I-REACCH Data Officer

In regards to the function
Are you enthusiastic about enhancing analysis tradition throughout the Greater Schooling sector? The Wellcome Belief has funded a workforce of researchers to search out new methods to innovate, affect coverage, and make a distinction to employees and pupil participation in how we work collectively. We hope that you’ll apply to affix on this thrilling profession alternative.

You’ll pro-actively assist to form the long run path of analysis tradition on the College of Leicester. Our shared intention is to be inclusive, promote fairness and lengthen variety. 5 workstreams (see under) are going to check new concepts and methods of enhancing the development of people that usually really feel excluded from a college profession construction.

Funded by the Wellcome Belief as a part of its Institutional Funding for Analysis Tradition scheme, you can be becoming a member of a devoted workforce to ship the I-REACCH (Inclusive Analysis Tradition Achieved by way of Tradition Change) mission. Because the Information Officer for I-REACCH, you’ll convey your expertise and abilities to assist the supply of a brand new and thrilling piece of labor for Leicester College.

I-REACCH is a spread of complementary pilot initiatives, centered on under-represented teams, which is able to mix information assortment/evaluation, bespoke intervention improvement, engagement and analysis by way of 5 aims (O).

O1. Trial lively inclusive recruitment practices for elevated variety
O2. Develop bespoke inclusive instruments for profession development
O3. Increase citizenship engagement and advocacy to boost an inclusive tradition
O4: Interact with analysis leaders to create empathic fashions of inclusive management for sustained change.
O5: Robustly consider every of the pilot initiatives

You’ll be supervised by the I-REACCH mission supervisor and assist by an skilled Undertaking Management Crew (Throughout Life, Engineering and Social Sciences and Skilled Providers), and work carefully with our newly shaped, progressive ‘Mirror Co-Investigator’ workforce comprising researchers, technicians and employees with lived expertise of analysis tradition challenges who’re uniquely positioned to form our analysis exercise and developments.
About you
Becoming a member of us with a level or equal expertise, you’ll play a significant function within the co-design, co-development and co-delivery of the I-REACCH programme. Your information and evaluation abilities will be sure that the supply meets (and the place potential exceeds) expectations together with reporting milestones. The every day duties will contain you engaged on information units, establishing report frameworks and liaising with colleagues throughout the College to make sure efficient communication and studying from the mission to make sure most organisational impression. You will want to be extremely pro-active and motivated by our imaginative and prescient for a extra inclusive analysis tradition.

We wish this submit so as to add worth to your profession and supply a significant enhancement to your abilities and expertise by way of lively mentorship, upskilling and significant profession improvement.

Further data
We welcome casual enquiries and can be happy to share extra details about the submit, so please don’t hesitate to contact: Dr Alex Goddard (he/him), co-investigator and Head of Doctoral Faculty, [email protected]

We anticipate that interviews will happen throughout week commencing 22 April 2024.


Functions for job share can be thought-about.

The College of Leicester has been altering the world, and altering individuals’s lives, for 100 years. If you be a part of us, you’ll turn into a part of a neighborhood of Residents of Change , which incorporates not solely our employees and our present college students but additionally hundreds of Leicester graduates world wide.

As a various and forward-thinking employer, we embed the ideas of equality, variety and inclusion into the whole lot we do. That features not simply our core missions of instructing and analysis, but additionally our assist for workers, college students and our local people by way of our values of Inspiring, Impactful and Inclusive.

We’re dedicated to the wellbeing of all our employees and to the sustainability of the environment, on our campus and past. We provide a aggressive wage bundle, wonderful pension scheme and a beneficiant annual depart allowance, together with alternatives to develop your profession in a supportive and collaborative surroundings.