Science Training Advisor

Location: The Francis Crick Institute, London

Short summary

The Francis Crick Institute’s Talent and Organisational Development team forms part of the Crick’s People team, and is responsible for the management, development and operation of the Crick’s training and career development programmes.

As a Science Training Advisor, you will be a key point of contact for Crick students, staff and external collaborators for matters relating to technical scientific training, community building and career development.

Working closely with the Crick Technician Commitment Lead, you will coordinate related activities and produce the institute’s regular self-assessment reports (including data gathering, analysis and tracking), action plans and associated activities. 

Additionally, you will manage the day-to-day delivery and marketing of the team’s training and career development activities, work closely with members of the wider People team and technical training community, and maintain a proactive and inclusive administrative service.

If you are seeking career development in learning and development and have a strong interest in this field, we would love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities 

These include but are not limited to: 

• Acting as a point of contact for the learning aspects of Udemy and Workday, the Crick’s HR System and proactive maintenance of the system; setting up courses, creating learning pathways, and tracking learner progress.
• Gathering, analysing and acting on evaluation and impact feedback; making appropriate and timely recommendations to inform the Crick Academy portfolio.
• Managing relationships with external and internal training facilitators; incorporating feedback, booking new courses, managing marketing and communications, providing support to host online and face to face courses.
• Budget tracking and managing purchasing processes.

About you

You will have:  

• Educated to degree level or equivalent, or have evidence of significant administrative, training or customer service work experience.
• Strong interest in exploring learning and career development as a profession.
• Significant experience of working effectively in a busy environment, with the aptitude for both coordination and delivery of relevant development activities.
• Ability to multitask and to prioritise a busy workload and competing deadlines.

About us

The Francis Crick Institute is a biomedical discovery institute dedicated to understanding the fundamental biology underlying health and disease. Its work is helping to understand why disease develops and to translate discoveries into new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, infections, and neurodegenerative diseases.

An independent organisation, its founding partners are the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, Wellcome, UCL, Imperial College London and King’s College London.

The Crick was formed in 2015, and in 2016 it moved into a new state-of-the-art building in central London which brings together 1500 scientists and support staff working collaboratively across disciplines, making it the biggest biomedical research facility under in one building in Europe.

The Francis Crick Institute will be world-class with a strong national role. Its distinctive vision for excellence includes commitments to collaboration; developing emerging talent and exporting it the rest of the UK; public engagement; and helping turn discoveries into treatments as quickly as possible to improve lives and strengthen the economy.

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