Research Impact Manager

Hours:  Full time, 37.5 hours per week.

Requests for flexible working options will be considered (subject to business need).

Applications must be received by midnight of the closing date.

Expected Interview date: To be confirmed  

Expected start date: 1^st August 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter  

About the role

Based within the University’s Research Information, Quality and Impact Team, the Research Impact Manager will support the development, recording and promotion of the University’s portfolio of real-world research impact, particularly (but not only) through developing impact case studies for the Research Excellence Framework (REF) and related projects and activities. The post holder will join colleagues in the team to act as the University’s principal experts, internal trainers, and co-ordinating managers for the submission of research impact to the REF, and will collaborate with colleagues across the academic Schools and central Professional Services to contribute to the REF submission and build and communicate the profile of outstanding real-world impact from Sussex research. The post holder will contribute significantly to the management of the REF submission as a project, and to ensuring effective governance arrangements are in place for it.

About you

You will be a self-driven individual, capable of managing a complex workload while both taking significant personal initiative and working effectively with colleagues in a team. You will be a confident communicator, able to effectively translate specialist knowledge and guide a diverse range of colleagues, some of them senior, on the basis of your own impact expertise. You will be able to absorb complicated information rapidly and with attention to detail, and you will have excellent professional writing and editorial skills.

You will have an existing strong knowledge of the REF, of government and funder policy on research, and of the issues involved in creating and communicating real-world impact from research. Ideally, you will have already supported the development of impact case studies and/or other aspects of a REF submission; and you may have worked more broadly on the communication of research, perhaps by writing copy or creating media on research and/or impact topics. You will have worked on substantial projects, including managing at least one aspect, stream or set of inputs into the project. You may have already worked for a university, research institute, research funder or government agency, and/or for another public, private or third-sector organisation that works closely with researchers to create change in the world.

Please contact Dominic Dean at d.dean@sussex.ac.uk for informal enquiries

For full details and how to apply please click the 'Apply' button, above.

The University of Sussex values the diversity of its staff and students, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

Please note: The University requires that work undertaken for the University is performed from the UK. 

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