Summary
Sharjah Maritime Academy is seeking a Maritime Safety Trainer in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The role delivers and assesses maritime safety courses, develops course content, supports students, and maintains training equipment and supplies. Applicants need maritime education or training experience, professional fluency in English, and an STCW Class 2 Certificate of Competency or relevant practical industry experience. A relevant master’s degree, teaching and health and safety qualifications, and high-voltage or liquefied gas tanker experience are preferred.
The posting
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Key Responsibilities
- Assist Associate Head of Safety Training and the Director of Maritime Training as required to fulfil the Academy’s strategic priorities.
- Provide expert and professional training on a range of safety courses for maritime professionals including Firefighting, Personal Survival Techniques, Survival Craft and Rescue Boats, Medical First Aid, and Security Awareness.
- Ensure all training and assessments are fully compliant with industry regulations e.g. STCW, OPITO etc.
- Use appropriate, innovative and effective pedagogic approach in the teaching environment. Deliver lectures and lead seminar groups as appropriate.
- Participate in the examination/ assessment process including the setting of papers, preparing marking schemes, agreeing marks with other staff. Use appropriate and innovative forms of assessment practices to enhance learning and teaching.
- Actively develop and deliver a range of new courses in line with industry changes or requirements. Responsible for updating own discipline knowledge to develop research informed teaching.
- Provide timely, constructive, formative and comprehensive feedback to students using all forms of communication.
- Ensure full compliance with the requirements of the timetable and the annual academic calendar.
- Conduct research for career development, aligning with the Academy’s ambition to be a research-active institution.
- Implement and manage a planned maintenance program for all equipment. Manage the ordering of all supplies and consumable items as required.
- Be prepared to travel as required and occasionally work outside of standard working hours as in the contract.
Qualification, Skills and Experience:
Qualifications
- E: STCW Class 2 Certificate of Competency or appropriate industry experience in a practical setting.
- P: MSc or equivalent Master level academic qualification in relevant subject
- P: Teaching qualification
- P: Health and Safety Qualification.
Skills
- E: Ability to fluently speak, write and communicate in English at the highest level of professionalism
- E: Team player, approachable, sensitive towards all cultures.
- E: Work as and when required under pressure with the intention to complete task as promptly and efficiently as is possible
Experience
- E: Experience of maritime education and/ or training.
- P: Experience of working in an industry supporting seafarer.
- P: Educational experience with leading courses/ programs, revising course content, developing new programs and courses.
- P: Proven experience in a senior capacity with Liquefied Gas Tankers.
- P: High Voltage (Management Level) certification
E: Essential
P: Preferred