Research Culture Assistant - Belfast, United Kingdom - Queen's University Belfast

Queen's University Belfast

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Belfast, United Kingdom

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Job reference
24/111724

Date posted
18/03/2024

Application closing date
08/04/2024

Salary
£28,539 - £33,642 per annum

Job category/type
Clerical

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Research Culture Assistant:

Job description

Research & Enterprise at Queen's University Belfast, is currently seeking to recruit to the role of Research Culture Assistant.
The postholder will play a key role as part of a new and integrated Research Culture team, contributing to the implementation of institutional strategies aimed at fostering an inclusive, supportive, and collaborative research culture* at Queen's. You will contribute to the successful delivery of key projects and initiatives, providing administrative and project management support.
For these purposes, research culture is described using the Royal Society definition, which states: "Research culture encompasses the behaviours, values, expectations, attitudes and norms of our research communities. It influences researchers' career paths and determines the way that research is conducted and communicated."

***- Substantial recent experience of providing professional support for the delivery of key projects or initiatives, including:

Responsibility for the management of project documentation or equivalent information.
Manipulating management information and data to draft written and verbal reports for senior managers.
Leading on the planning and delivery of significant meetings, events and workshops.
Managing working groups and/ or committees, to include preparing agendas, papers and minutes.
Administering budgets, maintaining basic financial records, and overseeing the allocation of resources.
Ability to assess and organise resources, and plan and progress work activities, projects, changes within own work area, etc, using initiative and judgement with limited recourse to managers.
At Queen's our people are at the heart of everything we do. As a staff member you will become part of a vibrant organisational culture, which will provide you with the opportunity to achieve your full potential and enhance your career through a continuous focus on learning and development.
We offer an excellent employment package that includes:
Great terms & conditions
Pension schemes
Flexible working by enabling you to design your working week in collaboration with your manager through a blend of remote and office working
Familyfriendly initiatives
Career development opportunities
Support for health & mental wellbeing
Generous holiday entitlement of 8.4 weeks a year (made up of 23 days annual leave, 10 closure days and 9 bank holidays)
Queen's University is committed to promoting equality of opportunity to all. We have created an inclusive culture by establishing staff networks such as iRise (Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and International Staff Network) and PRISM (LGBTQ+) which help us progress equality.

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