Project Manager for Medical Anthropology of the Anthropocene / Anthropocene Health

About us

The Department of Anthropology at UCL is a research-led department with an international reputation, offering innovative teaching programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

About the role

This is a position for a project manager to provide organisational and technical support for the final stages of the collaborative project “Embodied Inequalities of the Anthropocene; building capacity in medical anthropology”, a collaboration between UCL in the UK, CIESAS in Mexico and UFRGS in Brazil.

This post is fixed-term, part-time (0.7 FTE) for 8 months starting on 15th November with a salary £51,474 including London Allowance, pro rata.

About you

We seek candidates with technical expertise and experience of working on multi-media projects. If a suitable candidate has research interests in any of the fields related to the project: Anthropocene health, population and reproductive justice, COVID-19 and the Anthropocene, indigenous ontologies and the Anthropocene, feminist science and technology approaches to the Anthropocene, ecologies of the Anthropocene, there will be the opportunity to incorporate any relevant research outputs into the teaching platform, but this is not an essential requirement of the post.

Applicants should hold a PhD in Social Sciences relevant to the theme of the project the Anthropology of the Anthropocene, and have some experience of working with multi-media inside or outside academia. Successful candidates will be based at UCL in London.

It is desirable that the candidate is competent in either Spanish or Portuguese, two of the project languages and the languages in which some of the materials we work with will be written/spoken.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits. Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

How to Apply:

For further information or to apply, click the ‘Apply’ button.

Please ensure that you include in your statement in support of your application an account of the ways in which your commitment to equity and social inclusion informs your work, addressing your track-record and experiences in this area in either or both of your teaching and research statements. In doing so, you are welcome to include also examples of how your personal or academic experience informs work you may have done engaging with the public, for example through volunteering, mentorship, care work or community-focused activities.

A CV listing any publications can also be uploaded with your application.

Please ensure that you address each of the essential criteria in the person specification in your application. When we shortlist, applications are scored according to how they meet each of the essential criteria.

A job description and person specification can be accessed by clicking on the 'Apply' button above.

Interviews are expected to be on 19 October 2023

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s academic talent, from local to global. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates currently underrepresented in UCL’s academic, research and teaching workforce. These include: people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled-people; LGBTQ+ people; and women.

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