Imperial College London
Duties And Responsibilities
You will be a member of the Department’s Head of Department administration team working with the Research Operations Manager, Department Operations Manager and Executive Assistant to support the Head of Department and the Department’s Research Team.
You will have significant involvement in
- providing high quality pro-active research support and advice to researchers from all career stages, co-ordinating the preparation of research proposals and supporting the Department oversight of post-award grant processes.
- leading on the promotion of research success and impact in particular the management, development and maintenance of the Department’s research focused digital media presence.
- providing support to underpinning Department management and strategic activities as well as working to support the implementation of new, and the improvement of existing, processes.
Essential requirements
You must be able to demonstrate the following essential criteria:
- Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification/experience
- Experience of prioritising and managing workload in order to meet deadlines, both prescribed and self-imposed
- Experience of developing effective relationships to influence direction, develop, agree and implement systems and procedures to meet agreed priorities
- Experience of manipulating data for analysis and presentation
- Experience in handling confidential matters with discretion
- Excellent interpersonal skills and influencing skills with a proven ability to communicate clearly and appropriately with a range of people at all levels
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent numeracy skills with the ability to interpret data and communicate for different purposes
- Highly developed IT skills and the ability to support improved communications, information and data dissemination
- Accuracy/ability to pay attention to detail
- Proactive commitment to ensuring good practice and following process/procedure
- Commitment to personal development
In Addition, It Would Be Desirable If You Had
- Experience of research administration or research programme management within higher education, another public sector or charitable body, industry, or similar organisations
- Experience managing digital media
- Experience of servicing committees or groups
Further information
The aim of the Departmentis world class science in fundamental theory, experimentation, leadership of large international projects, applications in advanced technology and development of specialist infrastructure and facilities. We are one of the largest Physics departments in the UK and in Europe, which enables us to create groups of international standing, and with sufficient scale and critical mass, that they influence the research agenda and attract the world’s top researchers. Our research portfolio covers the full range of theoretical and experimental physics, allowing us to respond rapidly to opportunities and initiatives.
The Department is an IoP JUNO Practitioner and an Athena Silver SWAN Award winner reflecting our commitment to building a supportive, inclusive and highly motivated community.
Further information about
Department of Physics
Department’s EDI work
Further details about the position and application process are available from Louise Hayward, Research Operations Manager, ( [email protected] ) or Luke White, Department Operations Manager ( [email protected] ).
The College is a proud signatory to the San-Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which means that in hiring and promotion decisions, we evaluate applicants on the quality of their work, not the journal impact factor where it is published. For more information, see https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-evaluation/
The College believes that the use of animals in research is vital to improve human and animal health and welfare. Animals may only be used in research programmes where their use is shown to be necessary for developing new treatments and making medical advances. Imperial is committed to ensuring that, in cases where this research is deemed essential, all animals in the College’s care are treated with full respect, and that all staff involved with this work show due consideration at every level. http://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-integrity/animal-research /
We are committed to equality of opportunity, to eliminating discrimination and to creating an inclusive working environment for all. We therefore encourage candidates to apply irrespective of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender identity, sex, or sexual orientation. We are an Athena SWAN Silver Award winner, a Disability Confident Leader and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.
To apply for this job please visit www.imperial.ac.uk.