Research Programme Coordinator

2 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE06 - £31,396 - £36,024 per annum (pro rata). ( A revised salary range for this grade of £32,982 - £38,205 is planned to take effect from Spring 2024).**
**College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine/Molecular Genetic & Population Health Sciences /USHER Institute**
**Part time (28hrs per week)**
**Fixed Term - 01/04/2024 to 31/03/2028**
**Location: Usher Institute moves to a new building in Edinburgh Bioquarter, early 2024**

The Centre for Medical Informatics at the Usher Institute within The University of Edinburgh is looking for a Research Programme Coordinator.

**The Opportunity**:
Research Programme Coordinator will be responsible for providing project administrative support to the Research Manager of the Health Data Research UK Scotland Site. This will involve assisting with the project and financial management of HDR UK Scotland’s prestigious high-profile grants and research projects in health data science.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Assisting the HDR UK Scotland programme manager by preparing reports and forecasts on grant budgets and salaries, coordinating funds to support project management decisions.
- Timely co-ordinating, monitoring, and collating project deliverables and funder progress reports.
- Planning and organising meetings and seminars and supporting the organisation of in person and virtual Scotland regional meetings and research events.
- Liaising with HDR UK communications team on promotion of events and project web pages. Creating promotional material for events.

**Click to view a copy of the full job description.**

Please include your CV and a supporting statement with details of how you meet the knowledge, skills and experience required for this post.

**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. Click to access our **staff benefits page **(opens new browser tab) for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

Championing equality, diversity and inclusion

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.

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 **(opens new browser tab).

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**

**Work with us | Usher Institute **_- where inquiring minds work together to improve lives across the world. _**

Join our growing team of academics and professional services staff and work in a vibrant, multi-disciplinary environment. Our vision is to catalyse the transformation of health in society by working with people, populations and their data.

Our greatest asset is our people, working together to improve public health using evidence-based research.

We are a key applied and translational arm of the Edinburgh Medical School, within the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at The University of Edinburgh. Working with partners across UK and international universities, health and care providers, policymakers, industry and the public is central to our highly collaborative ethos.



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