Job Description

About us
University College London (UCL) and UCL East, Stratford
UCL is a multi-disciplinary university with a population of over 13,000 staff and 38,000 students from 150 different countries. Degree programmes are provided in Arts and Humanities, Built Environment, Brain Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Education, Laws, Life Sciences, Mathematical & Physical Sciences, Medical Sciences, Population Health Sciences and Social and Historical Sciences. For more information see
The Institute of Making
The Institute of Making is a unique organisation that explores, celebrates, and investigates materials and processes. Through our varied activities we provide a creative home for all makers and materials enthusiasts to collaborate, innovate, contemplate, and experience materials and making from a wide range of disciplines.
About the role
In this dynamic role, the postholder will work with the rest of the Materials Library team to improve the usability of the collection and its user interfaces, making it more accessible and engaging for multidisciplinary staff and students at UCL. In particular, the post-holder will be tasked with researching, purchasing, and operating a small suite of user-friendly benchtop tools for materials exploration (including tools for imaging, testing and characterisation).
The post-holder will support the Head of Materials Library and Communications Manager to ensure that any scientific content in our public communications is accurate, accessible, and engaging. This may involve checking the accuracy of content from other areas of the Institute of Making, or researching the properties, processes, and uses of materials in our Materials Library collections and distilling complex multidisciplinary research papers into short, pithy, engaging stories, blog posts and social media content.
In addition, the post-holder will be expected to positively contribute to the friendly, welcoming, imaginative, and open-minded atmosphere of the Institute of Making
This role meets the eligibility requirements for a skilled worker certificate of sponsorship or a global talent visa under UK Visas and Immigration legislation. Therefore, UCL welcomes applications from international applicants who require a visa.
About you
The successful candidate will need to demonstrate the following criteria:

• Excellent, in-depth understanding of the science of materials and a broad understanding of a range of manufacturing processes.
• Experience of engaging audiences from different disciplinary backgrounds with the science of materials or manufacturing processes through talks, storytelling, demos, or hands-on activities.
• Excellent research skills, with the ability to find, survey, understand and distil information about materials from a wide array of peer-reviewed, reliable, multi-disciplinary sources.
• Ability to update and maintain digital catalogues, databases, and website content.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details. Please also read the attached Candidate Guidance document.
All applications must include a supporting statement telling us, using examples, how you meet the essential criteria listed in the job description. Applications without a supporting statement will be rejected.
Important note: Please do not attach any copies of certificates or research documents. If you are successful, these will be requested at a later date.
If you have any queries about the role or application process, have any technical issues, or need reasonable adjustments or a more accessible format to apply for this job online, please contact the staffing team at
What we offer
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer great benefits some of which are listed 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
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance

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Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
As Londons Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the worlds 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 UCLs workforce.
These include people from Black, Asian, and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.
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