Senior Research Ethics Integrity Officer

Hours: full time hours considered up to a maximum of 36.5 hours per week.  

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

Contract Type: Maternity Cover – 1 year

See current salary scales.

Expected Interview date: TBC

Expected start date: July 2025

About the role

Applications are invited for this exciting, maternity cover post based in Research and Innovation Services, which is responsible for providing professional services and support for the University’s research and innovation activities.

The post-holder will be based in the Research Ethics, Integrity and Governance team which provides advice and professional support to the University's academic staff in achieving compliance with associated internal and external research ethics and governance procedures and standards.

The role involves:

• Supporting the delivery of high quality and effective systems for ethics review as undertaken by the Science Engineering Medicine Faculty Research Ethics Committee (SEM FREC) in BSMS
• Providing up to date and accurate information, advice and guidance to staff and students at all levels on research ethics, integrity and governance.
• Assessing queries and potential issues, advising on solutions and linking with relevant operational teams
• Developing and maintaining effective relationships to engender confidence and trust in the advice provided.

About you

You will have good secondary education (see role-specific criteria) or be qualified by professional experience.

You will have a good working knowledge of the area, and of at least one area of specialist research ethics and governance, including processes for setting up clinical research studies, research governance under the responsibility of the Health Research Authority, quality assurance processes for laboratory research, research integrity and university governance processes.

About our Division/School

Please find further information regarding the division at Research and Innovation: University of Sussex

Please find further information regarding the School at Brighton and Sussex Medical School

Brighton and Sussex Medical School is proud to hold a Gold Athena Swann Award.

Why work here

Find out more about our reward and benefits package.

Find out about our equality, diversity and inclusion

Further Key Information

Please contact Alice Saryazdi (alicesaryazdi@sussex.ac.uk)  for informal enquiries.

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

The University is committed to equality and valuing diversity, and applications are particularly welcomed from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Mathematics (STEMM) at Sussex.

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

The University requires that work undertaken for the University is performed in the UK. 

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