Research Assistant

2 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE06- £31,396 - £36,024**

**College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, School of History, Classics and Archaeology**

**Fixed-term contract for 5 months**

**Full time 35 hours per week**

**1 post available
This post is advertised as full-time (35 hours per week).

**Your skills and attributes for success:
- Degree in early modern History or a related field
- Excellent paleography skills
- Experience with transcribing and analysing early modern manuscripts
- Knowledge of the main archives in the UK
- Knowledge of the early modern history of the Caribbean Knowledge of the early modern history

**Click to view a copy of the full **job description
**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits **pension scheme **, **staff discounts, **family friendly initiatives **, flexible working and much more. Access our **staff benefits page **for further information and use our **reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

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**

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

**Key dates to note**:
Interviews will be held **TBC.


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