Operations Coordinator South Kensington, England
Job description
The Department of Physics at Imperial College London invites applications for an Operations Coordinator. We are looking for someone who is excited to contribute to developing and enhancing our activities. You will have a particular focus on research support and communications management with opportunities to be involved in a broad range of activities.
Duties and responsibilities
You will be a key member of the Department’s Head of Department administration team working with the Research Operations Manager, Department Operations Manager and Executive Assistant to support the Head of Department and the Department’s Management Team.
You will
- lead on the promotion of research success and impact in particular the management, development and maintenance of the Department’s research focused digital media presence.
- provide high quality pro-active research support and advice to researchers from all career stages, co-ordinating the preparation of research proposals and supporting the Department oversight of post-award grant processes.
- provide support to underpinning Department administrative, management and strategic activities as well as working to support the implementation of new, and the improvement of existing, processes.
Essential requirements
You must be able to demonstrate the following essential criteria:
- Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification/experience
- Experience of prioritising and managing workload in order to meet deadlines, both prescribed and self-imposed
- Experience of developing effective relationships to influence direction, develop, agree and implement systems and procedures to meet agreed priorities
- Experience of manipulating data for analysis and presentation
- Experience in handling confidential matters with discretion
- Excellent interpersonal skills and influencing skills with a proven ability to communicate clearly and appropriately with a range of people at all levels
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent numeracy skills with the ability to interpret data and communicate for different purposes
- Highly developed IT skills and the ability to support improved communications, information and data dissemination
- Accuracy/ability to pay attention to detail
- Proactive commitment to ensuring good practice and following process/procedure
- Commitment to personal development
In addition, it would be desirable if you had:
- Experience of administration within higher education, another public sector or charitable body, industry, or similar organisations
- Experience managing digital media
- Experience of servicing committees or groups
Further information
The aim of the Department is world class science in fundamental theory, experimentation, leadership of large international projects, applications in advanced technology and development of specialist infrastructure and facilities. We are one of the largest Physics departments in the UK and in Europe, which enables us to create groups of international standing, and with sufficient scale and critical mass, that they influence the research agenda and attract the world’s top researchers. Our research portfolio covers the full range of theoretical and experimental physics, allowing us to respond rapidly to opportunities and initiatives.
More information about the Department of Physics can be found on our webpages.
The Department of Physics is an IoP JUNO Practitioner and an Athena Silver SWAN Award winner reflecting our commitment to building a supportive, inclusive and highly motivated community. See our EDI webpage for more Information. We strongly encourage applications from all backgrounds, especially those historically underrepresented in Physics
Further details about the position and application process are available from Louise Hayward, Research Operations Manager, ([email protected]) or Luke White, Department Operations Manager ([email protected]).
Documents
- Job-Description-NAT01390.pdf
