Senior Research Manager

About the Role
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) is seeking to recruit a Senior Research Manager who will play a key role in the development and implementation of the Faculty’s research and innovation strategy. You will be the lead contact for all research and innovation activities in your designated School and oversee delivery of excellent research support across your allocated areas. You will line manage a team of Research Managers and a Research Officer.

You will work closely with the Strategic Faculty Research Manager, the Dean of Research, Directors of Research and Strategic Theme Leads on the implementation of your area’s research strategies.

About You
The role is based within the Faculty Office and requires maintaining close links with academic and Professional Services staff in allocated Schools, the wider Faculty Research Support Team and central services.

Effective communication and relationship management across multiple and varied stakeholders internally and externally is a key requirement as is the ability manage a team in a fast-moving environment.

The successful candidate will have relevant experience of bid development and research management in an academic environment and line management experience.

About the Faculty
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences has eight Schools across which 7,000 students are hosted and to which approximately 600 academic staff belong. The Faculty is committed to excellence in research and innovation, and to delivering an exceptional education and student experience across all of our disciplines.

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.

Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a 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.

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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