Knowledge Exchange Fellow - Net Zero

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £45,585 to £54,395 with potential progression once in post to £61,198

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract up to September 2026 

Role Summary

You will be a pivotal player in the Wellcome Trust-funded project, WM-Net Zero, focusing on translating science into real-world impacts. Under the guidance of Dr. Louise Reardon, Prof Zongbo Shi and Dr. Suzanne Bartington, you will work closely with both the internal team and external stakeholders to ensure that our research informs and influences relevant strategies, decisions, plans, and activities.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Knowledge Exchange: Facilitate the seamless exchange of information and insights among scientists, policymakers, and stakeholders.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Develop and maintain relationships with existing and new stakeholders, understanding their needs and leading collaborative activities to maximize project output.
• Translation of Science for Policy and Practice: Collaborate with partners including the West Midlands Combined Authority to support the use of scientific findings for development of effective policies and practices.
• Impact Activities: Develop, deliver, and evaluate Net Zero, air quality, and health-related impact activities, projects, and case studies.
• Communication: Prepare and present project outcomes to regional, national and international audiences, ensuring that knowledge is accessible and actionable.

WM-Net Zero - “A Health-centred Systems Approach towards Net-Zero: Transforming regional climate mitigation policies” is funded by Wellcome Trust and co-lead by Professor Zongbo Shi and Dr. Suzanne Bartington. The overall aim of WM-Net Zero is to transform regional Net-Zero policy solutions by adopting a health-centred systems approach. To this aim, WM-Net Zero brings together scientists from a range of disciplines (including social science, climate, air quality, health and economics) from the Universities of Birmingham, Surrey, and York. Working with stakeholders from West Midlands Combined Authority, Defra, Birmingham City Council, Clean Air Fund, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, Coventry City Council, Solihull Council, Dudley Council, Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants, and WSP in the UK to develop new scientific understanding and tools to inform policy. WM-Net Zero is a transdisciplinary collaboration network involving 25 investigators and stakeholders, 11 researchers and a project manager.  

Person Specification 

• A first degree in relevant field such as environmental science, economics, political science, or equivalent professional experience
• A PhD or equivalent qualifications or experience
• Experience in knowledge exchange, ideally in the areas of climate, air quality, and/or health
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including very strong communication, explanation skills including the ability to communicate complex information to diverse stakeholder audiences
• Ability to work independently as well as within a multidisciplinary team
• Ability to manage own time and prioritise to meet deadlines, and to co-ordinate own work with others to avoid conflict or duplication of effort.
• Ability to assess resource requirements and use resources effectively (including people, time, money and equipment)
• Ability to generate and communicate technical and non-technical benefits
• Understanding of and ability to contribute to broader management/administration processes
• Ability to contribute to the planning and organising of the research programme

Informal enquiries to Dr Louise Reardon (l.h.reardon@bham.ac.uk) or Prof Zongbo Shi (z.shi@bham.ac.uk) 

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We value diversity and inclusion at the University of Birmingham and welcome applications from all sections of the community and are open to discussions around all forms of flexible working

Closes: 12/09/2024

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