The role
What will you be doing?
- Be involved with investigating and managing enquiries from CDT Directors, supervisors, and postgraduate students specifically pertaining to their research.
- Assist in establishing policy, processes and guidance around the University's response to legal compliance and contractual measures as relevant to CDTs.
- Assist with training of professional services teams and research academics in the context of providing advice and awareness around research compliance and contractual requirements from CDTs, and associated risks of non-compliance.
- Provide input into wider internal communications around prevalent research security risks and in preparing material for updates to SharePoint.
- Horizon-scanning for arising risks and changes to legislation that could impact the University and, specifically, the CDTs awarded to the institution.
- Assist in developing a reporting function to showcase practice implementation for each of the 9 CDTs awarded to the University over a 4 year period with the aim of extending its reach and size in the short- and long-term.
You should apply if
- You are interested in an innovative role combining evolving regulatory compliance with strong commercial and contractual expertise
- You are interested in developing an expanding area of legal expertise critical to research work in higher education.
- You are keen to understand new legislation, assess risk, and provide confident and assertive advice to senior personnel with legal and non-legal experience
- You have an awareness of policy and guidance processes, understanding the importance of audit functions.
- You have strong problem-solving capability, able to deal with a concurrent workload of different issues with shifting priorities.
- You have experience of providing supervision to junior staff members, and can assist in mentoring them through legal work experience and education.
- You have positive interpersonal skills to enable engagement with key stakeholders within the University.
- You are solutions-focussed, with a proactive and innovative approach to dealing with the challenges of working in a large, research-intensive University.
- Whilst experience in a regulatory/commercial environment is desirable, it is not essential. Relevant and detailed training will be provided.
Additional information
Contract type: Open ended with fixed funding until 20/09/2032
Work pattern: Full time
Grade: I
Salary: £39,906 - £44,746 per annum
School/Unit: Research Compliance
This advert will close at 23:59 UK time on: Wednesday 14th October
For informal queries please contact: Chaitali Desai (Head of Research Compliance) on chaitali.desai@bristol.ac.uk or Rajive Sharma (Senior Research Contracts Manager) on rajive.sharma@bristol.ac.uk
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