Project Officer in Tropical Biodiversity - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Description

UE06; £29,219 - £34,308 per annum

School of GeoSciences, College of Science and Engineering

Fixed Term for 9 months with a possible extension

35 hours per week

Start date ASAP

1 post
We are looking for a Project Officer to support the principal investigator and colleagues in delivering key objectives for several funded grants on tropical biodiversity, ecology and biogeography

The Opportunity:

The employee will help coordinate and manage several funded grants that focus on the biodiversity and ecosystem ecology of the dry tropics.

The employee will liaise with overseas partners, potentially join in fieldwork, coordinate meetings and manage budgets.

Your skills and attributes for success:

BSc or MSc in a field of biological or environmental science
Experience in project management
Experience in managing budgets
Experience in data analysis or managing workflows

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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.

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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 relationships, both locally and globally.

The School of GeoSciences explores the factors and forces that shape our world.

The School aims to understand the world through fundamental curiosity-driven research and to support prescient decision-making at individual to global scales.

We undertake world-leading research; offer new ways of understanding natural and social drivers of change; provide inter-and trans-disciplinary solutions; and work in partnership to improve livelihoods and explore ways to manage the environment that are both sustainable and socially equitable.

With over 500 academics, researchers and research students, we are the largest and most successful interdisciplinary grouping of geoscientists and geographers in the UK.

Research activity is coordinated within three main Research Institutes - Global Change, Earth and Planetary Science, and Geography and the Lived Environment - and within smaller research groupings that reach across and beyond the School.

The School holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to gender equality in higher education.

Our aim is to recognise and value diversity in our staff and students, and to support flexible and family-friendly working.