Job Description

Salary:

25,733 (pro rata)

FTE:

0.5 (17.5 hours/week)

Term:

Fixed Term (Until 31.03.26)

Closing Date:

21 July 2025



Glasgow is a vibrant city where the FinTech sector is growing at an unprecedented rate. Many large financial firms have established their product development centres in Glasgow: JP Morgan, Barclays, Morgan Stanley, Virgin Money, Tesco Bank and many more. With a highly skilled population and a growing tech start up scene, University of Strathclyde has prioritised the FinTech Cluster (one of six strategic clusters at the University of Strathclyde) as part of our plans to develop the next phase of the University's Technology & Innovation Zone located within the Glasgow City Innovation District.



As part of UK Government efforts to accelerate innovation across the UK in clusters with high growth potential, funding has been allocated to Glasgow to continue to accelerate the growth of "high-potential innovation clusters" in "transformative" R&D projects. A bid led by FinTech Scotland, in collaboration with the University of Strathclyde and the University of Glasgow, has received funding to continue the development of its Financial Regulation Innovation Lab (FRIL), launched in April 2023. FRIL, a first for the UK, builds on the FinTech Scotland Fintech Research & Innovation Roadmap, highlighting the opportunity for more research and innovation in financial regulation. This initiative aligns itself with the UK Government Science and Technology Framework published in March 2023 to put the UK at the forefront of global science and technology. FRIL is a unique environment bringing together FinTech entrepreneurs, large UK and global financial services firms and technology enterprises, regulators, universities and third sector bodies to drive financial innovation in addressing financial regulation opportunities and challenges.



FRIL seeks a Project Assistant to join the team. Based in Strathclyde Business School, the postholder will provide excellent organisational, administrative and operational support to a range of activities within FRIL, including supporting its actionable research series, skills programme provision and innovation challenge delivery. This role is designed to suit a candidate with strong organisation, communication, and teamwork skills, with opportunities to support high-impact industry engagement.



To be successful the postholder will be a resilient and capable administrator with a strong working knowledge of Microsoft 365. They will demonstrate effective communication skills to competently respond to stakeholder enquiries from a variety of organisational levels. With the ability to multi-task, the postholder must be able to work independently, planning and prioritising their own workload, as well as playing a supporting role as part of a thriving and busy team, working to deadlines to ensure that high service standards are met.



Reporting to the Programme Director and Project Administrator, the Project Assistant will be expected to undertake a broad range of organisational and administrative activities which require experience, personal responsibility and initiative. With a well-organised and flexible approach, the postholder will work with FRIL colleagues to support the delivery of innovation challenges, short courses, research white paper publications and stakeholder events. They will also provide general administration support to the FRIL team to support operational efficiency and effectiveness.



Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Christine Sinclair, Programme Director (christine.sinclair@strath.ac.uk) or Houda Elmi, Fintech Project Administrator (houda.elmi@strath.ac.uk).



Formal interviews for this post will be held on Thursday, 31 July 2025.



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