Research Administrator: Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP)

The opportunity
UAL’s newly established Centre and Institute Operations Service seeks to recruit an experienced and proactive administrator to join the team on a part-time basis.

The successful candidate will be specifically assigned to support Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice research centre (CRiSAP) based at London College of Communication (LCC), working with the Centre Manager, Director, and other colleagues to deliver its diverse portfolio of activities.

CRiSAP is a research centre dedicated to the exploration of the rich complexities of sound as an artistic practice. Their main aim is to extend the development of the emerging disciplinary field of sound arts and to encourage the broadening and deepening of the discursive context in which sound arts is practiced.

About you
To succeed in this role, you will have excellent planning and organisation skills. You will be reliable and pride yourself on delivering high-quality work on time, with excellent attention to detail.

You will be motivated, hardworking and diligent, able to work independently across multiple long-form projects, using your initiative and creative problem-solving skills, and prioritising tasks when needed to deliver on time.

Excellent verbal and written skills are paramount, alongside the ability to work collaboratively as part of a team.

You will have experience of working in an administrative or production role with communications and events experience, preferably within the creative industries or creative research.

A knowledge and understanding of sound arts, practice-based research or another creative subject area is desirable.

We are UAL
University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

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Closing date: 23:55 on 30^th April 2024.

Our culture
UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn – a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.

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