Project Coordinator: Grace-net

Lancaster University; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancaster University invites applications for a project coordinator to support the Grace-net Gambling Harms network. The role involves coordinating across a multi-site team including academic researchers and external partners, and developing capacity through outreach and communication.

You will help partners realise the benefits of research and community engagement, with a focus on record-keeping, monitoring expenses, and taking minutes as key responsibilities. Fixed-term until 27 April 2027.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating multi-site projects (UKRI-funded) and liaising with diverse partners.
• Strong organisational and administrative skills including budgeting/expense monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Support liaison among network participants across local government, NHS, NGOs and charity sector.
• Facilitate communication and capacity-building; outreach to organisations impacted by gambling harms.
• Assist with reporting, coordination of meetings, minutes and expense monitoring.

Skills

Communication

Administration

Record-keeping

Minutes taking

Job description

We are looking for a an efficient, people-oriented project coordinator to support a UKRI-funded project, Grace-net. The Gambling Resilience And Community Engagement Network. This is a multi-site project involving academic researchers collaborating with external partners across local government, NHS, non-government organisations and charity sector for the prevention, protection and recovery from gambling harms across the North-West of England and beyond.

More information about Grace-net is available here:

https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/psychology/research/grace-net/

This role is based within the Psychology Department, although the project team work across the University and with external partners.

You will be responsible for:

• supporting liaison among those involved in the network,
• facilitating communication and developing capacity, for example by encouraging outreach to other organisations impacted by gambling harms.

You will help partners to realise the potential and the benefits from research and community engagements in addressing gambling harms. The project has several core strands and record-keeping, monitoring of expenses and taking minutes, will be key elements of the role.

Grace-net is also connected to other innovation partnerships across the UK and with the national Gambling Harms Research UK Evidence Centre, based in Glasgow. This post will support reporting between projects, help consolidate connections between groups, and support the development of a longer term, phase-2 application for funding support. Additional information about the role is set out in the Person Specification and Job Description.

The post is offered on a fixed-term basis until 27 April 2027, which is the end of the phase-1 funded project.

Informal enquiries for this role can be made to John Towse, Grace-net Co-Director, [e-mail]