Professional Research Investment and Strategy Manager

About us

The UCL Centre for Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is UCL’s new institute for infrastructure and innovation in digital research - the supercomputers, data-sets, software, and people that make computational science and digital scholarship possible.

We are an innovative hybrid: a professional services department that delivers reliable and secure infrastructure and services to UCL research groups, and a laboratory for research and innovation in the application of advanced computational and data-intensive research methods, working in partnership with academics from all fields.

We are a home for the research technology professionals - research software engineers, HPC systems engineers, dev-ops specialists, data engineers, data scientists, data stewards, and Professional Research Investment and Strategy Managers - who support and collaborate in the delivery of UCL research, providing outstanding career development opportunities for these new kinds of research professionals.

About the role

You will be part of ARC’s community of staff scientists, research technology professionals, and professional research investment and strategy managers, both delivering the services and systems which make data and compute-intensive research possible, and discovering and innovating new tools, practices, and systems in this field. Our positioning as a hybrid of a research institute and service centre means these activities will be synergistic.

This role would initially focus on supporting the ARC Education team, by creating, and updating departmental education website content, organising teaching and learning events, assisting with transcripts. As well as supporting, developing and organising existing and future courses and teaching material.

About you

ARC is looking for an experienced, self-driven individual to support a new and growing Department leading in Academic Research and Professional Service delivery.

The successful candidate will be able to:

• Experience of delivering projects or initiatives successfully
• Experience of organising events, meetings, round tables, symposia or conferences
• Experience of developing content for marketing, websites or other communications for a range of audiences

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days annual leave purchase scheme
• This post is eligible for USS Pension Scheme
  • defined benefit scheme
  • staff contribute 6.1% and UCL will contribute 14.6%
  • Life insurance is included (3x salary)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

Our department is working towards an Athena SWAN award. We are committed to advancing gender equality within our department.

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