Research Project Officer

3 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**Research Project Officer**

**Grade UE06 £29,619-£34,308**

**CAHSS College Research Office**

**Fixed term, full-time**

**March 2023 to Nov 2023**

We are looking for a Research Project Officer to join the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences College Research Office to coordinate a variety of projects incorporating research information from across University systems to inform strategic decision-making and support preparation of research assessment within the College and CAHSS Schools.

**The Opportunity**:
The appointee will join a small team of specialists within the College Research Office and play a key role in: seeking and realising the opportunities for access to the full range of research information and funding opportunities required by researchers and research support colleagues within the College; supporting the College’s key Research Themes; collation of research activities and research impact data; and supporting short-term projects and initiatives.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Extensive knowledge of analytical methods to inform decisions, monitor progress and compliance and preparation of detailed management information reports
- Experience of building expertise on a range of data sources to make decisions about the best source to use to answer particular questions
- Excellent project management and organisational skills
- Experience of collating, analysing, reporting on, and using information and data (textual and numerical) in a structured way, and of making effective and engaging presentations orally and in writing
- Comprehensive understanding and demonstrable skills in knowledge exchange and impact within the HE sector

**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.

Interviews are expected to take place at the start of February 2023.

If invited for interview 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.


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