Innovation Associate

Black Lives in Musi; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal College of Music invites applications for an Innovation Associate to join its Centre for Performance Science, focusing on advancing science-based executive performance training. The role requires a PhD (or near completion) in performance science or related fields and experience in high-level performance coaching and empirical research.

Candidates should demonstrate excellence in communication, public presentation, and building professional relationships under high-pressure conditions.

Qualifications

• You should have or be about to complete a PhD (or equivalent) in performance science, psychology, education, pedagogy, or a related discipline focusing on theories and practices underpinning expert performance.
• You should have experience coaching or teaching performance at a high level.
• You should have experience in designing, conducing, and analyzing qualitative and/or quantitative empirical research.

Skills

Coaching performance

Public speaking

Research design

Education

PhD in performance science / related field

Job description

To help expand our distinctive work in science-based executive performance training, the Royal College of Music is seeking to engage an Innovation Associate to join its Centre for Performance Science. We are looking for candidates with the following attributes:

• You should have or be about to complete a PhD (or equivalent) in performance science, psychology, education, pedagogy, or a related discipline focusing on theories and practices underpinning expert performance.
• You should have experience coaching or teaching performance at a high level.
• You should have experience in designing, conducing, and analyzing qualitative and/or quantitative empirical research.
• You should have excellent skills in spoken and written communication, public presentation, building and
  maintaining professional relationships, and performing in high pressure settings.