Project Coordinator (Part Time, Fixed Term)

The School of the Arts and Humanities is looking for an experienced co-ordinator to support a new project focusing on Approaching Research Culture in the Arts and Humanities. This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled individual to collaborate on a new, exciting project.

The successful candidate will possess broad ranging experience; they will be a self-starter who enjoys variety. They will need to be adaptable, proactive and resourceful in communicating with colleagues across the University and beyond, and in developing materials and processes to support the project.

This is a brand-new opportunity to support an initiative from inception, helping to drive development. Based in the School of Arts and Humanities and led by an academic Convenor, as Project Co-ordinator for Approaching Research Culture in the Arts and Humanities, you will be the main administrative contact for all elements of the initiative, working across a broad range of tasks and stakeholders.

Funded for 20 months by the University of Cambridge Enhancing Research Culture Fund, the project aims to gain a detailed, nuanced understanding of what research culture from an Arts and Humanities perspective looks like. It will explore priorities and opportunities, as well as similarities and differences to STEM-led approaches. 

The project aims to capture existing research culture initiatives and practices through a mixed-method approach (survey, focus groups, one-to-one meetings, desktop research) across the arts and humanities in the Collegiate University, and also examine wider cognate initiatives across the UK HEI sector. 

The overall objective of the project is to collate, interpret and present a detailed overview (or 'compendium') of arts and humanities research culture from a Cambridge perspective, capitalising on internal/external connected initiatives, proposing key priorities for Cambridge to feed into both University and national dialogue. A part of this will involve exploring and embedding flexible monitoring and evaluation processes attuned to arts and humanities research culture initiatives so activity can be tracked over time, including after the project itself.

This role is part time (0.4 FTE), working 14.6 hours per week.

Informal enquiries about the role are welcomed and should be directed to Dr Andrea Salter, AHSS Research Strategy Manager on acs87@cam.ac.uk.

For questions for the application process, please contact the School's HR Team on sahhr@admin.cam.ac.uk.

The closing date for applications is midnight on Monday 31 March 2025. Interviews are planned for the week commencing 7 April 2025, subject to change

To apply online for this vacancy and to view further information about the role, please click the 'Apply' button above.

Please quote reference GA45245 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

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