Research and Innovation Facilitator

Job title:

Research and Innovation Facilitator

Company

Liverpool Hope University

Job description

Liverpool Hope University is a vibrant academic community with high scholarly ambitions. We are proud of our past, confident in our present and ambitious for our future. We have submitted 100% of our Research active staff (colleagues with Significant Responsibility for Research) in thirteen Units of Assessment for REF 2021. The University has particular research strengths in areas of social sciences, humanities, creative and performing arts, education, health sciences, psychology, earth sciences, mathematics, computer science and engineering. This developing research expertise builds upon and complements our already well-established reputation for excellence in teaching and learning. We are a research-informed, teaching led University of distinction and we have already made excellent progress in making this ambition a reality. We are seeking staff who will join with us as Research and Innovation Facilitator in pursuit of furthering this goal.Research and Innovation FacilitatorIf you join us, you will be doing so at an exciting and challenging time and will have the opportunity to assist the task of building a liberal arts informed, humanities shaped university of distinction. If you have the drive and commitment to assist us in this task, we would be delighted to hear from you.The PostLiverpool Hope is serious about research. Throughout our corporate documentation, in our management structures, academic role profiles, promotions criteria and clearly stated priorities research is central. What we seek is research that will directly inform teaching, contribute to the building up of a strong academic community and have a positive impact on society. To facilitate further progress towards this goal the University wishes to appoint an experienced and successful Research and Innovation Facilitator to take responsibility for all aspects of identifying, securing and accounting for sources of research funding and for promoting and widening the impact of the University’s research as well as managing the research grants. Working alongside academics from Post-Doctoral Fellow to Professor across all ten Schools, your role will be to manage and take overall responsibility for supporting the securing of research funds and for enhancing, widening and deepening the impact of Hope’s work and research. This will include encouraging, supporting and assisting colleagues to develop grant applications and research bids from the modest to the ambitious. You will be responsible for identifying potential sources of research income, initiating bids, seeing them through to submission, accounting for research income and promoting dissemination of outputs. Your skills will include excellent data-gathering, productive liaison with others, facilitating the writing of research bids and grant applications, an ability to manage projects, meticulous record keeping and reporting and an ability to promote the University’s research externally. It is imperative that you possess precise skills in the area of the writing of research bids and grants such that you are able not only to support colleagues but to take a well-informed and highly-skilled lead. You will be the first point of call for academics seeking funding opportunities and ways in which to disseminate research outputs widely.We are looking for a senior colleague who will show initiative and drive and be able not only to coordinate but actively to manage research funding and dissemination.For an informal and confidential conversation about this post, please contact:Professor Atulya K. NagarPro Vice-Chancellor (Research)£45,585 to £54,395 per annum (Grade 8)

Expected salary

£45585 – 54395 per year

Location

Liverpool

Job date

Sun, 09 Jun 2024 04:27:15 GMT

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