Research Compliance Officer

The role

You will join a dynamic and rapidly evolving team responsible for advising research academics and professional services teams across the University, to ensure research activity is carried out with the highest degree of compliance with relevant legislation.

You will be involved in developing relationships with academic colleagues and will have a key role in providing advice and training to research academics and those professional services staff that support them on a wide range of legal compliance measures including (but not limited to) the following areas:

• Export Control Regulations
• National Security & Investment Act
• Nagoya Protocol and ABS legislation
• Trusted Research and Innovation

You will also assist with on-boarding new staff where appropriate, engage with internal stakeholders around sharing knowledge and best practice in a fast-paced and developing area of law, and provide a critical function in providing specialist advice around Government regulation created to protect UK national security and infrastructure.

What will you be doing?

You will:

• Be involved with investigating and managing enquiries from University academics and postgraduate students specifically pertaining to their research;
• Assist in establishing policy, processes and guidance around the University's response to legal compliance measures;
• Assist with training of professional services teams and research academics in the context of providing advice and awareness around research compliance requirements and associated risks of non-compliance;
• Provide input into wider internal communications around prevalent research security risks and in preparing material for updates to SharePoint;
• Horizon-scanning for arising risks and changes to legislation that could impact the University;
• Assist in developing a reporting function to showcase team growth with the aim of extending its reach and size in the short- and long-term; and
• Support the team in the development of new staff members.

You should apply if

• You are interested in developing an expanding area of legal expertise critical to research work in higher education.
• You are keen to understand new legislation, assess risk, and provide confident and assertive advice to senior personnel with legal and non-legal experience
• You have an awareness of policy and guidance processes, understanding the importance of audit functions.
• You have strong problem-solving capability, able to deal with a concurrent workload of different issues with shifting priorities.
• You have experience of providing supervision to junior staff members, and can assist in mentoring them through legal work experience and education.
• You have positive interpersonal skills to enable engagement with key stakeholders within the University.
• You are solutions-focussed, with a proactive and innovative approach to dealing with the challenges of working in a large, research-intensive University.
• Whilst experience in a regulatory/commercial environment is desirable, it is not essential. Relevant and detailed training will be provided.

Additional information

For informal queries about the role, please contact:

Oliver Geidel on Oliver.geidel@bristol.ac.uk

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