Description UE05 - £28,879 - £33,232 pro-rata Usher Institute, Centre for Medical Informatics Contract type: Part time, 0.5FTE (17.5hrs per week) Fixed Term available from January 2025 to 31 December 2025 Location: Usher Building, BioQuarter, The University of Edinburgh, 5-7 Little France Road, BioQuarter – Gate 3, Edinburgh, EH16 4UX We are looking for a Research Administrator to provide support to the UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration team within Usher Institute. The Opportunity: A great opportunity to work part-time with a friendly and interdisciplinary team that spans the Universities of Edinburgh and Bristol, with collaborators across the UK’s data science community. This role is suited to individuals who enjoy taking an organised approach to their work with a desire to deliver high quality administrative support spanning public involvement, finance and communications. Informal enquiries may be directed to Kirsteen Campbell, Public Involvement and Communications Manager Kirsteen.campbelled.ac.uk. Your skills and attributes for success: • Excellent written and organisational skills with ability to engage effectively with people across multiple organisations and members of the public. • Experience of working successfully as part of a team, thriving using a flexible approach and has a solution-driven mindset. • A keen interest in social media and website management. Click to view a copy of the full job description (opens new browser tab). Please include your CV and a supporting statement with details of how you meet the knowledge, skills and experience required for this post. Non-University of Edinburgh employees (i.e. external applicants) – please refer to the How to Apply – External Candidate system user guide. Current University of Edinburgh employees (i.e. internal applicants) interested in applying for this role – you must apply as an internal applicant through the People and Money Current Jobs tile. Please refer to the How to Apply – UoE Employee system user guide. As a valued member of our team you can expect: An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Click to access our staff benefits page (opens new browser tab) for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided. The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality. If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab). Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone. Work with us | Usher Institute - where inquiring minds work together to improve lives across the world. Join our growing team of academics and professional services staff and work in a vibrant, multi-disciplinary environment. Our vision is to catalyse the transformation of health in society by working with people, populations and their data. Our greatest asset is our people, working together to improve public health using evidence-based research. We are a key applied and translational arm of the Edinburgh Medical School, within the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at The University of Edinburgh. Working with partners across UK and international universities, health and care providers, policymakers, industry and the public is central to our highly collaborative ethos. On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.