Research Officer

Department: Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Salary: £38,165 – £44,722 per annum (Grade 4)
Reference: 1119
Location: Mile End
Date posted: 14 February 2024
Closing date: 3 March 2024

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Overview

About the Role

We are seeking to recruit a Research Officer within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences who will provide high quality administrative support for research and innovation activities. Building on its standing as one of the UK’s leading research-intensive higher education institutions, Queen Mary University of London is committing significant investment to professional support for its research and innovation activities.

This role is part of the Professional Services Career Family at Queen Mary University of London that supports functions across multiple sites supporting our research, teaching, and learning activities. The role will be the first point of contact in your School(s) or Institute for providing administrative support on research matters. The support each post will provide will be agreed between the Faculty and School based administrative lead.

About You

The successful candidate will have had experience of working in a similar role within a Higher Education Institution or funding body, and will have strong analytical, organisational and interpersonal skills. Demonstrable ability to prioritise their workload is essential.

About the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences  

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences is committed to excellence in research and innovation, and to delivering an exceptional education and student experience across all our disciplines. The faculties provide a supportive and stimulating research environment with high-quality facilities to deliver the highest quality research and societal impact. The Faculty has eight academic Schools across which 7,000 students are hosted and to which approximately 600 academic staff belong. The Research Officer role will provide research support within a team working across a cluster of three Schools.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.
Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to: Alex Nowosiad ([email protected] )

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