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Assistant Professor in Sustainable Innovation Entrepreneurship Dubai - School of Social Policy [...]
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School of Social Policy and Society
Discipline: College of Social Sciences
University of Birmingham Dubai campus
Salary: Competitive
Grade: 8
No. of positions: 1
Full time
Location: Dubai UAE
Closing date: 13th May 2025
Academic Development Programme: new Assistant Professors will undertake a 5-year development programme at the end of which they are expected to be promoted to Associate Professor. The programme consists of a variety of development opportunities and the time to reflect and develop.
University of Birmingham Dubai: Having established ourselves in Dubai International Academic City in 2018, we have now moved to our new state-of-the-art campus which opened in Sept 2021. These posts represent an excellent opportunity to join an ambitious World Top 100 University as we continue to grow our long-term strategic mission in Dubai, the UAE, and the wider region.
Background: The Department of Management, part of the triple-accredited Birmingham Business School at the University of Birmingham, is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor (Education focused) in Sustainable Innovation & Entrepreneurship. This role forms part of a wider investment into the School's academic excellence.
The successful candidate will contribute to teaching and learning on both new and established programmes as well as undertake knowledge transfer leadership and service activities in line with the strategic objectives of the Department, the Business School, and the College.
The Department of Management has a collegial culture with over 90 faculty organised across four subject groups. The post holder will become a member of the Entrepreneurship Leadership and Innovation (ELI) subject group. The ELI Group makes significant contributions to our undergraduate, postgraduate, and MBA teaching portfolio in the areas of Sustainable Innovation & Entrepreneurship. It is anticipated that the post holder will contribute to both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in our Dubai campus. The role will sometimes require teaching during weekends or evenings.
In return, you will receive a competitive package and play a key role in our ambitious University's expansion as we enhance our international reputation and global footprint.
Role Summary: You will contribute to a range of education-related activities. In addition, you will be expected to demonstrate academic citizenship, developing and maintaining mutually respectful and supportive working relationships with all staff and students and ensuring the way you carry out your role impacts positively on how others carry out theirs.
Teaching is likely to include a substantial contribution to: (a) the management development and delivery of teaching and assessment at all levels; and (b) enhancement of the student experience and employability. The role will typically also involve developing and advising others including: (a) providing expert advice to staff and students and (b) developing and advising others on learning and teaching tasks and methods.
You will be expected to advance teaching and learning practice in your modules within the school, take a role in leading curriculum development, and play an important role in student academic and pastoral support. You will deliver excellent teaching that inspires students and is informed by discipline-based research.
Management and administration is likely to include developing and making substantial contributions to knowledge transfer, enterprise, business engagement, public engagement, widening participation, schools outreach, or similar activities at Department/School level or further within the University.
Main Duties
Education
You will contribute across the range of teaching and learning activities:
- Contribute to leading curriculum development and/or renewal;
- Develop and manage approaches to teaching and learning that are best practice in the subject area or institution;
- Advise others on aspects of learning, teaching, and assessment;
- Deliver (where appropriate to the discipline) specific professional programmes;
- Advance the practice of teaching in their modules and within the school and play an important role in student academic support;
- Inform your teaching practice by discipline-based research;
- Frequently update your subject expertise and undertake personal professional development in teaching including self-reflection on own teaching using student and peer review feedback to enhance own teaching and learning processes;
- You may play an important role in the recruitment and admission of students; and co-supervise doctoral students to completion.
Using a variety of methods in teaching and advising individuals and groups of undergraduates, postgraduates, or CPD students including (as appropriate):
- Teaching and examining courses at a range of levels;
- Planning and reviewing your own teaching approaches and encouraging others to do the same;
- Designing contemporary, inclusive, engaging, and academically challenging curriculum content;
- Working collaboratively with colleagues to design and deliver teaching, learning, and assessment;
- Using digital resources/environments effectively to support learning and assessment;
- Developing programme proposals and making substantial contributions to the design of teaching programmes more widely;
- Where appropriate, undertaking and developing the full range of responsibilities in relation to supervision, marking, and examining;
- Developing and advising others on learning and teaching tasks and methods;
- Developing and making substantial contributions to knowledge transfer, enterprise, business engagement, public engagement activities or similar on own specialism that enhances the student experience or employability and which benefits the College and University;
- Devising and supervising projects, student dissertations, and practical work.
Management/Administration
To contribute to Departmental/School administration. This may include:
- Contributing to the administration/management of teaching across the Department/School;
- Where appropriate, leading and managing a team to devise and implement a new and/or revised process (e.g. new programme or a recruitment drive);
- Advising on personal development of colleagues and students;
- Making a contribution to administrative activities within the University (e.g. appeals panels, working groups);
- Managing enterprise, business development, and public engagement activities;
- Developing and making substantial contributions to knowledge transfer, enterprise, business engagement, public engagement, widening participation, schools outreach;
- Promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion through monitoring and evaluation and actively challenging unacceptable behaviour.
Citizenship
Contributing to an inclusive working environment:
- Pursuing your activities in a way that helps others to pursue their activities effectively and efficiently;
- Demonstrating a willingness to be involved in a variety of activities supporting University life (e.g. participation in graduation, Departmental/School committees);
- Demonstrating support for colleagues such as sharing resources, providing advice;
- Willingness to volunteer for one-off duties (such as supporting School, Institute, and Departmental projects);
- Positively engaging in School strategic initiatives;
- Proactive support and involvement in activities specifically contributing to a positive and inclusive community spirit across the School/College/University.
Person Specification
- Normally a higher Degree relevant to the discipline area (usually PhD) or equivalent qualifications.
- Extensive teaching experience and scholarship within subject specialism.
- Proven ability to devise, advise on, and manage learning.
- Skills in managing, motivating & mentoring others.
Teaching
- Ability to design, deliver, assess, and revise teaching programmes.
- Extensive experience and demonstrated success in developing appropriate approaches to learning and teaching and advising colleagues.
- Experience and achievement in knowledge transfer, enterprise, and similar activity that enhances the student experience or employability.
Management Administration
- Ability to contribute to School/Departmental management processes.
- Ability to assess and organise resources effectively.
- Understanding of and ability to contribute to broader management/administration processes.
- Experience of championing Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in own work area.
- Ability to monitor and evaluate the extent to which equality and diversity legislation, policies, procedures are applied.
- Ability to identify issues with the potential to impact on protected groups and take appropriate action.
For informal enquiries please contact Dr Christopher Collinge email: (Dubai Campus) Fiona Oster email: and Dr Yong Lin email: (Edgbaston Campus)
We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of University of Birmingham staff and that diversity in its many forms is a strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation, and debate at the heart of University life. We are committed to proactively addressing the barriers experienced by some groups in our community and are proud to hold Athena SWAN, Race Equality Charter, and Disability Confident accreditations. We have an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Centre that focuses on continuously improving the University as a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone has the opportunity to succeed. We are also committed to sustainability which is a key part of our strategy. You can find out more about our work to create a fairer university for everyone on our website.
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Job Description The ideal candidate will lead initiatives to generate and engage with business partners to build new business for the company. This candidate will be focused and have strong communication skills. Duties and Responsibilities:
- Building a robust client pipeline across inbound and outbound leads.
- Actively engaging in online and offline industry events and forums to engage with prospective customers, decision-makers, and influencers.
- Managing the lead bank and analyzing the clients as per the company’s target audience.
- Process market research to build the prospect’s profile using online and offline data resources
- Identify and qualify the prospect leads and keep them updated.
- Working independently to identify the best strategies to reach out to and engage new clients.
- Developing and executing strategies for targeting strategic sectors and regions.
- Becoming a product expert, its market positioning, and the solutions it offers, backed up by relevant and compelling case studies.
- Working alongside the Technology, Product, and other internal teams to develop market-leading propositions for prospective partners.
- Led the development of sales materials to support the Sales Team’s efforts.
- Managing the sales process CRM system
- Arrange meetings and assign qualified leads to the Sales Consultant Team.
- Bachelor’s degree in business management or administration, or a related field.
- The ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent problem-solving and management skills.
- Exceptional negotiation skills.
- Effective communication skills.
- Strong business acumen.
- Detail-oriented.
Business Development
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Posted on 02/14/2025
TLG Global is a fast-growing company, expanding its presence in Portugal and beyond. In just one year, our immigration and investment services have successfully assisted over 350 applicants . Now, we are taking our successful business model to the next level and expanding our operations!
What we expect from you:
- Promote our immigration and investment solutions in Dubai and other international markets .
- Identify and acquire new clients and business opportunities.
- Support and guide clients, answering questions and providing consultations.
- Build and maintain relationships with key partners and stakeholders.
- Travel for meetings and events to represent the company and grow the client base.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in B2B sales or business development .
- Mandatory experience or knowledge in business immigration .
- Strong network and existing client base in the immigration and investment sector is a major plus .
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
- Willingness to travel and always be available for potential clients and partners.
Career growth and professional development.
Supportive and collaborative team culture.
Business Development
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- Develop a growth strategy focused on both financial gain and customer satisfaction.
- Conduct research to identify new markets and customer needs in new countries.
- Create new opportunities, services, and by-products leveraging existing products.
- Establish the company's brand to enhance visibility and recognition.
- Promote the company’s products and services by addressing or predicting clients’ objectives and needs.
- Arrange business meetings with prospective clients to foster new business relationships.
- Prepare pre-sales contracts, ensuring adherence to law-established rules and guidelines.
- Maintain accurate records of sales activities, revenue, invoices, and other relevant documentation.
- Provide trustworthy feedback and after-sales support to ensure customer satisfaction.
- Build long-term relationships with new and existing customers.
- Drive the company’s transition from Tier 3 to Tier 2/1 status through strategic growth and customer engagement.
- Proven experience as a business development professional or in a relevant role.
- Experience in customer support and engagement.
- In-depth market knowledge and trend analysis skills.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
- Ability to build rapport and establish strong working relationships with clients.
Business Development
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Uzbek Speaking – Live Stream Coordinator
The Role:
We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, and passionate presenter to join our team. You will host, stream, and analyse live stream shows, and conduct live sessions, training, and interviews with our forex instructors and special guests.
The main responsibilities of the position include:- Produce scripts and host live broadcasting videos for our live education platform
- Introduce traders to our products and services to improve their trading experience
- Interview guests live online, interact with the audience, and respond positively and quickly to their chat requests
- Perform research and present new ideas for the livestream rooms
- Work closely with our media production and technical teams as necessary
- Provide support to international teams
- Maintain high-quality live streaming standards throughout broadcasts
- Create and plan schedules for live streaming events
- Degree/Diploma in media, communication or any other related field would be a plus
- At least 1 years’ experience in a related position
- Previous customer service and client handling experience would be considered an advantage
- Fluent Uzbek speaker with excellent oral and written skills in English
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Very good video and audio presenting skills
- Outgoing and confident, with a pleasant personality
- Enthusiastic about building knowledge in the financial markets
- Attractive remuneration package plus performance related reward
- Intellectually stimulating work environment
- Continuous personal development and international training opportunities
All applications will be treated with strict confidentiality!
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Posted on 02/14/2025
TLG Global is a fast-growing company, expanding its presence in Portugal and beyond. In just one year, our immigration and investment services have successfully assisted over 350 applicants . Now, we are taking our successful business model to the next level and expanding our operations!
What we expect from you:
- Promote our immigration and investment solutions in Dubai and other international markets .
- Identify and acquire new clients and business opportunities.
- Support and guide clients, answering questions and providing consultations.
- Build and maintain relationships with key partners and stakeholders.
- Travel for meetings and events to represent the company and grow the client base.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in B2B sales or business development .
- Mandatory experience or knowledge in business immigration .
- Strong network and existing client base in the immigration and investment sector is a major plus .
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
- Willingness to travel and always be available for potential clients and partners.
Career growth and professional development.
Supportive and collaborative team culture.
Business Development
Posted 4 days ago
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Job Description The ideal candidate will lead initiatives to generate and engage with business partners to build new business for the company. This candidate will be focused and have strong communication skills. Duties and Responsibilities:
- Building a robust client pipeline across inbound and outbound leads.
- Actively engaging in online and offline industry events and forums to engage with prospective customers, decision-makers, and influencers.
- Managing the lead bank and analyzing the clients as per the company’s target audience.
- Process market research to build the prospect’s profile using online and offline data resources
- Identify and qualify the prospect leads and keep them updated.
- Working independently to identify the best strategies to reach out to and engage new clients.
- Developing and executing strategies for targeting strategic sectors and regions.
- Becoming a product expert, its market positioning, and the solutions it offers, backed up by relevant and compelling case studies.
- Working alongside the Technology, Product, and other internal teams to develop market-leading propositions for prospective partners.
- Led the development of sales materials to support the Sales Team’s efforts.
- Managing the sales process CRM system
- Arrange meetings and assign qualified leads to the Sales Consultant Team.
- Bachelor’s degree in business management or administration, or a related field.
- The ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent problem-solving and management skills.
- Exceptional negotiation skills.
- Effective communication skills.
- Strong business acumen.
- Detail-oriented.
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- Develop a growth strategy focused on both financial gain and customer satisfaction.
- Conduct research to identify new markets and customer needs in new countries.
- Create new opportunities, services, and by-products leveraging existing products.
- Establish the company's brand to enhance visibility and recognition.
- Promote the company’s products and services by addressing or predicting clients’ objectives and needs.
- Arrange business meetings with prospective clients to foster new business relationships.
- Prepare pre-sales contracts, ensuring adherence to law-established rules and guidelines.
- Maintain accurate records of sales activities, revenue, invoices, and other relevant documentation.
- Provide trustworthy feedback and after-sales support to ensure customer satisfaction.
- Build long-term relationships with new and existing customers.
- Drive the company’s transition from Tier 3 to Tier 2/1 status through strategic growth and customer engagement.
- Proven experience as a business development professional or in a relevant role.
- Experience in customer support and engagement.
- In-depth market knowledge and trend analysis skills.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
- Ability to build rapport and establish strong working relationships with clients.
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We are seeking a seasoned and achievement-oriented ERP sales expert to join our company in our Dubai office. The candidate should have excellent sales and presentation skills, the ability to understand the client's business, and provide solutions through our ERP.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the end-to-end sales process, including meeting clients based on leads generated by the in-house sales team.
- Generate own leads and opportunities.
- Conduct sales presentations.
- Prepare sales proposals.
- Follow up and close deals.
- Develop and manage key customer accounts.
- Relationship management.
- Understand customer needs and provide solutions.
- Generate business leads and meet assigned revenue targets.
Requirements:
- 3 to 5 years of ERP sales experience.
- Excellent communication and customer interaction skills.
- Result-driven, resourceful, and self-motivated.
- Excellent sales and presentation skills.
- Ability to deal with top-level management.
- Valid UAE driving license.
- Any graduation or post-graduation (preferably in IT).
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Business Development Executive
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Posted on 25/04/2025
Blue Ocean Corporation is a leading conglomerate and world leader in driving continuous growth and transformation across a multitude of industries and sectors. Our commitment to quality, innovation, and client satisfaction has propelled us to the forefront of the Consulting, Training and Conferences landscapes.
From our humble beginnings to our present status as a global market leader, we take pride in our global footprint, and the transformative impact we have had on industries.
With over 25+ years of excellence in accelerating careers and transforming organizations, we are a trusted partner for our B2B and B2C clients.
Job Summary:
We are seeking a dynamic and results-driven Business Development Executive with 2-5 years of experience in the interior design, fit-out, or construction industry in the UAE market. The ideal candidate will be responsible for identifying new business opportunities, building client relationships, and driving sales growth for our interior design projects.
Key Responsibilities:
• Identify and generate new business leads in the residential, commercial, and
hospitality interior design sectors.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, architects, contractors,
• Conduct market research to understand industry trends, competitor activities,
and potential opportunities.
• Prepare and present proposals, quotations, and project pitches to
• Negotiate contracts and close deals to achieve sales targets and revenue
growth.
• Collaborate with the design and project management teams to ensure client
requirements are met.
• Attend industry events, exhibitions, and networking meetings to expand
business connections.
• Maintain a strong pipeline of potential clients and follow up on leads.
• Provide regular sales reports and updates to the management team.
• 2-5 years of proven experience in business development/sales in
the interior design, fit-out, or construction industry in the UAE.
• Strong understanding of the UAE market, key players, and industry trends.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• Self-motivated, target-driven, and able to work independently.