Project Administration Coordinator

The department is seeking a project administrator to support the delivery of our Contextual Safeguarding research programme. The programme is delivered by a team of eight researchers, under the leadership of Professor Carlene Firmin, and features a range of projects that research, and aim to improve, how services respond when young people are at risk of harm in contexts beyond their family homes. The programme is having a significant impact on policy and practice development, and the research team require support from a project administrator on tasks that are central to ongoing delivery and dissemination of their work.

This role is required to support the research team with: updating the programme website; development and distribution of the monthly programme newsletter; travel and accommodation bookings for fieldwork and dissemination events; managing the general Contextual Safeguarding email address; liaising with finance department regarding payment of invoices, coordinating event and training requests made to the team; and supporting the programme PI with some diary management tasks where required.

This is a fixed term externally funded position, working 14 hours per week (0.4fte). The funding is time limited for a duration of 24 months. This role can be delivered in a hybrid fashion, with working from home available. The successful candidate will be expected to work between the hours of 8.30-17:30, and one of these days being a Tuesday, as key team meetings take place on this day. The remaining working pattern can be agreed upon appointment.

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