Project Manager - Surrey Sleep Research Centre

University of Surrey; Guildford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension

Relocation assistance

Flexible working options

On-site nursery

Leisure facilities on campus

Travel schemes

Family-friendly benefits

Job summary

The Surrey Sleep Research Centre at the University of Surrey is seeking a dedicated project coordinator to manage planning, preparation, and reporting for multiple concurrent human research projects, ensuring high quality, safety, and on-time delivery.

You will oversee data collection and lifecycle management across projects, supporting a multidisciplinary team of physiologists, molecular biologists, neuroscientists and engineers.

Qualifications

• Degree in Life Sciences or equivalent vocational qualification.
• Several years of practical experience in a similar or related role.
• Demonstrated professional or specialist knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Manage planning, preparation and reporting of multiple concurrent human research projects.
• Oversee accurate and efficient management of data across project lifecycles.
• Ensure delivery to high quality, safely within timelines and budget.

Skills

Project management

Data management

Education

Degree in Life Sciences

Job description

The University of Surrey is a global community of ideas and people, dedicated to life-changing education and research.

We are ambitious and have a bold vision of what we want to achieve - shaping ourselves into one of the best universities in the world, which we are achieving through the talents and endeavour of every employee.

Our culture empowers people to achieve this aim and to collectively, and individually, make a real difference.

The Surrey Sleep Research Centre (SSRC) is dedicated to multidisciplinary research on the function and regulation of sleep and circadian rhythms. Its sleep recording facilities and equipment are state of the enabling longitudinal and intensive physiological monitoring of participants under carefully controlled conditions. The SSRC is home to a forward-thinking team of physiologists, molecular biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and engineers who passionately address several of the most important questions in sleep and neuroscience research.

The role

You are a dedicated and agile person willing and able to take responsibility for the project management (planning, preparation, and reporting) of multiple concurrent human research projects being conducted in the Surrey Sleep Research Centre to ensure that they are delivered to high quality, safely, and within timelines and budget. In addition, you can take responsibility for overseeing the accurate and efficient management of data collected during the lifecycle of these research projects.

About you

You will have a degree in Life Sciences or equivalent vocational qualifications plus a number of years' practical experience in a similar or related role(s) or significant vocational experience, demonstrating development through the acquisition of appropriate professional or specialist knowledge.

• In return we offer a generous pension, relocation assistance where appropriate , flexible working options including job share and blended home/campus working locations (dependent on work duties), access to world-class leisure facilities on campus, a range of travel schemes and supportive family friendly benefits including an excellent on-site nursery.

The University of Surrey is committed to providing an inclusive environment that offers equal opportunities for all. We place great value on diversity and are seeking to increase the diversity within our community. Therefore we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups, such as people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups and people with disabilities.