Research Degrees Officer

About the Role
The Research Degrees Officer provides a professional, specialised service to research degree students and staff. This includes advising on regulations, policies and processes for research degree programmes, managing student records; studentship funding; examination matters and contributing to the development and improvement of policies, processes, systems, and other projects concerning research degrees and within Registry Services. You will be a member of the team of three Research Degrees Officers, each of whom manages the service to a designated set of schools and institutes. This is a hybrid role in a student facing office. RDO staff work in the office 3 days per week, with the opportunity to work from home according to business requirements and the staff office rota.

About You
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in higher education administration, ideally with experience of a student facing role. They will have a detailed knowledge and understanding of the structure of research degree programmes, experience in interpreting complex academic regulations and providing advice to students and staff, experience of student records management, and experience of improving services and processes.

About the Department
The Research Degrees Office (RDO) is a team in Registry Services within the Student Experience Directorate of Queen Mary Professional Services. RDO manages research degree programme administration and policies and provides student services throughout the research student cycle from enrolment through to examination and award of degree. The RDO works closely with other teams in Registry Services, the Doctoral College and the Dean for Postgraduate Research and Faculty Deputy Deans for Research, and with academic staff and administrators in the faculties and academic schools and institutes in which research students are enrolled.

Registry Services is responsible for the maintenance of student records from the point of enrolment through to award. This includes the creation of an academic timetable, the organisation and delivery of invigilated examinations, the distribution of the Queen Mary bursary and other approved scholarships, ensuring compliance with Home Office rules, supporting the student record system and dealing with academic and regulatory queries from both students and academic colleagues.

About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at Mile End campus.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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