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£51,974 - £61,021 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance

United Kingdom, London

The Senior Engagement Communications Manager develops and delivers effective communications that connect and showcases the work of International, Engagement & Service (IES) both within and beyond the university, driving participation and audiences, and reinforcing King's ambitions to make the world a better place.

IES is a new Directorate at King’s that brings together the expertise of teams engaging with communities and partners locally, national and globally. The Directorate provides strategic leadership for the university’s engagement at home and abroad, while providing a home for a portfolio of innovative programmes that generate and measure impact and serve the communities we work with and for. IES is home to some of King’s most innovative and impact-driven programming including  Sanctuary, the  Afe Babalola Centre for Transnational Education,  King’s Volunteering,  One King’s Impact, among others, as well as our civic and place-based engagement in  London, and across the world.

About the Role

The Senior Engagement Communications Manager within the International, Engagement & Service (IES) Directorate requires a balance of skills across internal and external communications, engagement, and digital.

 

The post holder will be adept at identifying, researching, and developing proactive communications campaigns and compelling news stories, features and content. They will work with colleagues across IES teams, central and faculty-based communications teams and external collaborators to tell those stories through digital, social and external media, impactful events, compelling internal and external campaigns, launches and other activities to inspire and engage our communities.

 

This is a full-time post (35 hours per week) and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

This is currently a hybrid working role where the role holder will spend part of their working week on campus and part of the week working remotely. Flexible working requests/patterns are welcomed.

 

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

 

Essential criteria


	First degree and professional communications qualification, or demonstrable equivalent experience
	Significant experience of communications and marketing at a responsible level
	Ability to understand and translate complex themes and messages for internal and external audiences, alongside expertise in how to create and communicate those messages in credible and impactful ways.
	Excellent creative writing, ability to adapt to multiple styles and uses, editing and proofing skills with an eye for detail
	Advanced digital skills including experience in managing social media channels and working with website/newsletter/contact databases, CMS and CRM systems, video and podcasting technology
	Demonstrates strong leadership and interpersonal skills, facilitation, and coaching skills to build relationships across organizational boundaries and to positively influence and drive the right outcomes
	Experience of measuring reach/impact of communications and of using the data to underpin communication and engagement activity


Desirable criteria


	Experience of working in higher education.
	Experience of working cross-organisationally in a complex environment with competing priorities


Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further Information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.
We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’  pages.

Interviews are due to be held on w/c 14th October.

We are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.


King's College London

United Kingdom, Newcastle upon Tyne

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Accounting and Financial Management Department at Northumbria University is seeking to appoint an outstanding candidate to join its Accounting Subject as an Associate Professor of Accounting. The role-holder will be expected to demonstrate continuing academic attainment and achievement and provide academic leadership (of their subject and associated colleagues), through contribution to their discipline and to the communal life and work of their Faculty and the wider University. This will involve undertaking a specific management portfolio within the Department and, more generally, the Faculty. Beyond the discipline and University, the successful candidate will work to bring significant change within practice, profession and/or community at regional, national and international level. In addition, the successful candidate will contribute to delivering the Faculty’s strategic priorities, which include the integration of high quality research, excellent teaching, and the provision and inclusiveness of leadership on a range of diverse portfolios within an academic context.

The role holder will lead and contribute to research activities, increasing the level of inclusiveness in the subject and the department and delivering appropriate research outputs, income generation and impact as agreed by the department's Research leadership team.  We are interested in hearing from candidates from all areas of accounting, particularly from those who can demonstrate expertise in financial accounting, auditing, taxation and management accounting; an outstanding profile and a robust research agenda and evidence of previous research funding success are also essential. In addition, the role-holder will assist the Head of Department and the Faculty Pro Vice-Chancellor to maintain, enhance and improve the University’s national and international reputation in their academic field.

If you would like to discuss this position in more details please contact Professor Ignazio Cabras, Head of Department (ignazio.cabras@northumbria.ac.uk) and Professor Karim Sorour (karim.sorour@northumbria.ac.uk)

Further information is available in the Associate Professor person specification.

We welcome applications from the UK and across the world. Visit our web pages for details about Relocation Assistance.

This opportunity is open to applications from internal candidates who do not hold a current substantive academic role at Northumbria. Current academic colleagues with a substantive role are encouraged to consider options to progress via the Academic Development Review process.

To apply for this vacancy please click 'Apply Now'.  Your application should include a covering letter and a CV.  Please ensure your CV includes research / education statements, and grants and publications list highlighting your highest quality research outputs up to a maximum of four.  For your most recent grants please include the grant title, funder reference, funder, amount, and your role.  In addition, you are asked to provide copies of the top two research outputs (Journal / book chapter / practice-based portfolio).


Northumbria University, Newcastle

United Kingdom, Southampton

The University’s IT Service, iSolutions, are looking for an experienced Business Analyst with a passion for designing technical solutions which will help deliver projects that change how the University uses IT to work. This is an exciting opportunity to join a busy and dynamic team of Business Analysis professionals who have earned an excellent reputation throughout the University.

We deliver a full range of IT services to all staff and students and this role will join our IT Portfolio community. We run a wide range of projects and programmes to improve our current services and transform the staff and student experience to a diverse community of 23,000+ students and over 5,500 University staff.

The role is based at 1 Guildhall Square, central Southampton, but will involve travel to other sites.

 What you’ll do


	Apply your extensive business and system analysis experience and knowledge as well as your advanced interpersonal skills to identify business needs, operational efficiencies, and future technical solutions.
	Accurately document current and potential working practices through the eliciting, analysing, validating, and mapping of systems and processes in a way that clearly identifies requirements, acceptance criteria and business benefits.
	Provide support and training to the technical and business teams for the new systems and processes.
	Create user stories, test scenario, process flow diagrams and prototypes based on the proposed features.
	Provide support to the technical team for creation and implementation of the interface migration plan.
	Recommend and support implementation of the non-functional requirements and provide post implementation troubleshooting support.


 What you’ll bring


	Extensive Business Analysis experience, helping deliver large scale change projects and programmes.
	An excellent understanding of creating and writing functional and technical specifications for systems.
	The ability to communicate and collaborate with architects, developers, and business stakeholders.
	A willingness to review current process and practices and identify where there is the opportunity to improve them.


 Working at UoS

Our Strategic Plan: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) builds on the ambition articulated in the University Strategy: “It matters that we act continually to ensure the University is supportive and inclusive of everyone”.

Our EDI mission is to create an inclusive university community, and our vision is that this is a community where, as an individual student or member of staff:


	You feel welcomed for who you are, and this is a place where you feel that you can influence the way we do things now and in the future
	You feel included and supported to reach your true potential
	You value the diversity of the wider community and play your part in supporting the mission of inclusivity.


As part of our commitment to your well-being we offer a pension scheme and generous holidays. Staff also have access to our state-of-the-art on-campus sports, arts facilities and access to a number of university employee-discount schemes.

Work-life balance is important to us, and this is reflected in our generous maternity policy and childcare facilities; employees are also able to participate in the Childcare Voucher Scheme. Our staff may wish to have working patterns that fit in with their caring responsibilities, so we invite requests to undertake this role on a part-time or a flexible working basis. We also welcome applicants who have had career breaks for reasons including maternity, paternity or adoption leave, disability, or illness.


University of Southampton

Austria, Vienna Danubepier Hov

50 Faculty of Life Sciences
Startdate: 01.11.2024 | Working hours: 20 | Collective bargaining agreement: §48 VwGr. B1 lit. b (postdoc)
Limited until: 31.10.2030
Reference no.: 3024

The position is limited to a total of 6 years.

Do you have a strong interest in Systems Biology and the relevance of the Gut Microbiome in Health and Disease? Then come join our team as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Manuela Schmidt, Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Vienna, Austria. Our translational research focuses on the molecular underpinnings of painful pathologies in vertebrates and on the dynamics of gut microbiota function in the context of pain.

Your personal sphere of play:

Your future workplace is situated at the Faculty of Life Sciences at the Universitätszentrum Althanstraße (UZA II) where research groups work in the pharmaceutical sciences, nutritional sciences and biology. Research in our workgroup “Systems Biology of Pain” is driven by our motivation to decipher the dynamics of protein networks and host-microbiome interactions underlying vertebrate pain. Methodologically, we combine molecular biology, biochemistry, pharmacology, preclinical mouse models and latest (meta)proteomics techniques. This multidisciplinary approach has enabled us to investigate spatiotemporal proteome dynamics relevant for pain both in mice and humans. Our research lives from our fruitful collaborations with basic researchers, bioinformaticians and clinicians alike facilitating forward and reverse translation of our research results. Importantly, our research highly benefits from innovative methodological expertise and collaboration with the newly established University Vienna – Bruker Center of Excellence for Metaproteomics.

The position holder will work on pain-related dynamics of the proteome and the metaproteome in preclinical mouse models and in clinical projects. Candidates need expert knowledge in biochemistry and proteomics including hands-on expertise in quantitative mass spectrometry and respective data analysis. Candidates having expertise in metaproteomics, pain research or preclinical disease models will be given preference. Above all, we seek a skilled and dedicated person, who enjoys science and shares our passion for research!

Your future tasks:


	Plan and execute in vitro and in vivo experiments on the gut microbiome in mice.
	Investigate the dynamics of host-microbiome interactions in mice and humans.
	Plan and perform (meta)proteomics experiments using quantitative mass spectrometry.
	Analyze (meta)proteomics data.
	Manage and develop research projects and publish acquired results.
	Manage collaborative projects within our research group and with our collaboration partners.
	Teach Bsc and Msc students of pharmacy in lectures and practical courses.
	Supervise research projects of Msc and PhD students.


This is part of your personality:


	Open, collaborative and curious personality
	Pro-active approach and highly motivated and dedicated attitude
	High social and collaborative skills.
	Outstanding ability to work in a team.
	Outstanding ability to work independently and in a self-driven manner.
	Prominent management skills.
	Advanced communication skills, proven ability to communicate with specialists from other fields.
	Highly organized style of work and outstanding ability to document procedures and experiments in detail and in accordance to legal requirements.
	High interest for teaching the next generation of pharmacy students and scientists.


Education and training


	Completed doctoral/PhD studies in medicine, biology, pharmacy or related fields.
	High competence and documented experience in biochemistry. Candidates having experience in pain research or preclinical disease models will be given preference.
	Strong hands-on expertise in quantitative mass spectrometry and respective data analysis using R or Python. Candidates having experience in metaproteomics will be given preference.
	Fluent in English (in speech and writing)


What we offer:

Work-life balance: Our employees enjoy flexible working hours.

Inspiring working atmosphere: You are a part of an international academic team in a healthy and fair working environment.

Good public transport connections: Your workplace in the center of beautiful Vienna is easily accessible by public transport.

Internal further training & Coaching: Opportunity to deepen your skills on an ongoing basis. There are over 600 courses to choose from – free of charge.

Fair salary: The basic salary of EUR 2,376,15 (14 times a year).

Equal opportunities for all: We look forward to diverse personalities the team!

It is that easy to apply:


	With your scientific curriculum vitae, which highlights your exceptional fit to this position.
	With your letter of intent, clearly outlining your motivation for this position
	With your summary of research interests (max. 1 p.)
	With your list of publications
	Doctoral Degree 
	With contact details of persons, who could provide referece letters
	Via our  job portal/ Apply now -  button


If you have any questions, please contact:

Manuela Schmidt

manuela_schmidt@univie.ac.at

We look forward to new personalities in our team!  The University of Vienna has an anti-discriminatory employment policy and attaches great importance to equal opportunities, the advancement of women and diversity. We lay special emphasis on increasing the number of women in senior and in academic positions among the academic and general university staff and therefore expressly encourage qualified women to apply. Given equal qualifications, preference will be given to female candidates.

University of Vienna. Space for personalities. Since 1365.

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Application deadline: 09/27/2024

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University of Vienna

Finland

Aalto University is where science and art meet technology and business. We shape a sustainable future by making research breakthroughs in and across our disciplines, sparking the game changers of tomorrow and creating novel solutions to major global challenges. Our community is made up of 13 000 students, 400 professors and close to 4 500 other faculty and staff working on our dynamic campus in Espoo, Greater Helsinki, Finland. Diversity is part of who we are, and we actively work to ensure our community’s diversity and inclusiveness. This is why we warmly encourage qualified candidates from all backgrounds to join our community.

At the Department of Applied Physics, our pioneering research in physical sciences creates important industrial applications that hold great technological potential. Our research focuses on Materials physics, Quantum technology, Soft & living matter, and Advanced energy solutions. Topics extend from fundamental research to important applications. We educate future generations of research and development professionals, data specialists, technology experts, inventors, and scientists for industry and society.

The Department of Applied Physics is now looking for a

Postdoctoral Researcher in Optics and Photonics

We are looking for an outstanding postdoc to join the Optics and Photonics group for theoretical and experimental research on nanophotonics. The research will be focused on the development of novel approaches to design, create, and investigate photonic metasurfaces that efficiently trap light and enhance nonlinear optical phenomena. The position is fully funded by the Research Council of Finland and involves collaboration with researchers from the Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering at Aalto University, as well as international collaboration with a research team from the Netherlands.

This is an anonymous recruitment. We want to increase our diversity at Aalto University, learn to understand unconscious biases, and make objective hiring decisions. Please read more about the recruitment process in the end of this ad.

Your role and goals

In this position, you will act as a researcher working on design and characterization of nonlinear metasurfaces supporting resonant optical modes known as photonic bound states in the continuum. The design will be based on numerical modelling methods. The samples will be fabricated using the cleanroom facilities of Aalto University and investigated by nonlinear optical methods using the equipment of the Optics and Photonics group.

As a member of the group, you will:


	use your knowledge and experience to achieve scientific breakthroughs in research on nonlinear metasurfaces and bound states in the continuum,
	advance the field by overcoming existing challenges and developing new scientific ideas,
	support research activities of other group members,
	write and publish high-impact articles,
	collaborate with other research groups, including participation in international research visits.


​Your experience and ambitions

Minimal requirements for the candidate are:


	doctoral degree in physics, photonics, materials science, or another relevant field,
	excellent scientific writing skills evidenced by publications in peer-reviewed journals,
	high level of understanding of principles of optics and photonics, especially related to nonlinear optics at the nanoscale and optical properties of periodic structures,
	familiarity with the relevant theoretical and experimental methods, such as numerical simulations and optical microscopy.
	excellent command of English; Finnish language is not required.


​Preference will be given to candidates with hands-on experience in conducting nonlinear optical experiments using ultrashort laser pulses and previous contributions to research on nonlinear metasurfaces and photonic bound states in the continuum.

What we offer

Aalto University follows the salary system of Finnish universities. The salary of a postdoc is in the range 4020 € - 4420 €/month (gross), depending on experience. The contract will be made initially for one year, with a possibility of extension. We expect the selected candidate to start the work in January 2025 or soon after. The annual workload of research and teaching staff at Aalto University is currently 1612 hours. The contract includes Aalto University occupational healthcare.

Our vast array of professional development opportunities means you will grow and learn, having the chance to participate actively in staff trainings and development projects based on your interests and needs. There is great freedom in your role, and we have a flexible modern working culture. We value work-life balance and well-being in all aspects of life.

We work in a hybrid way, and the primary workplace is Otaniemi, Espoo. The Otaniemi campus is a thriving and connected community of 100 nationalities, 13,000 students and 4,500 employees. Life at the campus is vibrant and filled with amazing architecture, calming nature, and a variety of cafes, restaurants, services, and good connections.

Join us!

To apply for the position, please submit your application through our online recruitment system by using the link on Aalto University’s web page ("Apply Now”). The deadline for applications is October 30, 2024. Please submit your application including the attachments mentioned below as a single PDF document in English:


	CV,
	PhD diploma,
	list of publications,
	contact details of at least three referees.


​In this anonymous recruitment, we make the first evaluation of the candidates anonymously; we are only interested to know your merits that make you a great fit for this role. This means, we will not see your personal details (such as name, gender, nationality, and age in the attachments) and we invite candidates for the interviews only based on their background, competences, and motivation seen in the answers to the online questionnaire.

Please fill out the application form with your full work experience and education background. In the open questions, focus on your skills, competences, and motivation towards the position at Aalto. In the application form, we ask personal details, such as name, age, nationality and gender and we also ask you to upload the following documents as a single PDF file: CV, PhD diploma, list of publications, and contact details of at least three referees. This personal information and documents are not visible for the recruiters in the first screening and will not be used for evaluation. The identity will be revealed when we invite the candidates to the interviews. When the identity is revealed, the attachments become visible for the recruiters.

If you are already an Aalto employee, please apply via internal Workday system (Internal Jobs) by using your existing Workday user account. Please make sure you include your work history and education, since internal candidates are also under anonymous screening to ensure equal treatment. Aalto University’s students and visitors should apply as external candidates with personal (not Aalto) email.

For additional information, kindly contact the HR Advisor Hanna Multisilta (hanna.multisilta@aalto.fi), who will forward your questions to the Principal Investigator. Aalto University reserves the right for justified reasons to leave the position open, extend the application period, reopen the application process, and consider candidates who have not submitted applications during the application period.

Want to know more about us and your future colleagues? You can watch these videos: Aalto University – Towards a better world, Aalto People , and Shaping a Sustainable Future. Read more about working at Aalto: Careers at Aalto | Aalto University

Check out our new virtual campus experience: Aalto University – virtual campus tour

 About Finland

Finland is a great place for living with or without family – it is a safe, politically stable, and well-organized Nordic society. Finland is consistently ranked high in quality of life and was just listed again as the happiest country in the world:  https://worldhappiness.report/news/its-a-three-peat-finland-keeps-top-spot-as-happiest-country-in-world/. For more information about living in Finland: Living in Finland | Aalto University and For international staff | Aalto University

More about Aalto University:

Aalto.fi
youtube.com/user/aaltouniversity
linkedin.com/school/aalto-university/
www.facebook.com/aaltouniversity
instagram.com/aaltouniversity
twitter.com/aaltouniversity


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