Location: | London |
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Salary: | £38,432 to £43,249 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Permanent |
Placed On: | 8th July 2025 |
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Closes: | 5th August 2025 |
Job Ref: | 119366 |
About Us
The Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences (NMES) is a vibrant faculty based in the heart of London with a long tradition of world-leading research and teaching in physics, mathematics, chemistry, informatics, engineering and natural sciences.
This role presents an exciting opportunity to be part of the research operations team that a wide-ranging research funding portfolio across our five departments.
Reporting to the Senior Research Operations Manager in the NMES Faculty Office at the Strand Campus, this is an integral role focused on supporting the departmental research operations teams and working on projects aimed at improving the service that we provide to academics.
About the role
The Senior Research Operations Officer will provide high-quality support to the team of research administrators across the Faculty and work closely with the research management team in the Faculty office to support the implementation of new, and the improvement of existing, processes. The successful candidate will also work on the delivery of Faculty projects aimed at improving the service that we provide to academics across the broad remit of research operations.
The post will report to the Faculty’s Senior Research Operations Manager.
The Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences (NMES) comprises Chemistry, Engineering, Informatics, Mathematics, and Physics – all departments highly rated in research activities and a wide-ranging portfolio of education programmes.
Celebrating diversity and supporting staff is important to us and we offer a range of provision including flexible working, caring support (including a Parenting and Carers Fund and the Carer’s Career Development Fund), training, and a variety of diversity and inclusion networks. Staff can apply for flexible working to help them balance the demands of their professional and personal commitments and we offer comprehensive leave policies for parental, adoption, surrogacy, dependant, and shared leave.
The university is making investment in NMES and both student and staff numbers are growing. Our staff come from over 45 countries and 56% of our students are from outside the UK. Principally located on the Strand Campus in the heart of central London.
This is a full-time post (35 hours per week) and you will be offered an indefinite contract.
About You
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:
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