Department of Systems Management and Strategy

Location: Greenwich
Salary: £27,924 to £33,309
Part Time Hours: 0.8FTE
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Closing Date: Tuesday 02 November 2021
Interview Date: To be confirmed
Reference: 2640-E-E

This position for a research fellow is funded through the FACET (Facilitate the Adoption of Circular Entrepreneurship in the Tourism and leisure sector) is funded by EU Interreg 2Seas (ERDF) and runs from 1/1/ 2020 to 31/03/2023. FACET aims at increasing the adoption of circular solutions in the tourism sector by supporting entrepreneurs in shifting from linear to circular. For more detailed project information, visit https://www.interreg2seas.eu/en/FACET ; https://www.gre.ac.uk/research/activity/faculty-of-business/facet-facilitate-the-adoption-of-circular-entrepreneurship-in-the-tourism-and-leisure-sector ; https://www.projectenportfolio.nl/wiki/index.php/PR_00319?project=FACET 

You will join an international research project group with an extensive experience in entrepreneurship, sustainable transitions, green supply chain, and circular economy. You have an opportunity to gain international research experience by working on an EU Interreg project helping SMEs and tourism entrepreneurs to create significant social and environmental impacts.

You will contribute to project management, circular economy related policy analysis, research field work, including survey, focus group and interviews with entrepreneurs, research data management, data analysis. You would need to have, inter alia, good skills in project management, communication, interacting and interviewing skills with businesses, relevant basic research skills, and report writing. This post also requires some travelling in the UK, the Netherlands, France and Belgium. An additional foreign language skill, particularly Dutch, French and/or Flemish would be an added advantage.

The appointment is for a Research Fellow 1. Please demonstrate your achievements against the relevant criteria in the accompanying person specifications which will be used to make an appointment at an appropriate level.

This post is for a fixed term and fractional (0.8 FTE) until 31/03/2023. For any queries, please contact the project leader, Dr Jin H. Chan, cj21@gre.ac.uk 

Should you have any queries please contact the HR Recruitment Team on HR-Recruitment@gre.ac.uk