Impact and Engagement Project Officer

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £32,296 to £34,866 with potential progression once in post to £39,105

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract up to June 2028 

Travel may be required for this role. 

This role will support two programmes:

• The Energy Demand Research Centre (EDRC)
• Clean Energy and Equitable Transportation Solutions (CLEETS)

The role within EDRC requires significant experience of setting up and managing impact monitoring systems, engaging with and managing stakeholder relationships, supporting and running events (online, in-person and hybrid) and providing secretariat support for working groups. An interest in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and knowledge of, or interest in, energy demand will be an advantage. 

The role within CLEETS will include financial administration, providing secretariat support, organisation of meetings and events, and managing key stakeholder relationships. 

The role will be managed by EDRC’s Impact and Engagement Manager and based at the University of Birmingham.

Main Duties

The Impact and Engagement Project Officer will be capable of managing smaller projects in their entirety or elements of larger projects through well-developed and timely project management support. You will be expected to work proactively, and use your initiative and planning skills to set your own priorities to ensure progress is maintained as expected, identify any issue and propose solutions. 

Within this general framework, your main duties will be to:

• Advise on the development and implementation of the impact and engagement strategy, working alongside the EDRC Impact and Engagement Manager. 
• Support the delivery of EDRC’s impact and engagement strategy internally and externally, with policy and industry stakeholders and the publics with whom we engage.  

Required Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Experience

• Educated to Degree level (or equivalent qualifications). Where no equivalent qualification is held, significant practical relevant experience and expertise in a similar role will be required.
• Significant evidence of experience in supporting impact and/or engagement in a research context or other similar context. 
• Evidence of literacy and numeracy, with the ability to write clearly, and to analyse information and data.
• Highly proficient IT skills, including the wider MS Office suite of programmes including Excel and PowerPoint.
• Excellent analytical skills used to produce reports, identify issues and resolve them decisively.
• Excellent interpersonal skills. The postholder must inspire confidence and command authority with a range of colleagues and provide excellent customer service at all times.
• A high degree of professionalism, tact, and diplomacy, and the ability to exercise discretion regarding the handling and management of sensitive information/issues.
• Knowledge of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010, and how to actively ensure in day-to-day activity in own area that those with protected characteristics are treated equally and fairly.
• Interest in energy research and EDI.

Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Experience working in a university or consortium context.
• Experience of working with energy demand and/ or transport decarbonisation research, or a closely related area.
• Experience of working on EDI issues or implementing EDI policies.

Informal enquiries to Sarah Higginson s.l.higginson@bham.ac.uk

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We value diversity and inclusion at the University of Birmingham and welcome applications from all sections of the community and are open to discussions around all forms of flexible working.

Closes: 6^th January 2025

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