Research Integrity and Ethics Officer

Analysis Integrity and Ethics Officer
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Put up Particulars

Full time
Open ended

The time limit for purposes is midnight on Sunday 31 March 2024.
Interviews are anticipated to happen on Friday 19 April 2024.

There may be an expectation that work shall be undertaken within the UK.

The College of Stirling recognises {that a} various workforce advantages and enriches the work, studying and analysis experiences of your entire campus and better group. We’re dedicated to eradicating obstacles and welcome purposes from those that would contribute to additional diversification of our workers and be certain that equality, variety and inclusion is woven into the substance of the function. We strongly encourage purposes from folks from various backgrounds together with gender, id, race, age, class, and ethnicity.

The Put up

The Analysis Integrity and Ethics Officer will contribute to the efficient and environment friendly assist of analysis integrity and ethics by the sturdy administration of the College’s analysis ethics processes. The function holder shall be answerable for all operational facets of the analysis integrity and ethics processes, delivering coaching to workers, offering recommendation and fascinating with colleagues throughout the College to make sure that the suitable requirements are embedded throughout the College contributing to our analysis tradition. They are going to ship a extremely skilled stage of service as the primary level of contact for integrity and ethics associated enquiries.

Description of Duties

Act as a specialist contact level on a each day foundation for all queries referring to analysis integrity and ethics. Present sturdy, but proportionate steerage, liaise with colleagues throughout the College suggest options / actions to assist decision-making
Work collaboratively throughout the College to make sure that there’s a constant and harmonised strategy to analysis integrity and ethics
Determine gaps in and contribute to the event of analysis integrity and ethics processes at Stirling in response to researchers wants and exterior necessities
Interact with exterior companions, reminiscent of UK Analysis Integrity Workplace, Universities UK and networks of related skilled workers inside different Universities
Interact with colleagues throughout the College to determine, draft, put together and ship analysis integrity and ethics coaching alternatives
To offer recruitment and induction assist/coaching for panel members
Contribute to the evaluate of present insurance policies and practices, and improvement of recent insurance policies to enhance the extent and effectiveness of analysis integrity and ethics throughout the College
Interact in personal skilled improvement actions to maintain on high of quickly evolving legislative and regulatory necessities referring to analysis integrity and ethics, together with assurance and due diligence
Handle and keep information to make sure straightforward and correct reporting and knowledge administration
Implement and assist finest follow administrative processes associated to analysis integrity and ethics
Make sure that all integrity and ethics assets, notably on-line, are up-to-date.
Present a pre-screening evaluation of analysis ethics purposes to make sure they’re full and allocate them appropriately, flagging doubtlessly excessive danger or complicated circumstances previous to the precise evaluate course of
Present secretariat assist for the three Analysis Ethics Panels
Undertake such different duties, commensurate with the character and grade of the function, as could also be required

Important Standards

Educated to HND stage or equal (the place no formal {qualifications} are held, extra, related expertise is required) Or employment expertise throughout a spread of roles with growing ranges of duty
Expertise of offering recommendation and steerage in response to buyer enquiries in complicated, technical areas
Expertise of offering clerical assist to complicated processes, with consideration to element
Information of the present analysis panorama and of the broader context related to Greater Schooling, together with the potential to know the influence on the continuing operation and improvement of the function
Superior data, understanding and competence utilizing quite a lot of IT methods
Capacity to provoke processes and procedures to resolve new issues. Anticipates attainable implementation difficulties and identifies follow methods of overcoming or stopping them
Capacity to construct proactively productive and enduring relationships between inside and/or exterior our bodies to learn the College
Capacity to work independently in addition to a part of a crew
Glorious verbal and written communication abilities
Capacity to train judgement and perceive the implications of selections made
Capacity to prioritise a number of duties and meet deadlines
Flexibility, reliability and punctuality

Fascinating Standards

Expertise of working in a analysis setting inside Greater Schooling, ideally with data of analysis ethics and integrity
Expertise of working with analysis ethics methods
Skilled coaching, ideally a proper qualification delivered by an expert physique, reminiscent of ARMA
Participation inside exterior HE analysis funding networks, teams and our bodies

Behaviours and Competencies

The function holder shall be required to proof that they will meet the qualities related to the next behavioural competencies, as detailed inside the AUA Competency Framework.

Managing self and private abilities
Being conscious of your personal behaviour and conscious of the way it impacts on others, enhancing private abilities to adapt skilled follow accordingly.

Delivering glorious service
Offering the highest quality service to exterior and inside purchasers. Constructing real and open long-term relationships in an effort to drive up service requirements.

Discovering options
Taking a holistic view and dealing enthusiastically to analyse issues and to develop workable options. Figuring out alternatives for innovation.

Embracing change
Being open to and fascinating with new concepts and methods of working. Adjusting to unfamiliar conditions, shifting calls for and altering roles.

Utilizing assets successfully
Figuring out and making the most efficient use of assets together with folks, time, data, networks and budgets.

Participating with the broader context
Enhancing your contribution to the organisation by an understanding of the larger image and displaying dedication to organisational values.

Creating self and others
Displaying dedication to personal ongoing skilled improvement. Supporting and inspiring others to develop their skilled data, abilities and behaviours to allow them to achieve their full potential.

Working collectively
Working collaboratively with others in an effort to obtain targets. Recognising and valuing the completely different contributions folks carry to this course of.

Reaching Outcomes
Persistently assembly agreed targets and success standards. Taking private duty for getting issues finished.

About Us

The Directorate of Analysis, Innovation & Enterprise Engagement (RIBE) is the central skilled providers workplace on the College of Stirling which gives built-in analysis improvement, and innovation, enterprise and enterprise engagement assist to tutorial researchers, working in partnership to ship College strategic priorities. RIBE gives skilled assist throughout a broad vary of features together with:

Analysis Funding & Growth
Analysis Efficiency, together with assist for our Institute for Superior Research
Analysis Methods
Ethics, Governance & Integrity
Contracts
Innovation
Enterprise engagement
Entrepreneurship
Stirling and Clackmannanshire Metropolis Area Deal

Throughout all our groups, we hunt down alternatives to develop and make a major contribution to the College’s strategic imaginative and prescient. Our analysis grants and contracts revenue has been round £14M each year, with a major enhance anticipated this yr. Funding in our analysis methods gives skilled assist for our ethics course of, PGR purposes and analysis administration. Our devoted Innovation & Enterprise construction allows assist for enterprise improvement linked to the commercialisation of our analysis, in addition to supply of our Enterprise Programme which gives start-up and scale-up assist for companies led by our college students, alumni and workers.

Inside the Innovation & Enterprise context, we additionally coordinate the College’s engagement inside The Stirling and Clackmannanshire Metropolis Area Deal, which is a £214 million funding in the way forward for the area, unlocking potential to drive financial progress, productiveness and prosperity. This preliminary funding has potential to leverage extra non-public funding in extra of £640 million over the following 10 to fifteen years, delivering greater than 5,000 new jobs throughout a spread of sectors. Analysis and innovation is central to reaching this imaginative and prescient. Working intently with companions, the College can perceive the challenges companies are dealing with and pioneer new options, creating high-value jobs and supporting better productiveness.

The College

The College of Stirling is dedicated to offering training with a objective and finishing up analysis which has a optimistic influence on communities throughout the globe – addressing actual points, offering options, and serving to to form society. Stirling is 4th in Scotland and forty third within the UK for analysis influence, with 87% of its analysis having an excellent or very appreciable influence on society – and greater than 80% rated both world main or internationally glorious (Analysis Excellence Framework 2021).

The College of Stirling is ranked among the many high 30 UK universities for pupil satisfaction (Nationwide Pupil Survey) and high 30 within the UK for postgraduate pupil expertise (Postgraduate Taught Expertise Survey), and has an total five-star ranking within the QS Stars College Rankings.

Greater than 17,000 college students research with the College of Stirling globally, with over 140 nationalities represented on its scenic central Scotland campus alone. The College – additionally dwelling to 1,700 workers – is ranked first within the UK and high three on the planet for its campus setting (Worldwide Pupil Barometer 2022, wave two). Ranked first within the UK and high 5 on the planet for its sports activities services (Worldwide Pupil Barometer 2022, wave two), Stirling is Scotland’s College for Sporting Excellence. Its world-class services present the proper coaching setting for the College’s sports activities students – lots of whom compete on the highest stage, together with on the Olympics and Commonwealth Video games – and for college students, workers, and the broader group.

The College has twice been recognised with a Queen’s Anniversary Prize – the primary for its Institute for Social Advertising and Well being (2014) and the second for its Institute of Aquaculture (2019).

The College is a signatory to the £214 million Stirling and Clackmannanshire Metropolis Area Deal and a central accomplice of the Forth Valley College Faculty Well being Partnership.
www.stir.ac.uk @stiruni

Job quantity: SERV01880
Contract Kind: Open Ended
Posting Finish Date: 31-Mar-2024
Location:: Stirling Campus
Grade: Grade6 £29,605-£36,024 p.a.
School/Service: Analysis, Innovation and Enterprise Engagement

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