Ref Number
B04-07543
Professional Expertise
Research and Research Support
Department
UCL BEAMS (B04)
Location
London
Working Pattern
Full time
Salary
£54,931-£64,644
Contract Type
Fixed-term
Working Type
Hybrid
Available for Secondment
Yes
Closing Date
09-Jul-2026
The Bartlett, UCL’s Faculty of the Built Environment
We are The Bartlett, UCL’s Faculty of the Built Environment. Individually, our departments lead their fields. In partnership, they develop new responses to pressing world issues. As a whole, they represent a world-leading, multidisciplinary faculty, united by the radical spirit of UCL. Our vision is of a world where everything that’s built aims to add to the well-being of people and the environment.
The Research and Impact Team is a team of five professional services colleagues, led by the Head of R&I. As part of the Bartlett faculty office, it supports, develops, and sustains the vibrancy of the Bartlett’s research and impact environments. It does this by leading on strategic faculty projects, creating and deploying cross-faculty infrastructure, and developing and sharing our knowledge and expertise. R&I works in tandem with the faculty’s professional services and academic leadership, UCL’s professional services community, and colleagues across our nine departments to create the conditions for our collective research and impact environments to be equitable, rigorous, connected, and dynamic.
Through our services and principles of transparency, equity, accuracy, and reflection, R&I develops and sustains research and impact environments that inspire our colleagues and empowers them to create important and impactful research and partnerships.
This role is only available for internal secondment.
The post holder will provide high level strategic and operational leadership for the research environments of The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment. The post-holder will lead and project manage key aspects of R&I’s cross-faculty support infrastructure and strategic projects, creating conditions for our research environments to be equitable, rigorous, connected, and dynamic.
The post-holder will grow and share their expertise in research policy and strategy, including funding trends, open access, research security, ethics, and research culture. The post-holder line manages the Research and Impact Coordinator, and works closely with the Engagement and Impact Development Manager, the Research and Impact Data Analyst, other professional services colleagues, and the academic leadership group including the Vice Dean Research.
Key aspects of the role are to:
- Lead the creation of cross-faculty research related networks and sharing opportunities, connecting colleagues from across our departments with each other and with the broader research support landscape.
- Lead the establishment of research development training programmes, ensuring that the needs of our academics are met and that it draws on the expertise of our academic leaders and professional services. Liaising with Organisational Development and other training partners to create a valuable training programme.
- Lead the REF “Contribution to Knowledge and Understanding” submission to REF2029, providing consistent project management. This includes co-leading the Bartlett Output Forum with the Vice Dean Research.
We are looking for someone who has knowledge of key research policy trends, including open access, research security, ethics, and experience of planning and managing multi-stakeholder projects. You should have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to develop effective relationships with internal and external staff at all levels. You will have excellent oral and written communication and numerical skills and the ability to research, draft, critique and present reports on complex issues to a broad range of audiences.
If you wish to discuss the post informally, please contact the line-manager for this role, Dr Julie Hipperson, Head of the Research and Impact team – [email protected]
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer great benefits, some of which are 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
- Immigration 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.
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. You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/
