Research Associate in Medical Sciences

Diversity Dashboard; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Employee health and wellbeing services

High annual leave entitlement

Additional Christmas closure

Local and national discounts

Job summary

The University of Manchester, appointed by the General Dental Council, seeks a Research Associate to manage the dental registrant panel. You will recruit panel members, distribute activities, and prepare reports for the GDC, contributing to surveys, interviews and focus groups in line with governance and ethical requirements.

You will support day-to-day panel management, coordinate participant recruitment and communications, manage the panel database, and facilitate research activities ensuring

Qualifications

• Excellent organisational and communication skills.
• Experience of mixed-methods research.
• Stakeholder engagement and project management experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage the dental registrant panel day-to-day.
• Recruit panel members and allocate activities.
• Prepare reports for the GDC and coordinate research tasks.
• Coordinate surveys, interviews and focus groups with panel members.
• Collect, analyse and report data; maintain governance standards.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Mixed-methods research

Stakeholder engagement

Project management

Job description

The General Dental Council (GDC) are investing resources into improving their internal processes, including establishing panels of dental registrants to review existing processes, user-test new interventions, and discuss new or planned changes within the dental sector. The GDC have commissioned the University of Manchester to establish and coordinate the dental registrant panel for an initial period of two years. A research associate is required to take on the role of managing the panel, including recruitment of panel members, distributing activities to panel members on a regular basis, preparing reports for the GDC, and contribute to panel activities that align with the research associate's skills. These activities may include surveys, interviews and focus groups with panel members.

The research associate will play a central role in both day-to-day management of the registrant panel, such as supporting panel member recruitment, management and engagement, as well as contributing to specific activities with panels members including data collection, analysis and reporting. Working closely with the principal investigator, the postholder will coordinate participant recruitment and communications, manage the secure panel database, organise and facilitate research activities including surveys, focus groups and workshops, and ensure that all activities are delivered in accordance with ethical, GDPR and project governance requirements.

They will also monitor panel diversity, participant engagement and project milestones, ensuring the panels remain representative, responsive and aligned with the GDC's strategic objectives. The role requires excellent organisational and communication skills, experience of mixed-methods research, stakeholder engagement and project management, together with the ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to deliver multiple concurrent workstreams.

What you will get in return:

• Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
• Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
• Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
• Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
• Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

Our University is positive about flexible working you can find out more here

Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.

Please be aware that due to the number of applications we unfortunately may not able to provide individual feedback on your application.

Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Dr Aaron Drovandi

Email: [e-mail]

General enquiries:

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Technical support:

0161 850 2004 https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home

This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.