Postgraduate Research Coordinator

Lancaster Environment Centre Salary: £23,715 to £27,131 pro rata Closing Date: Sunday 29 January 2023 Interview Date: Thursday 09 February 2023 Reference: 0006-23

Lancaster Environment Centre (Department) at Lancaster University is seeking to appoint a part time Postgraduate Research (PGR) Coordinator. As part of the Student Office Team, the role holder will support the delivery and administration of Postgraduate students and the student experience. Postgraduate research students come from varied backgrounds, will already hold an undergraduate degree and will work on a research project supervised by a dedicated supervision team. The Student Office Team, led by the Student Programmes Officer, provide support to staff and students across all Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes including research within the Department. Within the Team, Coordinators are each assigned lead (or core) responsibility for specific activities or year groups whilst being able to assist across the whole provision as required.

Our Lancaster University values believe in respecting each other by being open and fair and promoting diversity, building strong communities by working effectively together in a supportive way and creating positive change by being ambitious in our learning, expertise and action.

ABOUT YOU

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THE BENEFITS OF THE ROLE

LEC is a large department with around 650 undergraduate students, 80 taught postgraduate students, 160 postgraduate research students, over 80 academic staff, 50 research staff and over 50 professional services staff (administration, business-facing and technical). LEC's teaching and research focus on the environment, spanning across social and natural sciences.

Further information about the Department can be found at https:// www. lancaster.ac.uk/lec/

The start date is as soon as possible.

Please upload a cover letter with your application. In your cover letter, please include your rationale and interest in applying for this particular post, and examples of your commitment to the ongoing development of skills and experience.

For each of the supporting statements in the application form, please include examples to show your experience and/or skills in that area.

We welcome applications from people in all diversity groups, for this indefinite, part-time 22 hours (0.6 Full Time Equivalent) post.

We encourage informal enquires to discuss any aspect of this role either via telephone or an in-person meeting. To arrange please contact: Informal enquiries are encouraged and can be made to Lynne Haley (Departmental Administrator) at [email protected]

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