hazards. We are also deeply committed to tackling pressing matters of social justice around the world. We undertake field research in over 95 countries across seven continents. Our John B Thornes laboratory supports teaching and research for a range of activities including water chemistry, sedimentology, geomorphology, hazards and fluid dynamics. Meanwhile, using London as a laboratory, our students and staff study air and water quality, migration, transport, housing, displacement, and health impacts on Londoners.

The Department of Geography is seeking an engineer for a rare opportunity to join its highly skilled departmental technical team, supporting research-focused technical operations.

 

The role-holder will be responsible for running the departmental workshop and makerspace, and to contribute to departmental environmental science research focused on field deployed low-cost sensors. They will also manage communication, data storage, power delivery, weather proofing and maintenance of field equipment.

 

The ideal candidate will have a background in engineering, physical sciences or related discipline, with experience running or maintaining a rapid prototyping / makerspace environment, ideally within a higher education or research setting.  They will have knowledge and experience of laboratory and/or workshop health and safety, general technical support/troubleshooting, training and supervision across the range of workshop-based activities.

 

The role reports to the Senior Technical Manager (Operations).

 

This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

 

The successful candidate will be an active member of the King’s Technical Network, engaging in initiatives to strengthen and share best practice, with an ongoing commitment to professional development.