Project Coordinator (Research Culture) (CC13141)

University of Bath; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious university in the UK is seeking a full-time Project Coordinator to support its Research Culture Action Plan. You will coordinate projects, engage with multiple stakeholders, and evaluate their success to enhance the research environment. This role provides an opportunity to make a significant cultural impact and offers various benefits, including flexible working options and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Free counselling services

Cycle to work scheme

Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme

Staff discount at Team Bath gym

Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees

Generous employer contributory pension schemes

Generous annual leave allowance

Personal and professional development opportunities

Free entry to the Holburne Museum

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating, delivering, and evaluating projects.
• Ability to manage diverse stakeholders successfully.
• Motivated to positively impact research culture.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and support key projects within the Research Culture Action Plan.
• Evaluate projects to ensure they deliver on time and budget.
• Gather data to understand progress on research culture.

Skills

Project coordination

Stakeholder management

Inspiring and influencing

Strategic thinking

Attention to detail

Higher education insights

Job description

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

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.

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 more
• 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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