Research Fellow (Project Officer) (109758-0924)

Location: University of Warwick Campus, Coventry

Duration: Ending 30 September 2025

About the Role  

For informal enquiries, please contact Remzi Becer (Professor) at Remzi.becer@warwick.ac.uk. 

The Department of Chemistry is actively looking for a Research Fellow (Project Manager) who will be responsible for the management of the recently awarded EU Horizon project: NATPRIME ‘Effective Delivery of Nucleic Acid Therapeutics via Designed Nanocarriers’. The project brings together academics and companies with expertise in organic synthesis, polymer synthesis, biophysics, particle science, biology, immunology and molecular machines. The consortium includes ten institution members and three companies, with the University of Warwick and Eindhoven University of Technology as the lead institutions. The team at the University of Warwick will be comprised of NATPRIME Coordinator and Lead Investigator Prof. Remzi Becer (Chemistry) and the appointed Research Fellow (Project Officer).

The post holder will be required to link with Brussels and the project partners across the eleven collaborating institutions/companies and take a lead on the management and coordination aspects. Post holder will be required to travel frequently within the UK and EU to organise and attend the consortium meetings, keep the minutes and prepare the reports of the meetings and prepare them to be submitted to the EU portal. Scientific knowledge and experience in the relevant field is desired for the post holder.

We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.  

About You  

You will have the ability to interact appropriately with a wide range of Academic and Professional Services colleagues both internal and external to the University.

You will need to be able to adapt quickly and professionally to the needs of the day, and to be able to cope well with conflicting demands. In delivering this role efficiently and effectively, you will be expected to exercise judgement and to use initiative in being proactive. This will require strong organisational skills, and the ability to carry out a wide variety of different tasks. An understanding of handling confidential information will also be necessary.

You will be educated to a PhD level, with a background in Polymer Synthesis. Experience of managing collaborative research projects and publications in a relevant field is desired.

For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.

If you are near submission or have recently submitted your PhD but have not yet had it conferred, any offers of employment will be made as Research Assistant at the top of level 5 of the University grade structure. Upon receipt of evidence of the successful award of your PhD, you will be promoted to Research Fellow on the first point of level 6 of the University grade structure. 

CLOSING DATE: Sunday 13 October 2024 at 11.55 pm

Full details of the duties and selection criteria for this role can be found in the vacancy advert on the University of Warwick's jobs pages. You will be routed to this when you click on the Apply button.

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