Local Health Global Profits Project Officer

The UK is experiencing a growing population health challenge – an ageing society, stalling life expectancy, increasing health inequality and a growing number of people living with a major illness. Meanwhile, approximately 40% of chronic disease deaths globally are directly linked to just four products manufactured by transnational corporations: tobacco, ultra-processed foods, alcohol and fossil fuels.

The Local Health Global Profits research consortium brings together researchers with local governments, public health practitioners, civil society organisations and local populations to understand the factors that impact on population health and the effective, scalable interventions to tackle them.

About the role

As the LHGP Project Officer, you will work with academics, researchers and professional colleagues to:

• Support different groups in the governance structure, which are responsible for deciding the strategy and overseeing operations of the project.
• Coordinate and manage LHGP meetings, workshops and events.
• Support delivery of communications for the LHGP project and a national strategy to raise the profile of the commercial determinants of health (CDOH), including web content creation, newsletter distribution, social media assets and blogs.
• Accurately record impact for the LHGP project. 
• Support the financial processes of the LHGP project.
• Support the LHGP Director (and other senior consortium staff) so they can effectively lead the project, such as diary management and booking meetings.

Based within the Centre for 21st Century Public Health at the University of Bath, you’ll be joining a friendly and dynamic team of multidisciplinary researchers working at the cutting edge of public health research. 

Further information 

This post is offered on a full time basis (36.5 hours per week), for a fixed-term period until 31 March 2028. 

Travel in the UK to research meetings event will be required.

The post will be located in the Centre for 21^st Century Public Health on the University campus where hybrid working is in operation. You will be expected to work on campus a minimum of 2 days per week. 

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Cheryl Routley, Consortium Manager via email: clr65@bath.ac.uk

A confident and efficient administrator you’ll ideally have experience of working in complex environment with multiple stakeholder groups. 

You will:

• Have experience of working with multiple teams and across various management platform (such as finance, HR and contract systems) with previous work history managing complex budgets.
• Be an effective communicator, work with a high level of accuracy and be able to absorb information about the research project you support. 
• Be confident in building relationships with academic colleagues, partners and external stakeholders.

Knowledge and understanding of the UK health landscape and experience of working with academic and research professionals would be an advantage.

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

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