Advanced Earth Fellow: Sus+ Network Support Officer - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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UE07:
£36,333.00 Per Annum Pro Rata (£19.91 per hour)

Edinburgh Earth Initiative, Edinburgh Global

Fixed Term Contract:
Part Time - 4 Hours per Week

Fixed-term from September 2023 for 12 Months
Join the growing and prestigious Edinburgh Earth Initiative's Earth Fellows programme on a researcher-led project developing the Sus+ Network.

Sus+ is a network of staff and PhD students, across all levels of career stage, which seeks to enable new collaborations and associated research opportunities.

They seek to enhance the visibility of social science expertise, encourage networking and capacity building, and stimulate new research collaborations with associated scholarly KEI outputs.

The Opportunity:

As an Advanced Earth Fellow, you will be joining a diverse, fun and dynamic team of researchers, students and staff all working together to address the global climate emergency.

As part of the Earth Fellows programme, you will have access to exciting networking and personal development opportunities as well as the chance to contribute towards partnerships and solutions for climate change on a global scale.

Earth Fellows will work on individual and team-based projects which contribute to the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Earth Initiative's work on climate change research-led impact, innovation, engagement, and teaching.

For more information on the specifics of the Sus+ Network project in partnership with Dr Sarah Parry in the School of Social and Political Science, please use this link (opens in new tab).

T _he Earth Fellows programme is for current University of Edinburgh students. Advanced Earth Fellows must be current PhD students at the University of Edinburgh. _

Your skills and attributes for success:

Evidence of interest in climate and environmental change.
Ability to work proactively with colleagues in other work areas/institutions, contributing specialist knowledge to achieve group outcomes.
Experience working with a wide range of stakeholders, and ensuring a focus on realworld impact of research carried out.
Excellent communication skills including the ability to communicate complex information clearly.

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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.

Access our staff benefits page
for further information and use our reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

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.

Interviews will be held in early August.
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.