Research Coordinator (Part Time, Fixed Term)

The Department of Social and Policy Sciences invites applications from excellent candidates for a role that plays a key part in supporting research activities across the department.

About the role

Based in the Research Office, the Research Coordinator will take responsibility for supporting Principal Investigators on a range of projects, alongside managing the delivery of a busy calendar of events and activities.

You will be required to work with internal colleagues, external partners and other stakeholders to ensure the visibility of our research, supporting public engagement and impact activities and maintaining web and social media channels.

This is a varied role which requires you to work across a number of projects at one time. The successful applicant will have:

• excellent communication and organisational skills
• be able to demonstrate an ability to multi-task
• use initiative and prioritise

This is a part time role offered at 0.8 FTE (29.2 hours per week) which can be worked over 4 or more days. The expectation is that this would be worked on a hybrid basis, with a mixture of home and on campus working. 

This post is offered on a fixed term basis until the end of March 2024.

To ask any questions, please contact the Department’s Research Manager, Rachel Willis, at r.willis@bath.ac.uk.

About the Department 

The Department of Social & Policy Sciences is one of the UK’s leading centres for social sciences, carrying out cutting-edge research that brings together insights and approaches from sociology, social policy, social work, international development and criminology. The department is also home to three successful research centres: the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), the Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy (CASP) and the Centre for Death and Society (CDAS).

What we can offer you:

We are an equal opportunities employer and have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations. We have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award . 

A family-friendly University with an increasingly agile workforce, we are open to flexible working arrangements. We’re also proud to be a disability confident leader and are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments you may require. 

We offer:

• a very generous employer contributory pension scheme;
• generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance;
• an excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce;
• a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities.
• a number of support options available for new and existing staff to help with the cost of some immigration expenses which you may be eligible for. Please visit the following webpages for more information:
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• Visa Reimbursement Scheme
• Interest-Free Loan Scheme

Our campus is surrounded by beautiful countryside, and the City of Bath with its historic charm and social activity only a short distance away creates an excellent environment in which to work. Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work. Follow us @UniofBath and @UniofBathJobs on Twitter for more information.

We aim to be an inclusive university, where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds leads to a better environment for our employees and students, creating a learning environment and organisational culture that enhances health and wellbeing across our community. We are very proud to have recently received Ambassadors for Autism certification and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff .

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