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Job Description
£40,497 to £48,149 per annum, pro-rata if part-time
CSE / School of Geosciences
Full-time: 35 hours per week
Fixed-term: for 12 months
The Opportunity
Join the University of Edinburgh to establish biochar as a Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR) technology with defined benefits to mainstream crop production in diverse farming systems. This role will guide the demonstration of biochar products in commercial settings internationally and nationally. In this role you will also lead on the development, testing and modelling of biochars at our laboratories in Edinburgh. This is strategic work that we seek to expand, in enabling responsible scaling of biochar solutions at global level.
Job Description
Grade UE07: £40,497 to £48,149 per annum, pro-rata if part-time
CSE / School of Geosciences
Full-time: 35 hours per week
Fixed-term: for 12 months
The Opportunity
Join the University of Edinburgh to establish biochar as a Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR) technology with defined benefits to mainstream crop production in diverse farming systems. This role will guide the demonstration of biochar products in commercial settings internationally and nationally. In this role you will also lead on the development, testing and modelling of biochars at our laboratories in Edinburgh. This is strategic work that we seek to expand, in enabling responsible scaling of biochar solutions at global level.
This post is full-time (35 hours per week), though we will consider part-time or flexible working patterns as well as requests for non-contractual hybrid working (combining a mix of remote and regular on-campus presence).
The post is fixed term for 12 months. Please note the project end date is 30 September 2026, so the successful candidate must be in post prior to 1 October 2025.
This post will be appointed at Grade UE07, Step 1, which is £40,497 per annum.
Your Skills And Attributes For Success
* A strong postgraduate research qualification.
* Experience of laboratory and field research in crops and soil.
* Skills in environmental modelling and statistics.
* A positive record in scientific publication / report writing.
* Evidence of strong team working in research setting.
Industry and international field experience, especially in West Africa, are highly desirable.
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Application Information
Please ensure you include the following documents in your application:
* CV
* Cover letter
As a valued member of our team you can expect:
* A competitive salary.
* An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
* To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
* Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, competitive pension schemes, staff discounts, and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits.
Championing equality, diversity and inclusion
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab).
The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office’s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Skilled Worker Visa. Please note if the role is offered on a part-time basis, it may result in sponsorship being dependent on a number of factors specific to the successful applicant or the role no longer meeting the Home Office’s criteria for sponsorship.
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 13 th June 2025.
Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.
Interviews will be held 26 th June 2025.
About Us
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
About The Team
The School of GeoSciences explores the factors and forces that shape our world. The School aims to understand the world through fundamental curiosity-driven research and to support prescient decision-making at individual to global scales. We undertake world-leading research; offer new ways of understanding natural and social drivers of change; provide inter-and trans-disciplinary solutions; and work in partnership to improve livelihoods and explore ways to manage the environment that are both sustainable and socially equitable.
With over 500 academics, researchers and research students, we are the largest and most successful interdisciplinary grouping of geoscientists and geographers in the UK. Research activity is coordinated within three main Research Institutes – Global Change, Earth and Planetary Science, and Geography and the Lived Environment – and within smaller research groupings that reach across and beyond the School.
A distinctive feature of the School is the combination of academic strength, intellectual breadth and societal relevance. Our interdisciplinary research and teaching builds on established core disciplines (ecology, environmental sciences, geography, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography) to provide a variety of approaches to understanding the world (including, for example, system-scale modelling, process studies and the development of urban and social theory). The School’s research covers fundamental ‘blue-skies’ questions, as well as having application to key societal challenges including inequality and vulnerability; urban precarity; nature and cultural meaning; development and sustainability; climate and environmental change; energy, food and water security; health and wellbeing; natural resources; and natural hazards.
The School of GeoSciences aims to recognise and value diversity in our staff and students, and to support flexible and family-friendly working.
More details about the School is available from http://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences
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