Here at the University of Lincoln, we aim to provide a vibrant community of staff and students, where all of us can share new knowledge, skills, ideas, and approaches.

We offer a range of exciting career opportunities, with competitive salaries, generous benefits packages, training and development programmes, and health and wellbeing support, giving you the chance to reach your full potential.

Supporting Our Staff

At the University of Lincoln, we see our colleagues as individuals and we offer a range of benefits to help enrich your life and support your specific needs during your time with us.

We can help you with all aspects of your wellbeing, offering rewards and flexible ways of working that can sit more comfortably alongside your family life and other commitments. We also offer generous annual leave packages, closure days, and parental leave..

Our lifestyle benefits include:

• a minimum of 30 days annual leave plus 14 concessionary days
• a variety of pension and saving options depending on your role at the University to ensure you are planning for the future
• staff pay increases up a salary scale annually
• generous sick pay from day one of employment
• supportive leave approaches for parents and carers
• discounted lifestyle support for wellbeing, holidays, and day-to-day purchases

Reaching Your Full Potential

The University offers a range of training and development opportunities, designed to support your skills, knowledge, and behaviours, as well as enhancing your wider career aspirations. Opportunities include:

• a 'Welcome to Lincoln' induction session, alongside a supportive induction plan to help you settle into your new role
• A tailored conference for all of our new academics to ensure a great start to your career with us
• annual academic promotions round
• engagement groups to share best practice
• funding to enrol onto a staff apprenticeship (varying levels available), with funds also available for start-ups
• an inclusive mentoring scheme
• accredited qualifications for management and leadership
• funded places on external programmes such as Advance HE Aurora
• sponsorship of tuition fees for University of Lincoln programmes of study (e.g. undergraduate, postgraduate, or doctorate)
• full access to our library and academic subject librarians
• participation in a review and development scheme with the focus on work loading via a model that gives people the time for development and research, taking an holistic view of work life for you as an individual
• Administration support

Encouraging Excellence and Supporting Success in Research

At the University of Lincoln, we understand the importance of providing staff and students with the best possible environment for pursuing research that can support our communities, improve lives, and change the world.

Our institutes, centres, and groups provide a wide range of opportunities for research, nurturing creativity and encouraging ideas that can challenge the status quo, while also promoting inclusion and diversity, and pursuing cross-disciplinary, collaborative research with rigour and integrity. By focusing our research around core themes, challenges, and priorities we aim to cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries while ensuring specialisms can emerge and flourish, driven by a culture of curiosity and innovation.

Networks like our Lincoln Institute for Advanced Studies and initiatives like our Undergraduate Research Opportunities Scheme provide further opportunities for academics at different career stages and students of all levels to work together on internationally significant research projects.

Major investments in new buildings, advanced equipment, and state-of-the-art research facilities are helping to ensure that we continue to provide a vibrant academic environment for our researchers and attract high-quality staff, creative and productive students, and strengthen successful research collaborations with other universities and industry partners.

Wellbeing

Here at Lincoln, we offer a range of health and wellbeing benefits and activities. These include on-site health checks, sports injury clinics, and flu vaccinations. You can also take part in social football, netball, running, and community events such as the Lincoln 10k.

The University provides colleagues with access to a 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, including specialist phone line support, interactive online sessions, and an app to monitor your own wellbeing at home.

We promote an open culture at Lincoln, prioritising mental health by increasing awareness, encouraging two-way conversations, and highlighting the support available at all stages of your employment. Colleagues can attend stress awareness and emotional intelligence sessions, and also have access to mental health first aiders for instant help and guidance.

Education is at the core of our provision and we encourage our colleagues to develop and grow, whether that is through our award-winning Financial Education Programme, neurodiversity awareness sessions, or by learning new skills, such as sign language.

We’ve invested more than £375 million in our Brayford Pool Campus over the last two decades to create the best possible learning and teaching environment. Our buildings feature modern office spaces, scientific laboratories, state-of-the-art clinical suites, workshops, specialist arts studios, a 450-seat theatre, advanced research facilities, and a range of lecture theatres. You also have access to our on-campus sports centre and activity programmes to support your physical and mental health.

One Community

Community is central to the way that we work and support each other here at the University of Lincoln and we encourage connectivity through a range of groups and activities including leisure, environmental, volunteering, and social activities. We also support each other and bring together new knowledge, skills, and approaches through our One Community values.