Outreach Officer

Manchester

£27,924 - £32,344 per annum (depending on experience)

Fixed term - 14 months

Ref: SAE-018121

The Henry Royce Institute (Royce), an EPSRC-funded national institute, supports UK advanced materials research and innovation. With its Hub at The University of Manchester, the Institute has spokes at nine Partner and Associate organisations: The Universities of Sheffield, Leeds, Liverpool, Cambridge, Cranfield, Oxford and Imperial College London, as well as at the UK Atomic Energy Authority and National Nuclear Laboratory. Royce, driven by a vision of ‘advanced materials for a sustainable society’, supports the UK in growing its world-leading research and innovation through:

• Enabling national materials research, collaboration, foresighting and strategy
• Providing access to world-leading facilities and research expertise
• Catalysing industrial collaboration and accelerating translation
• Fostering materials science skills development, innovation training and outreach

Royce is seeking an Outreach Officer to implement the delivery of the Institute’s strategic plan for outreach and engagement. The Outreach Officer will be responsible for delivering outreach activities on behalf of Royce at a national level, including attendance at public engagement events, science festivals and through direct to school programmes. Youwill work with the Discover Materials’ National Outreach Officer to develop new outreach activities, as well as with technical staff and researchers across Royce to help share the scientific work they are engaged in.

You will be an enthusiastic and motivated individual with an interest in sharing their own, and others’, experience and knowledge of the material science discipline. You will be able to converse and engage with multiple stakeholders, ranging from school children, the general public, to material science researchers across academia and in industry. Experience of designing and delivering public engagement or scientific outreach activities within a HEI or research environment is essential, as is knowledge of equality, diversity and inclusion, including of widening participation, in relation to outreach.

Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here

Blended working arrangements may be considered.

Enquiries:

• Vacancy, shortlisting and interviews: Tom Hancocks, Training and Skills Manager at thomas.hancocks@manchester.ac.uk
• General enquiries: People-od.operations@manchester.ac.uk
• Technical support: https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home

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Closing date: 27 January 2022.

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status.  All appointments are made on merit.