Research Impact Officer

1 month ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE07 £36,333 - £43,155 Per Annum**

**College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences / School of History, Classics and Archaeology (HCA)**

**Open Ended (Permanent)**

**Full time, 35 hrs per week**

We are looking for a dynamic and experienced impact professional with a keen interest in supporting our world-leading academics to extend the impact and influence of their research.

**The Opportunity**:
The role provides a high-level of support to the organisation and development of engagement and impact activities across HCA. They will contribute to the development and implementation of the School’s Research Impact Strategy, identifying opportunities for academic staff to use their research in public and commercial spaces, and promoting the development and integration of engagement with research within the School’s wider engagement with external organisations.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Educated to degree standard or equivalent formal training, plus hands-on experience in a similar or related role(s)
- Thorough knowledge and understanding of relevant HE engagement issues
- Ability to effectively translate and communicate research to a range of audiences, including academic, industry, policy makers and general public
- Excellent skills in presentation and communication across a variety of platforms, including a well-developed understanding of media and the web to promote, disseminate and monitor engagement with knowledge exchange and impact outputs and activities
- High level of initiative and excellent influencing and interpersonal skills with the ability to feed into, encourage and implement strategic decisions to support the evolving needs of HCA’s academic community and development of activities to enhance impact of research.

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**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.

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).

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