Research Officer

This is an exciting role at Meningitis Research Foundation (MRF) reporting directly to the Head of Research, with responsibility for maintaining the charity’s international research grants programme, including co-ordinating processes to support the funding of new research and ensuring that meningitis research findings are appropriately disseminated.

The role will form part of the Research Evidence and Policy (REP) Team along with the Head of Research, Head of Evidence and Policy and Data Visualisation and Intelligence Manager. There will be frequent cross team working with the Communications, Advocacy and Support Team.

In addition to overseeing the research grants programme, the successful candidate will work with the Head of Research to support the organisation and delivery of MRF’s programme of conferences, symposia and virtual events; and will support the REP team to produce and maintain accurate information on meningitis and septicaemia.

If you are looking to develop your career in the medical/research sector, have a keen interest interest in developing a comprehensive understanding of meningitis and septicaemia, and are equipped with strong organisational and administrative skills, this could be the new challenge you have been waiting for.

Job description: Research Officer

Context

Science Education Events Manager    

Circa £45k   

You’re enthusiastic, creative, understand the secondary school curriculum and have a desire to use your degree to inspire future generations, in all things science.   

You also have an interest in commercial management and want to use your business acumen within an ambitious organisation that’s looking to use that commercial experience to expand the current business model, to lead and inspire the team and direct the growth of the business. A truly exciting opportunity to grow with a successful organisation.  

 You want to use your love of academia, science and all its applications to help young people. And to truly make a difference, no matter how cliché that might sound.   

You could be doing that with one of the UK’s leading educational live events companies who create and run stimulating subject based study days and conferences for up to 40,000 A level, GCSE and KS3 students annually.  

So, how about being put into the position where you’ll be researching the key trends and future topics currently exciting scientists? Then, organising, running, and marketing large public engagement events each year to reflect these topics, recruiting the leading academically gifted and entertaining education communicators to motivate and inspire students.         

You’ll get a real buzz out of talent-spotting sci comms speakers and communicators, building and nurturing your relationships with them. People at the top of their game, recognised and hugely respected, some of them household names - now or destined to be in the future. Whilst science will be your focus, you can expect in your wider role, that you will need an appreciation and understanding of other subjects across the GCSE and A-Level curriculum.   

 You’ll need to enjoy networking because you’ll also be building relationships with teachers around the country, to get them engaged, driving the marketing communication plan to maximise the number of students attending the events.   

Let’s be clear. These events are not seminars or lectures, they are interactive, inspiring, and exhilarating days held in prestigious venues in London and around the UK where hundreds of excited students and their teachers descend on a venue to learn and be energised. Days that leave teachers and students re-charged, stimulated, and motivated to consider the future opportunities that the pursuit of their chosen subject offers.   

Flexibility and energy is the key. You’ll need to be IT literate, working from home, managing your own time but in regular contact with the team, attending monthly face to face team meetings in London and at the event venues in London, the Midlands and Manchester.  

This is a full-time post which you’ll undertake with the support of an organisation which has long-established relationships that you will continue, whilst building new ones.   

You can expect the usual 28 days annual leave including bank holidays and a company pension scheme.  

This is a small, well-established business that pre Covid has been growing. And we continue to look at ways to ensure growth for the future with an exciting programme of 2022 events already planned.   

Work with some of the leading academics and scientists in the country and inspire the next generation.   

Submit your CV and covering letter detailing how you could fulfil this unique and challenging role to admin@thetrainingpartnership.org.uk. Closing date 23/05/2022. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we are in receipt of sufficient applications, so early application is encouraged.

The Royal Institution are looking for a Holiday Workshops Assistant for our Family Programmes Team for a 2-month fixed term contract (£26k pa equivalent) to gain experience of the day-to-day oversight of the Ri’s successful summer holiday workshops programme. This vacancy is from 27 June – 2 September 2022 with some flexibility.

The successful applicant will:

• Be excited about bringing STEM to life for young people.
• Have some experience with event management & informal learning programmes.
• Be able to multi task and quickly resolve issues as and when they arise.

For more information about this role, timeframes and how to apply, please see our website; https://www.rigb.org/holiday-workshops-assistant

The closing date for receipt of applications is 9am Thursday 28 April 2022.

Interviews are planned for 5 & 6 May.

This role is based in Central London; applicants will be expected to base themselves within or near to London for the period of the placement.

If you have any queries or need any further information about the Ri or these opportunities, please contact us at recruitment@ri.ac.uk

We are seeking 4 people with experience of influencing a wide range of stakeholders to join the Learning and Skills team at the Institute of Physics on a permanent basis.

The Role

These exciting roles are integral to the IOP’s objectives of building influential relationships and partnerships in England with stakeholders across society, including the physics community, business and industry, local and regional policy makers, third sector charities, community groups, education and training providers.

The successful candidates will join an expanding team that is bolstering the IOP’s influencing and engagement capability, enabling the organisation to leverage new partnerships and deliver impact against its strategic aspirations.

The Influencing and Engagement Managers will work in a flexible and agile manner to support the successful delivery of the IOP’s strategy, Unlocking the Future, to drive the change required to achieve our ambitious aims on increasing diversity and inclusion, improving skills, unlocking capabilities and public dialogue, and improving access to high quality physics teaching. This will be achieved by raising the profile of the IOP and physics itself to diverse audiences across the North, Central and South areas of England, to engage with and influence key organisations and individuals. Within their target area (North, Central or South) specific activities will be delivered in line with the identified strategic need and desired impact. This will involve maintaining existing relationships and creating new ones to amplify the work of colleagues, members, and external partners, to drive measurable change for our campaigns, programmes, public dialogue and engagement work.

Employment Locations Available (Remote)

· 1 FTE to cover the North, including the North-west and North-east

· 2 FTE to cover the Central region from Sheffield down to Chelmsford

· 1 FTE to cover the South which includes London, Kent and the South-west

The Person

You will have outstanding relationship and stakeholder management skills and demonstrable experience of influencing external and internal stakeholders with often differing needs, interests, and motivations. You will have the ability to identify opportunities, make connections and facilitate collaboration between stakeholders with areas of mutual interest that may not appear immediately obvious.

An understanding of how to influence stakeholders’ policies and strategies in contexts related to any of the challenges and aspirations set out in our strategy would be particularly welcome. As would specialist skills in one of the following: campaigning, business engagement and community engagement. Specialist knowledge of one of the following: the school system, the FE system, the skills agenda, higher education or local government would also be particularly advantageous in this role.

Future of Work

The Institute of Physics is an equal opportunities employer and our people are at the heart of our approach to delivery. Following the impact of COVID-19, we have developed a new, innovative and exciting trust-based model of flexible working. This empowers our staff to choose both individually and as a team how, when and where they work to deliver the goals of the organisation, acknowledging that there will be occasions where in-person meetings, collaborations and events will help generate greater impact.

The Future of Work initiative is based on the principles of collaboration, trust, flexibility and agility. You will be allocated a ‘base’ office which can also be a chosen place of work.

Application

Alongside your CV, please ensure you include a cover letter stating how you meet the person specification.

Why work with us?

The Institute of Physics (IOP) is the professional body and learned society for physics in the UK and Ireland, we seek to raise public awareness and understanding of physics and support the development of a diverse and inclusive physics community. As a charity, we’re here to ensure that physics delivers on its exceptional potential to benefit society.

We have an ambitious new corporate strategy and you’ll play a part in helping us to deliver it. There’s never been a more exciting time to join the IOP - watch our new film to find out more about our work.

As well as a competitive salary and professional development opportunities, we offer employees a comprehensive benefits package including an excellent pension scheme, private medical insurance and generous annual leave. We also offer a range of other benefits including childcare vouchers, gym membership and interest free season ticket loans.

Employment Type: Full time

Employment Basis: Permanent

Closing date for applications: Tuesday 19 April 2022

Interviews to be held: 26 and 27 April and 4 May 2022 Via Teams

Closing Date Thursday 28th April

Job Title: Hilltop Live Presenter       

Location: RHS Garden Wisley         

Salary: Up to £12 per hour

Hours: Casual hours, three – six hour shifts on Saturday and/or Sunday, a minimum of two days per month   

Contract type: Casual

Positions available: 3

At Hilltop: The Home Gardening of Gardening Science at RHS Wisley, we are looking for a Hilltop Live Presenter to support with our exciting Hilltop Live programme of talks, demonstrations and handling sessions.

You will be responsible for facilitating and presenting short science-led sessions to our weekend visitors, with the aim of educating them in horticultural science in a fun and exciting way.

With the support of our Visitor Engagement Officer and RHS scientists, you will be the face of Hilltop Live at weekends, welcoming visitors of all ages to our brand new attraction at Wisley. You will be confident and have experience in speaking to the public and presenting or demonstrating in front of groups of people.

Successful applicants will have an understanding of horticultural science, and preferably some experience in science communication.

Full training will be provided, and as this is a casual role, there is flexibility on how many days you choose to work. If you are invited to interview, please note you will be required to create and present a horticultural science-based session to us.

About the Royal Horticultural Society

To work for the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is to join a thriving charity, whose mission is to inspire everyone to grow. Everything we do is built on the transformational power of gardening – and the benefits it brings to people, places and our planet.

Known globally for our inspirational Shows and five spectacular Gardens, our work extends to leading ground-breaking climate research, running community outreach programmes, and setting the standards in horticultural education. With the recent opening of RHS Garden Bridgewater and Hilltop, the world’s first dedicated Centre for Gardening Science, at RHS Garden Wisley, there has never been a more exciting time to be part of our journey to make the UK a greener, and more beautiful place.

And we couldn’t do this without our people. We’re proud of the knowledge, enthusiasm and ideas that each one of our team members brings. From working across our social media channels, to volunteering in the Gardens, from serving customers in our Garden Centres to running national marketing campaigns, we believe that every member of the RHS team should have the opportunity to make a difference.

The RHS provides a number of great benefits for employees including:

• Free parking for staff working at one of the five gardens
• Free access to all RHS Gardens and Flower Shows
• 20% discount on all RHS Retail
• Discounted food and drink from the catering outlets at the gardens
• Employee discounts at high street retailer and cash back scheme
• 25 days’ holiday (increasing to 28 and 30 with service)
• Bike to work scheme
• Pension with employers’ contribution, which increases with length of service
• Employee Assistance Programme for staff and immediate family
• Monthly Garden magazine and access to gardening advice
• Sponsorship for external studies

Safeguarding and Inclusion

The RHS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and expects all personnel to share in this commitment.  We are an inclusive employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

Apply via our website by Thursday 28th April. 

Full details of the role and how to apply can be found at http://www.sciencemadesimple.co.uk/vacancies

Outreach & Public Engagement Officer, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany

We are looking for an Outreach & Public Engagement Officer to join our team at the European Learning Laboratory for the Life Sciences (ELLS) at EMBL. The individual will join an enthusiastic team and develop and implement innovative outreach and public engagement activities for young leaners and the public to support EMBL’s scientific vision, with special focus in the area of planetary biology. The ideal candidate will have a background in life sciences, science communication or education and at least 3 years’ experience in a public engagement-related role. The position is based at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany.

Please find the full job advert here: https://www.embl.org/jobs/position/HD02152

Closing date: 5 May 2022

Closing date 24th April 2022

Head of Communication and Engagement

Full time, permanent contract

Salary: £52,877 - £75,678 plus London allowances (£3,727 & £1,402) per annum

London, UK

Choosing to come to work at the MRC (part of UKRI) means that you will have access to a host of benefits from a defined benefit pension scheme and 40.5 days leave per year, to access to employee shopping/travel discounts and salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme, plus the chance to put the MRC and UKRI on your CV in the future.

Are you looking for a leadership role in Communications and Engagement which underpins world-leading research by helping scientific leaders to disseminate their research and engage with the public?

The MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS) is inviting applications for the role of Head Communication and Engagement. The LMS is an Institute of the Medical Research Council (part of UKRI), based at the Hammersmith Campus of Imperial College London and enjoys close links to Imperial College, London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

About us:

The LMS is an MRC core funded Institute currently housing 35 research groups and 250 people. Our mission is to be at the forefront of ground-breaking biomedical research by:

 Exploiting our unique position to drive the translation of innovative research towards improved health and clinical outcomes

 Enhancing the public's interest, understanding and trust in science

 Training and mentoring the next generation of leading clinical and non-clinical scientists.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a major role in our continuing success, and to work alongside world leaders in enabling innovative research through successful communication and engagement strategy. We are looking for a dynamic individual with excellent experience in a scientific and communications background. The role holder will be responsible for:

 Leading the communication, public engagement and outreach programme, acting as an advocate for the LMS and science

 Developing the public communications and research dissemination strategy with

scientific leaders

 Crafting and developing a diverse programme of initiatives including competition, exhibitions and media events

 Raising external income to support outreach programmes

 Collaborating closely with external organisations, broadcasters and journalists

Please note that this position is full time on site.

For full details of this post and to complete an online application, please click apply and upload your CV, names and contacts of two references along with a covering letter stating why you are applying for this role (providing evidence against the requirements of the job as per the job description and person specification). Please quote reference number LMS 1801

Closing date: 24th April 2022

Closing date Tuesday 12 April 2022

The Royal Institution are looking for a PhD student to take on an internship with us as Science Presenter Intern in our Young Scientist Centre for a 3-month placement to gain experience of presenting to a group of young people in an engaging educational environment and to receive training in science communication . The internship is from May to July 2022 with some flexibility.

The successful intern will:

Present hands-on science workshops to young people in the LYSC.

Research and develop hands-on science experiments for Ri social media content.

Work with the YSC team to develop content for other Ri activities.

For more information about our internship programme and details on individual placements, timeframes and how to apply, please see our website; https://www.rigb.org/about-us/work-with-us

The closing date for receipt of applications has been extended to 9am Tuesday 12 April 2022

Interviews are now planned for 26 & 27 April.

Please note, the Ri offers placements for students who are enrolled on a research degree under the Doctoral Training Partnership programme funded by Research Councils including the BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC, MRC, AHRC and NERC. These opportunities are only open to PhD students who are eligible for a stipend via their DTP/University/research council in order to undertake a month professional internship. Students should check with their university that they are able to secure funding before applying. They will need to obtain the grant holder’s written permission to undertake the placement, outlining any funding arrangements, before a position can be offered.

The role is based in Central London; students will be expected to base themselves within or near to London for the period of the placement.

If you have any queries or need any further information about the Ri or these opportunities, please contact us at recruitment@ri.ac.uk

Full time Open Ended Appointment

Salary - £35,800 - £42,970 doe

Are you a proactive and creative digital comms specialist with proven social media expertise, great writing and content creation skills, and a passion for the marine environment? Want to work in an internationally-renowned organisation which is at the cutting edge of scientific research into some of the key challenges of our time?

Plymouth Marine Laboratory - one of the UK’s leading marine research institutes - is looking for a Digital Communications & Social Media Specialist to increase brand awareness and engagement with our target audiences.

As part of the Marketing and Communications team you will have responsibility for the creation and management of content and campaigns for our website, social media channels, e-newsletters and other digital channels/materials.

You’ll be working alongside world-leading experts in areas such as climate change, biodiversity and satellite observation to ensure PML’s scientific work is communicated in an exciting and engaging way. This will include designing, producing and monitoring campaigns and project communication plans, developing digital content, and also coordinating delivery with external partner organisations.

Key Deliverables

• Designing and implementing a PML social media strategy and content plan.
• Drafting and scheduling digital content including website content, social media posts, news items, images/films, and internal/external newsletters.
• Proactively engaging with PML staff and other relevant parties to obtain compelling ideas and content.
• Monitoring comments and mentions; participating in relevant online conversations and responding in a timely manner.
• Tracking, monitoring and reporting on agreed metrics and analysing social media trends to advise on ways to keep PML’s social media platforms in line with current trends.
• Coordinating the creation of campaigns and toolkits to highlight specific PML activities and programs and/or amplify specific PML events.
• Seeking out new engagement opportunities, audiences and messaging methods.
• Supporting PML events and other corporate activities to ensure the inclusion of high quality digital content.
• Supporting PML internal communications inc. presentations/seminars etc.
• Ensuring PML brand and messaging is consistent and well-reflected in all digital communications activity/content. Stewardship of key assets such as film and photography.

Skill Specification

• Understanding and experience of social media strategy, techniques and best working practice
• Proven track record of delivering creative digital and multi-media campaigns and activity
• Ability to create and implement content plans in an organised and targeted way
• Demonstrable aptitude for content creation (written, image, graphic, film)
• Ability to turn complex (scientific) information into understandable and accessible content to suit a range of audience types
• Ability to manage multiple projects/campaigns, with agreed monitoring and reporting structures in place.
• Graduate level in communications/marketing/PR/media/broadcast journalism (or related) and/or science communication desirable but not essential.
• At least three years’ experience in a related role preferred.
• Expert knowledge of social media platforms and analytics (essential)
• Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (essential)
• Google analytics
• Basic knowledge of web design and development (desirable)
• Able to manage own time essential. May require some budget management (e.g. online marketing)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills essential.
• Should be self-motivated and confident to make decisions autonomously and as part of the wider MarComms team.
• Will have own specialism, but also working as part of a team.
• Genuine interest/passion for environment/ marine/ science/ conservation desirable.
• Experience within third sector desirable, particularly those working in environmental charities/NGOs/campaign groups.

PML is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion, and our policy can be found here: https://www.pml.ac.uk/working-with-us. We are proud to have achieved the Athena SWAN award as recognition of our achievements in gender equality. As part of this, we offer opportunities to discuss flexible working and whilst the selection process will be based on merit, we particularly welcome applications from female candidates, currently underrepresented.

PML operates a hybrid working policy whereby employees are able to split their working arrangements between PML’s Plymouth offices and home based working.