Strategic Research Executive

**Strategic Research Executive (Analytics)**

**UE08 £43,414 - £51,805 (per annum)**

**Edinburgh Research Office/CSG**

**Open-ended contract (permanent)**

**Full time (35 hours/week)**

**1 post
**The Opportunity**

We are seeking colleagues who will embody our values of expertise, community, integrity and collaboration.

The Strategic Research Development Team works with researchers and research leaders across the University to provide expert insights into the funding environment including research funding, policy, development and complex analysis. We ensure individuals, Centres, Schools, Colleges and the University are best placed to win research funding.

The Strategic Research Executive (Analytics) is responsible for creating advanced data modelling and analysis of the internal and external research environment, to identify exciting new research opportunities and support the development of the University’s research portfolio. The role is based in the Strategic Research Development Team.

**Personal characteristics**

We want you to bring your enthusiasm, proactivity and communication skills to the role. We need your extensive quantitative and technical expertise in data analysis to inform senior decision-making, shape direction and provide critical insights into the research environment of the University. Your ability to build relationships and communicate your work with colleagues from the senior leadership to researchers to professional services will be vital.

**Development Opportunities**

Edinburgh Research Office is a supportive and encouraging environment for those new to research professional services and those wishing to further develop their University professional service careers. We have a longstanding commitment to training and staff development and a great track record of internal promotions for ambitious colleagues. We actively encourage all colleagues in ERO to think about their development in role. We encourage applicants to think not just about their suitability now, but how they might grow in the role in the future.

**What skills and experience you will bring?**
- Advanced knowledge of a range of software including PowerBI and SQL
- Must have the ability to effectively grasp new topics and be able to assess their importance for the University.
- Demonstrable experience of analysing complex issues and designing recommendations for progression based on the analysis.
- Experience of ethical use of data including responsible metrics.
- Significant experience of both project design and delivery, with demonstrable highly developed, detailed organisation and planning embedded in it.
- Excellent communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and persuade wide ranging types of stakeholders.
- Must be able to manage a complex and diverse workload, identifying priorities and being flexible when they shift, whilst still meeting key targets.

A full list of main responsibilities and the knowledge, skills and experience required for the role can be found in the full job description below.

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**About the team**

Colleagues in Edinburgh Research Office work in partnership with researchers to develop and deliver world-leading research. We work across the research lifecycle - growing ideas into proposals, projects and impact. We are enablers and connectors, networked across the University, able to provide the best advice to researchers and research leaders in all disciplines. We are part of a wider ecosystem of over 300 colleagues providing research support across the University of Edinburgh - linking through our Schools, Colleges and Service Groups.

**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.

As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relation