Multidisciplinary Impact Co-ordinator Full Time

About us

UCL is a multi-disciplinary university with a population of over 16,000 staff and 50,000 students from 150 different countries. Degree programmes are provided in Arts and Humanities, Built Environment, Brain Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Education, Laws, Life Sciences, Mathematical & Physical Sciences, Medical Sciences, Population Health Sciences and Social and Historical Sciences. For more information, please visit http://www.ucl.ac.uk/about.

Engineering Sciences comprises ten academic Departments that undertake research and teaching across a wide range of disciplines. Our scientists and engineers take discoveries from fundamentals to practice, producing innovative technological solutions to challenging problems. It is a dynamic and growing Faculty, with a strong vision and desire to use our talents to ‘Change the world.’

Our research is formally organised within and across academic Departments. The Faculty’s work also transcends the boundaries between academic subjects and Departments, with members of the Faculty working particularly closely with several institutes and centres, both physical and virtual, within the Faculty and UCL more generally. For more information, please visit www.ucl.ac.uk/engineering

About the role

Please note: This role is a 12-month maternity cover

This is an exciting opportunity to develop UCL Faculty of Engineering Science’s engagement with industry and innovation audiences, focusing on strategic domains that span multiple Departments of the Faculty and more widely across UCL as appropriate.

The team consists of two people, where your specific area of focus will be Robotics and Automation as well as input into the following domains:

• Future propulsion, fuels, and energy
• Sustainable Aviation and Aerospace
• Future Compute

The post holder should have excellent people and organisational skills and be prepared to engage with a diverse group of partners, speaking with academics and Industry. They should be approachable, familiar with technology, communications tools, and event organisation.

Ideally, candidates will have a special interest in one of the priority domains and/or emerging technologies.

About you

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate the following criteria:

• Either experience of working in and/or with Higher Education or research organisations or experience in industry and/or government with a focus on science, engineering, or technology.

• Experience of creating a communication plan and assets, including website content, to deliver strategic objectives.

• Excellent interpersonal and networking skills with the ability to relate to a wide variety of people from industry, government, academia, research funders and professional staff to students.

• Ability to research and extrapolate information using the internet and databases.

• Able to organise seminars, workshops and talk to technical audiences.

• Ability to work collaboratively as a team and independently recognising when advice / input needs to be sought.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details. Please also read the attached Candidate Guidance document.

All applications must include a supporting statement, telling us, using examples, how you meet the essential criteria listed in the job description. Applications without a supporting statement will be rejected.

This appointment is subject to UCL Terms and Conditions of Service for Research and Professional Services Staff. Please visit www.ucl.ac.uk/human-resources/conditions-service-research-teaching-and-professional-services-staff for more information.

If you have any queries about the role or application process, have any technical issues, or need reasonable adjustments or a more accessible format to apply for this job online, please contact the staffing team at faceng.facultyhr@ucl.ac.uk.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer great benefits some of which are listed below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)

• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme

• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)

• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan

• On-Site nursery

• On-site gym

• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay

• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service

• Discounted medical insurance

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian, and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.