Project OfficerUniversity

About the role

The National Federated Compute Services (NFCS) NetworkPlus is a two-year UKRI/EPSRC funded programme, building a community around national federated computational research services and developing two roadmaps for future UKRI investment in this space. We are about to deliver on these outcomes and have been given a 6-month extension during which we will be convening and expanding the research, technical, institutional and policy communities that will be needed to move federation from roadmap to adoption.

Within the scope of this 0.4 FTE contract, this role will work as a key member of the (part-time) Lead Team through the provision of comprehensive and highly professional project management support and senior administrative assistance to ensure that the NFCS NetworkPlus extension Programme produces its high-quality deliverables on time and to budget.

Led by Professor Jon Hays (QMUL), the Lead Team has membership from the EPCC, (University of Edinburgh), the STFC Hartree Centre, STFC Rutherford Appleton Labs, the University of Bristol and the University of Brighton. The Programme Management team consists of  this role working together with a Programme Manager (PM) and Technical Coordinators.

About you

You will be a competent project administrator, skilled across MS Office and familiar with administration-related IT systems and be able to apply database management skills to the project. Able to work unsupervised and to exercise initiative in managing your workload, you will also have experience in management of education/research-related events and managing budgets for these effectively and achieving value for money.

We are looking for someone who has good communication skills, in-person and written, who is effective at building and developing professional relationships. And if you have used compute in a research context, this would be a useful asset.

About the school

The School of Physical and Chemical Sciences is a thriving and friendly place to work and maintains a tradition of outstanding research in ground-breaking fields.

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.

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.