CDT Centre Manager

Location: South Kensington Campus

Job Summary

Applications are invited for a position of Centre Manager for the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning (StatML) in the Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London.

The EPSRC CDT in Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning (StatML) is a highly successful doctoral training centre led by Imperial with Oxford as an equal partner. It aims to train the next generation of leaders at the intersection of statistics and computer science, powering the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution. Students undertake fundamental research to develop novel theory and methods and work with industrial and academic partners to apply their research to make real-world breakthroughs in pressing problems in government, medicine, industry and science.

The centre has just taken its fifth cohort of students with a total of approximately 70 students at various stages of their training.  Further information can be found on the centre’s website: https://statml.io. The CDT is currently seeking renewal of its funding which, if successful, would see a further 5 cohorts admitted from 2024-2028 and offer a potential extension to the position.

Duties and responsibilities

You will have responsibility for the day-to-day running of the Centre, including monitoring the budget/accounts; administering student records and processes from recruitment to graduation; scheduling student training programmes; providing support to students; event management and facilitating interaction amongst and between students, academic staff and industry partners. You will be a key point of contact for the CDT and will contribute to promotional activities and raising the centre’s profile.  You will work in partnership with the Centre Manager based at the University of Oxford.

As a member of a small team, you will be expected to undertake duties in an independent manner without the need for close supervision and be capable of taking the initiative.

Job requirements

The essential requirements for this post are as follows:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
• Experience within Higher Education administration
• Experience of monitoring budgets and reporting on expenditure
• Experience of Event management, including organising conferences/workshops
• Experience of website content design and maintenance using the appropriate software
• Excellent organisation and project management skills; the ability to plan and prioritise workloads and to meet multiple fixed deadlines
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to credibly communicate with staff at all levels, in both written and oral formats
• Excellent committee servicing skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills in order to develop effective relationships with internal and external contacts at all levels of seniority
• Excellent IT skills, and the ability to get to grips with new electronic systems

Desirable skills for this post are:

• An understanding of postgraduate training issues and management of postgraduate education
• Knowledge of financial and operational systems in an academic environment
• Knowledge of legislation, policies and current issues relevant to and affecting the Higher Education sector

Further information

This is a full time, fixed term position until 30 September 2027. You will be based at South Kensington Campus.

For specific queries regarding the post please contact Dr Anna Radomska, Programme Project Manager (a.radomska@imperial.ac.uk )

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