Project Coordinator (Research Culture)

University of Bath; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious university in England is seeking a Project Coordinator to improve its research culture. The role involves planning, supporting, and evaluating projects related to a new Research Culture Action Plan. The ideal candidate must have experience in coordinating projects and managing multiple stakeholders, with a commitment to enhancing the research environment for staff and students.

Benefits

Free counselling services

Cycle to work scheme

Staff discounts on gym and tuition fees

Generous pension scheme

Relocation allowance

Visa reimbursement

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating, delivering, and evaluating projects.
• Ability to support/manage projects involving multiple stakeholders.
• Insight into higher education or research-related environments.

Responsibilities

• Support change through the new Research Culture Action Plan.
• Coordinate expertise for a 'research design' resource.
• Identify meaningful data to track progress in research culture.

Skills

Coordinating projects

Managing stakeholders

Inspiring others

Attention to detail

Strategic thinking

Understanding of higher education

Job description

Project Coordinator (Research Culture)

The University of Bath is committed to an ambitious action plan to continually improve our research culture.

As Project Coordinator, you'll be right at the heart of supporting change - planning, supporting and evaluating key projects within the new Research Culture Action Plan to ensure they deliver on time, to budget, and realise their planned benefits. You'll also take responsibility for getting some quick, but impactful projects over the line.

You could be coordinating expertise from across the University to inform a new 'research design' resource, rolling out our new approach to responsible research assessment, or identifying meaningful data to help us understand progress on research culture.

You'll have the chance to work with diverse groups of experts & stakeholders across the university and use your creativity to move the dial on the cultural changes that matter most to our community.

You Will

• have experience coordinating, delivering and evaluating projects
• be adept at supporting/managing projects involving multiple stakeholders to successful completion
• be able to inspire/influence others
• have a strategic eye, but like getting get stuck into delivery
• be motivated by the idea of making a positive difference to the culture that our research-related staff and students experience
• be interested in the details, capturing the important nuances that could make a difference in a project's success
• have an insight into higher education or research-related environments in other sectors.

Further information

The role is full-time (36.5 hours per week) which could be available as a job-share and/or support flexible working (0.8 FTE would be considered for the right candidate). There is a slight preference for one in-person day on Monday/Tuesday to align with the project lead.

This is a fixed-term role until July 2026 to cover the current postholder's career break.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Hayley Shaw, Research Culture Manager, at [e-mail].

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

Benefits

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and moreL
• A family-friendly workplace
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

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Further Details

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Terms and Conditions of Employment

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