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Research Co-ordination Assistant (Environmental Sustainability) - UCL Graduates Only

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1095509


UCL


12/05/2025


Other - See Job


Part-time; 14 hours per week


Not Applicable

Pay


£18.88


£3.53

Description

Role

Unitemps are recruiting for a Research Co-ordination Assistant (Environmental Sustainability). This role is suitable for UCL Graduates only. This is a part-time role at 14 hours per week. This role is for a May 12th start date and has a projected end date of June 20th 2025. Payment is set at £18.88 per hour + holiday pay. This role will hybrid working with part from the office and part from home.
 
The Environment Domain is a pan UCL network connecting and championing cross disciplinary expertise in environmental research. Situated within UCL’s Research Co-ordination Office, the Domain’s remit includes supporting colleagues to identify research funding opportunities and develop strong research proposals. We are living in a period of unprecedented environmental change, where meaningful actions around environmental sustainability, the climate crisis and net zero are needed. The UK Research and Innovation (R&I) sector is well placed to lead the way in making R&I itself environmentally sustainable, alongside providing the R&I needed to help other sectors and wider society make this much needed transition.
 
This has led the community to co-develop a voluntary Environmental Sustainability Concordat, capturing this shared ambition for the UK to continue delivering cutting-edge research, but in a more environmentally responsible and sustainable way. UCL is a signatory of this Concordat.As a result of this, we are seeing environmental sustainability being much more prevalent in the grant funding space – this ranges from funder statements on sustainability, to sustainability being specifically incorporated into bid assessment processes. However, at present there is no uniform application of this, with the environmental sustainability ask varying between funders and between funding calls.
 
The role of the Research Co-ordination Assistant (Environmental Sustainability) offers an excellent opportunity for a post graduate researcher with a passion for sustainability and the environment, and knowledge of UK Research and Innovation, to play a critical role in scoping out the funding landscape with regards to sustainability and research grants.This is a fixed term role of 14 hours per week for 6 weeks commencing around the W/C 12 May until around W/C 23 June (some flexibility on these dates is available). The role is hybrid, with one day in the office every 2 weeks. The hours can be worked over 2 – 3 weekdays to suit the successful applicant.

Duties and responsibilities

Reviewing the current funding landscape:
  • Conduct a review of the current funding landscape, identifying key policies from funders including UKRI, the Royal Society, Wellcome, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Leverhulme Trust, CRUK.
  • Lead a deeper dive into individual funding calls and what the asks are around sustainability.
  • Collation of tools and practice examples as the come to light from the funders and research community.

Establish the needs of UCL’s research community:

  • Liaise with research co-ordination teams, research managers and Sustainable UCL around the needs of the research support community.
  • Collaborate with the Engineering Faculty around an example of researcher/ faculty needs linked to incorporating sustainability in research proposals. Where time allows, this can be extended to other faculties.

Reporting on findings:

  • Bringing information together into a report which can then be used to produce support documents/ best practice guides.

Skills and experience

What we are looking for:
 
A UCL postgraduate, with skills in reviewing and reporting findings, some knowledge of the funding landscape, awareness/ interest in sustainability and strong project management. This could be through their degree, postgraduate degree, relevant work-experience, volunteering or other personal projects in this area.
 
Essential criteria:
  • Is a current UCL postgraduate or postdoctoral researcher.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to review and synthesise a variety of information from different sources.
  • Organised, with excellent project management skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines effectively.
  • Ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders, both academics and professional services.
  • Passionate about sustainability, and an eagerness to contribute to championing sustainability in research.
  • Able to demonstrate basic knowledge of the UK research funding landscape.

Desired criteria:

  • A degree or experience relevant to sustainability/ the environment.

General:

  • Follow and actively promote the UCL Ways of Working.
  • Carry out any other duties within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job as requested by the line manager.

This job description may be reviewed and be subject to amendment in consultation with the post holder.

Location
UCL; hybrid working, part from the office and part from home

Additional information

This job will close for applications at 11.59pm on Thursday April 24th. Interviews will be held shortly after (as early as Friday May 2nd).

*Please note to be eligible to work within this role, you must have the right to work in the UK, be physically based in the UK and be able to travel to our London based office for a RTW check (if required).

*If you have a full-time contract of employment with UCL, you are not able to work through UCL Unitemps at the same time.

Unitemps reserves the right to close this advert for applications prior to the date specified above, if a high volume of suitable applications are received so pleased don't delay applying.

Unitemps payroll is monthly, one month in arrears, please see the payroll dates here.

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