Internal Only – Research Associate in Organic Chemistry

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This publish is at the moment open to workers of Cardiff College solely.  Please don’t apply if you happen to wouldn’t have a present contract of employment with the College.

Analysis Affiliate in Natural Chemistry
Cardiff College of Chemistry
Cardiff College 

We search to recruit an enthusiastic, extremely motivated scientist with confirmed mental and technical skills to work on an natural chemistry challenge. The three-year challenge is funded by the Leverhulme Belief

The general focus of the programme is the event of artificial strategies for the uneven synthesis of strained hydrocarbons and the willpower of their bodily and chirotopic properties. This analysis challenge requires expertise in natural synthesis, organometallic chemistry and vary of characterisation strategies (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), mass spectrometry (MS) and chiral excessive efficiency liquid chromatography (HPLC)).
Candidates should maintain a postgraduate diploma at PhD degree (or nearing completion/ submission) in natural chemistry, or related industrial expertise.

Additional data is out there on the following group webpages:
Dr Matthew Tredwell https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/folks/view/1738620-tredwell-matthew
Dr Ian Fallis  https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/folks/view/38530-fallis-ian

For casual enquiries concerning the position and the Cardiff College of Chemistry, please contact Dr Matthew Tredwell: [email protected] .

For additional particulars about working at Cardiff College, please contact Ms Sian Moseley ([email protected] )

This place is full time (35 hours per week) and is out there from 1 Could 2024 for 3 years.

To work for an employer that values and promotes equality of alternative, please go to www.cardiff.ac.uk/jobs and seek for emptiness quantity: 18426BR.

Wage: £39,347 – £444,263 each year (Grade 6). It’s not anticipated that an appointment be made above £39,347 (Grade 6.32).

Essential observe: It’s the College’s coverage to make use of the individual specification as a key software for short-listing. Candidates ought to proof that they meet ALL of the important standards in addition to, the place related, the fascinating. As a part of the applying course of you may be requested to offer this proof through a supporting assertion.  Please be certain that the proof you’re offering corresponds with the numbered standards outlined beneath. Your utility can be thought of based mostly on the data you present below every ingredient.

When attaching the supporting assertion to your utility profile, please be certain that you title it with the emptiness reference quantity, e.g. Supporting Assertion for 18426BR.

Deadline: Wednesday, 27 March 2024

Exterior functions are at the moment not being thought of for this publish.  If the choice is made to open the publish to exterior candidates, the strapline on the high can be eliminated and you may be given ample time to use – please verify again periodically for particulars.

Please remember that Cardiff College reserves the suitable to shut this emptiness early ought to ample functions be obtained.

Cardiff College is dedicated to supporting and selling equality and variety and to creating an inclusive working surroundings. We consider this may be achieved by way of attracting, growing, and retaining a various vary of employees from many various backgrounds who’ve the ambition to create a College which seeks to fulfil our social, cultural and financial obligation to Cardiff, Wales, and the world.  In supporting our workers to realize a stability between their work and their private lives, we may also think about proposals for versatile working or job share preparations.
Functions could also be submitted in Welsh, and an utility submitted in Welsh won’t be handled much less favourably than an utility submitted in English.

Cardiff College is a signatory to the San Francisco Declaration on Analysis Evaluation (DORA), which implies that in hiring and promotion choices we’ll consider candidates on the standard of their analysis, not publication metrics or the id of the journal through which the analysis is revealed. Extra data is out there at:  Accountable analysis evaluation – Analysis – Cardiff College .

Job Description

Fundamental Perform 
To conduct analysis inside the Tredwell Group and Fallis Group within the subject of uneven synthesis of strained hydrocarbons and contribute to the general analysis efficiency of the College and College, finishing up analysis resulting in the publishing of high-quality analysis. To pursue excellence in analysis and to encourage others to do the identical.

Fundamental Duties and Obligations
Analysis

• To conduct analysis inside subject of natural chemistry/uneven synthesis and contribute to the general analysis efficiency of the College and College by the manufacturing of measurable outputs together with bidding for funding, publishing in nationwide educational journals and conferences, and the recruitment and supervision of postgraduate analysis college students;
• To develop analysis goals and proposals for personal or joint analysis together with analysis funding proposals;
• To attend and or current at conferences/seminars at a neighborhood and nationwide degree as required;
• To undertake administrative duties related to the analysis challenge, together with the planning and organisation of the challenge and the implementation of procedures required to make sure correct and well timed reporting;
• To organize analysis ethics and analysis governance functions as applicable;
• To evaluation and synthesise current analysis literature inside the subject;
• To take part in College analysis actions;
• To construct and create networks each internally and externally to the college, to affect choices, discover future analysis necessities, and share analysis concepts for the advantage of analysis initiatives.

Different

• To interact successfully with industrial, business and public sector organisations, skilled establishments, different educational establishments and so forth., regionally and nationally to lift consciousness of the College’s profile, to domesticate strategically precious alliances, and to pursue alternatives for collaboration throughout a variety of actions. These actions are anticipated to contribute to the College and the enhancement of its regional and nationwide profile;
• To bear private {and professional} improvement that’s applicable to and which can improve efficiency;
• To take part in College administration and actions to advertise the College and its work to the broader College and the surface world;
• To make sure that an understanding of the significance of confidentiality is utilized when endeavor all duties;
• To abide by the College insurance policies on Well being and Security and Equality, Range & Inclusivity;
• Some other duties not included above, however in step with the position.

Particular person Specification

Important Standards

{Qualifications} and Training

Postgraduate diploma at PhD degree (or nearing completion / submission) in natural chemistry, or related industrial expertise

Information, Abilities and Expertise

A longtime experience and confirmed portfolio of analysis or related industrial expertise inside the following analysis fields:

natural chemistry

organometallic chemistry

Information of present standing of analysis in artificial chemistry

Confirmed skill to publish in nationwide/worldwide journals

Information and understanding of aggressive analysis funding to have the ability to develop functions to funding our bodies

Communication and Staff Working

Confirmed skill in efficient and persuasive communication

Capacity to oversee the work of others to focus group efforts and encourage people

Different

Confirmed skill to display creativity, innovation and team-working inside work

Confirmed skill to work with out shut supervision

Fascinating Standards 

Expertise in uneven synthesis

Expertise in chemical synthesis of strained hydrocarbons.

Proof of skill to take part in, develop each inside and exterior networks, and utilise them to reinforce the analysis actions of the College.

Fluency in Welsh, written and oral

Extra Data

IMPORTANT NOTE TO CANDIDATES: It’s the College’s coverage to make use of the individual specification as a key software for short-listing and we solely invite candidates to interview who clearly proof that they meet (or partially meet) every of the important standards. Through the utility course of you may be requested to connect a supporting assertion. This assertion should define the way you meet the standards beneath and we advisable formatting this through the use of every standards as a sub-heading and offering your related expertise/proof beneath every sub-heading. It’s essential that you simply save your supporting assertion with the emptiness quantity (18426BR) within the filename as failure to take action might end in it being omitted out of your utility.

Job Class

Educational – Analysis