Support AdministratorUniversity

About the Role

The purpose of the role is to administer and support the day-to-day running of the Centre for Early Career Researchers Doctoral Training Entities (DTE) training provision. Key activities will include the collation and organisation of information relating to PGR training opportunities across Queen Mary University of London; the maintenance of associated spreadsheets; support for CECR training events.

The role will involve close working with colleagues in the CECR and postgraduate administrators and Directors of Graduate Studies across QMUL, along with the Research Degrees Office and other professional services colleagues.

The post holder will work within the CECR team, reporting to the CECR Coordinator.

About the Centre for Early Career Researchers

Queen Mary’s Centre for Early Career Researchers (CECR) (formerly the Doctoral College) is responsible for the lifecycle of postgraduate research (PGR) students and early career researchers (ECR) at QMUL. The team is responsible for the recruitment and admission, training, and examination of Queen Mary’s PGR students, and the lifecycle of ECRs at QMUL.

The Centre for Early Career Researchers is a core part of the QMUL research directorate and works closely with Schools and Institutes, the Research Degrees Office, the Vice Principal for Research, Queen Mary Students Union and a number of internal and external stakeholders.

The Centre for Early Career Researchers is recruiting a support administrator to assist with an enhanced and expanded training offering provided. The role will work directly with the CECR Coordinator.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

£33,263 to £40,015 per annum (pro rata).