Early Career Researcher Experience Lead

3 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom University College London Full time

**Ref Number**

C14-00084

**Professional Expertise**

Administration and Business Support

**Department**

Human Resources Division (C14)

**Location**

London

**Working Pattern**

Full time

**Salary**

£65,698-£71,357

**Contract Type**

Fixed-term

**Working Type**

Hybrid

**Available For Secondment**

Yes

**Closing Date**

16-May-2024

**About us**:
UCL Organisational Development function (OD) supports career development and progression for all staff, including professional services, academic and research staff. The OD team is part of UCL HR and works with functions across the institution to enable UCL staff to achieve the academic mission and priority outcomes set out in UCL Strategic Plan 22-27.

**About the role**:
**This is a 5 months internal secondment opportunity.**

Please see below the requirement of the role below:
Support and communicate the strategic vision and take a leading role in working with UCL colleagues to define and design a programme which will reframe the employee value proposition for early career researchers.
Use UCL data to inform the planned programme, identifying barriers and potential targets for key indicators

**Engagement, collaboration and communication**
Build strong working relationship with a wide range of UCL partners and community groups including the Doctoral School, Research Culture, Reward, EDI, Wellbeing, Recruitment, HR, CAM, Research Domain and Faculty ECNs.

**Organisational development and researcher developer expertise**
Research and analyse competitor Employee Value Proposition for early career researchers to identify gaps and opportunities to differentiate and elevate UCL’s position.
Engage the community in the programme design consultation process through effective and agile means that are mindful of people’s workload, by utilising existing community meetings, consultative groups and Teams channel.
Provide organisational development expertise, this may include developing methodologies that could be carried forward on wider institutional talent management development, provide recommendations for the design of new initiatives and reform of existing programmes, recommendations of HR policies and comms that will enhance the overall employee experience of early career researchers.
Utilise the latest sector knowledge from engagement with external bodies (such as Vitae, Researchers 14, Staff Development Forum, League of European Research Universities, US National Bureau of Economic Research ECR project) to feed into the production of the business case for early career researcher EVP with recommendations for UCL-specific actions.

**About you**:
**What we offer**:
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

- 41 Days holiday (including 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
- Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
- Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
- On-Site nursery
- On-site gym
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
- Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
- Discounted medical insurance

**Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion**:
As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.



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