EDI Coordinator

Hours: 0.38 fte (14 hours)  

Requests for flexible working options will be considered (subject to business need).

Expected Interview date: TBC

Expected start date: February 2025 

About the role

In this role you will provide administrative support and assist in coordinating processes and activities based upon the BSMS Athena Swan action plan. You will be a key contact between the School and the EDI team. You will collaborate with stakeholders and other colleagues across the School and the wider University. You will give advice in matters related to Equality Diversity and Inclusion.

About you

You will have proven effective planning and organisational skills to organise own workload and priorities and experience of working with colleagues and customers providing information and responding to questions and queries. You will have the ability to work flexibly within a small team and also on own initiative. Ideally you will have experience of working in the field of equality, diversity and inclusion within an education setting.

About our School

We are a diverse, collaborative research community with expertise in a wide variety of research areas, from laboratory research through to social science and clinical studies. Our close integration collaborations with local NHS organizations allows our researchers to work directly with the local population, improving their health while developing research work that can be applied nationally and globally.

Here, at our School, our medical research has and continues to develop a strong reputation for making a real impact locally, nationally and internationally. Ultimately, our research aims to:

• improve medical diagnosis and treatment
• answer fundamental biomedical and clinical questions
• deliver more personalised healthcare to patients.

We are passionate about training and supporting our researchers at all levels, to deliver research that is relevant to our stakeholders, accelerate its recognition and foster adoption of our findings to catalyse new research impact.

Please find further information regarding the School at Brighton and Sussex Medical School

Brighton and Sussex Medical School is proud to hold a Gold Athena Swan Award.

Why work here

Find out more about our reward and benefits package.

Find out about our equality, diversity and inclusion

Further Key Information

Please contact Emily McLean-Inglis on e.mclean-inglis@bsms.ac.uk for informal enquiries.

For full details and how to apply please click the 'Apply' button, above.

The University is committed to equality and valuing diversity, and applications are particularly welcomed from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Mathematics (STEMM) at Sussex.

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