Maritime Safety Trainer (FSHC/071024/14)

Role Overview

Maritime Safety Trainer at Sharjah Maritime Academy, based in Sharjah. Position reference: FSHC/071024/14.

Role Purpose

Deliver expert, professional, and compliant safety training to maritime professionals across a range of specialized courses, while maintaining research-active engagement and supporting the Academy's strategic priorities in maritime education.

Key Responsibilities

Training Delivery

• Provide expert and professional training on safety courses including Firefighting, Personal Survival Techniques, Survival Craft and Rescue Boats, Medical First Aid, and Security Awareness.
• Deliver lectures and lead seminar groups using appropriate, innovative, and effective pedagogic approaches.
• Deliver engaging training sessions on workplace safety, compliance, and emergency procedures.
• Promote a strong safety culture by ensuring all employees understand and follow safety protocols.

Curriculum Development and Assessment

• Actively develop and deliver a range of new courses in line with industry changes or requirements.
• Participate in the examination and assessment process, including setting papers, preparing marking schemes, and agreeing marks with other staff.
• Use appropriate and innovative forms of assessment practices to enhance learning and teaching.
• Update own discipline knowledge to develop research-informed teaching.
• Revise course content and develop new programs and courses.

Compliance and Quality

• Ensure all training and assessments are fully compliant with industry regulations including STCW and OPITO.
• Ensure full compliance with timetable requirements and the annual academic calendar.
• Provide timely, constructive, formative, and comprehensive feedback to students using all forms of communication.

Operations and Equipment Management

• Implement and manage a planned maintenance program for all equipment.
• Manage the ordering of all supplies and consumable items as required.

Strategic Support and Research

• Assist Associate Head of Safety Training and the Director of Maritime Training as required to fulfil the Academy's strategic priorities.
• Conduct research for career development, aligning with the Academy's ambition to be a research-active institution.

General Requirements

• Travel as required.
• Occasionally work outside of standard working hours as outlined in the contract.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential Qualifications

• STCW Class 2 Certificate of Competency or appropriate industry experience in a practical setting.

Preferred Qualifications

• MSc or equivalent Master level academic qualification in relevant subject.
• Teaching qualification.
• Health and Safety Qualification.
• High Voltage (Management Level) certification.

Essential Experience

• Experience of maritime education and/or training.

Preferred Experience

• Experience of working in an industry supporting seafarers.
• Educational experience with leading courses and programs, revising course content, and developing new programs and courses.
• Proven experience in a senior capacity with Liquefied Gas Tankers.

Skills & Competencies

• Fluently speak, write, and communicate in English at the highest level of professionalism.
• Work as and when required under pressure with the intention to complete tasks as promptly and efficiently as possible.
• Team player, approachable, and sensitive towards all cultures.