Research Assistant SBM

Queen Mary University of London is seeking a Project Manager to work on a brand-new Queen Mary PPE funded project to develop a Green Virtual Space focused on sustainability. 

We are seeking a motivated and passionate colleague to work on a funded strategic project 'Sustainability in the Curriculum: Queen Mary Green Space for Sustainability Awareness' . As a Project Manager, you will support and lead the development of an innovative, non-credit sustainability course open to Queen Mary staff, students, and the East London community. This course will focus on sustainability awareness, knowledge, and skills, with content centered around the UN Sustainable Development Goals and UNESCO sustainability competencies. The focus for this role will be to support the co-ordination and delivery of the project.

The role will last for 10 months (November 2024-August 2025), and will involve approximately 8 hours? work per week. Hours can be worked flexibly to fit around your schedule. 

Main duties and responsibilities 

Project management

• Manage project progress via appropriate tools such as a risk register, RACI matrix, progress/milestone trackers/Gantt chart. Provide regular updates to the project directors with regards to overall progress, milestones, interdependencies, and key deliverables.
• Support day to day running of the project and provide the main point of contact for project coordination and managing relationships.
• Maintain clear and effective communication with external partners, collaborators and the public.
• Organise, facilitate and ensure smooth running of project team meetings, stakeholder meetings and community workshops.
• Manage the budget, track spending and support effective procedures in the overall team ensuring compliance with the funding organisation.

Data management and analysis 

• Collection and collation of evaluation data.
• Accurate record keeping
• Analysis of data and production of reports on project progress.

Communication 

• Administration of communications, publicity and promotional materials to support the course development.
• Administration and maintenance of database of stakeholders.
• Assist in the preparation and collation of written documents (including statistics and data) for circulation. 
• Support production of content for the course on the university?s virtual learning environment QMplus (based in Moodle).

General administration 

• Finance administration, including purchasing, setting up suppliers and processing finance records using Agresso. 
• Monitor and manage all relevant email accounts/ inboxes (and where appropriate other platforms), responding to or forwarding queries in a timely and consistent way to address the ongoing review and enhancement of all matters relating to effective administration and management. 

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The successful candidate will have experience of:

• Project management and administration, preferably within the context of Higher Education.
• Subject matter knowledge or experience related to sustainability is a plus, but not essential.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills to manage relationships with students, staff, and other internal and external collaborators.
• Strong understanding of data analysis and management to support reporting on project progress and impact.
• Familiarity with Moodle or similar learning management systems (e.g., QMplus) would be beneficial.

JOB TITLE: Workshop facilitators
Open to PHD and MSc students only

About us:

King's Entrepreneurship Institute is the dedicated hub of all entrepreneurial activity at King's College London. For almost 200 years, King's has been striving to improve the world and today is bursting with creative problem solvers, innovative thinkers and entrepreneurial leaders. We believe that everyone can be entrepreneurial, and that entrepreneurial people can help make the world a better place by solving problems to create a healthier, smarter, more equal and sustainable future. 

About the role:

Throughout the academic year we deliver a range of free workshops, events, competitions and programmes to help our thriving King's community get ahead. We are looking for looking for PhD and MSc students at King's College London of all disciplines to support the delivery and facilitation of the workshops. Our workshops, events, competitions and programmes support community of King?s College London students, alumni and staff to: 

• Develop an entrepreneurial mindset, supporting whatever career or future they have in mind;
• Explore and progress their ideas and launch them into potential ventures;
• Scale their business and skills on one of our accelerator programmes;
• Connect and collaborate with a community of like-minded innovators and changemakers. 

Benefits:

By taking part, aside from gaining invaluable experience for your CV and working alongside a great team, you will:

• Learn about entrepreneurship in an in-depth way and develop your entrepreneurial skills, 
• Practice your workshop delivery and facilitation skills, this role is ideal for those that would like to go into a career of teaching
• Be able to evidence your experience of delivering sessions to diverse audiences,
• Develop compelling public speaking skills

Details:

• Up to 10 hours per month during teaching terms
• 20.46 hourly rate
• Although Strand Campus is listed the role will require work across all campuses 
• Applications close at 23:59 on Sunday, 29 September
• Interviews to be held: 21st October (in person, Entrepreneuership Institute Bush House, Strand Campus)
• Start date: 25 October

TO APPLY: Email ei-ops@kcl.ac.uk your CV and 1 A4 page Coverletter (text font size 12)

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Essential: 

• Currently enrolled in a PhD programme or MSc programme at King?s College London (any discipline) at the time of application;
• Having a strong interest in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial skills development;
• Excellent communication and networking skills;

Desirable: 

• Experience in teaching in higher education setting and/or delivering workshops within or outside of higher education context;
• Has previously engaged with King?s Entrepreneurship Institute and attended programmes delivered by King?s Entrepreneurship Institute. 

Job description 

This role is open to applicants who have completed a physical science or engineering undergraduate course and have experience in qualitative and quantitative research.

The project will be managed by the Schools of Chemistry at Imperial College London (Charlotte Sutherell), King?s College London (Helen Coulshed), University College London (Anna Roffey), University of Glasgow (Frances Docherty).You will be managing 2 student research assistants in a research project that aims to understand the main barriers and enablers to a successful transition from school onto a chemistry degree program and how staff and student opinions differ. 

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Train student researchers on how to effectively review current literature on transition into university as it relates to lab-based degrees
• Support student researchers to write copy advertising the opportunity to participate in research via survey completion.
• Ensure survey distribution and survey upload to paper.io is done efficiently. Ensure all issues raised by paper.io are dealt with promptly.
• Teach student researchers how to perform qualitative and quantitative data analysis 
  • choosing appropriate statistical tests, 
  • show them how to use relevant software e.g. SPSS and NVIVO
• Facilitate discussion and collation of focus group themes.
• Train student researchers on how to give effective and respectful interviews. 
• Ensure that data collection and analysis is happening consistently and within the research project timeline. 
• Ensure data collection and management is in accordance with GDPR guidelines and data transfer agreement.
• Present findings to research group and key university stakeholders.
• Co-create a toolkit to onboard chemistry students into university. 
• Undertake any other reasonable duties as required by the team.

The role is fractional (0.1FTE October-July 2025). Hours of work will predominantly be scheduled remotely between Monday-Friday, 09.00-17.00 with some on campus meetings as needed and with prior agreement. There will be flexibility in how your hours are spread and you will be expected to manage your own workload depending on activity.

Physical science or lab based degree.

• Experience studying a science-based degree that involved lab work
• Strong interpersonal skills. 
• Ability to build relationships with a wide range of people from different backgrounds.
• Experience in managing own workload, planning, and organising projects or activities independently.
• Excellent communication skills and able to present ideas clearly.
• Ability to adhere to GDPR and ethical guidelines and to follow data storage security protocols.
• Experience of literature searching.
• Experience of reference management software.
• Experience of statistical analysis software (e.g. SPSS)
• Knowledge and experience of qualitative data analysis and associated software (e.g. NVIVO).
• Experience of audio recording and transcription software.