Research Culture and Development Officer (CC12180)

Job title Research Culture and Development Officer

Department Research and Innovation Services (RIS)

Salary Starting from £29,605, rising to £36,024

Grade Grade 6

Contract Type Full Time, Fixed Term

Placed on Monday 28 October 2024

Closing date Monday 11 November 2024

Interview date To be confirmed

Reference CC12180

Applicant Visa Guidance Skilled Worker visa: guidance for applicants (bath.ac.uk)

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

As Research Culture and Development Officer, you'll be right at the heart of supporting change – coordinating a suite of development events and resources under a new Academy for early career researchers, and supporting governance structures, project plans, and finances that enable projects within the new Research Culture Action Plan to realise their planned benefits.

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

You will:

You may also have an insight into higher education or research-related environments in other sectors.

This is a fixed-term role until September 2025 with the possibility of extension, dependant on funding dependant.

The role is full-time (36.5 hours) available as a job-share with flexible working options if required.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Hayley Shaw, Research Culture Manager, at [email protected].

Find out more about our benefits.

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, so we 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 are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work. Follow us @UniofBath and @UniofBathJobs on Twitter for more information.

We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.