Job Description

Salary: Grade 4(\xc2\xa322,197 - \xc2\xa324,715 p.a. depending on experience)

This role will be based on the university campus, with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are also open to discussing flexible working arrangements.

Are you keen to support services to world class researchers and be involved in the area of open research? Do you have great communications skills, and attention to detail? Are you customer focused and able to make a positive contribution to our team?

The University of Leeds is one of the top 135 universities in the world. We have a truly global community, with more than 39,000 students from 170 different countries and over 9,000 staff of 100 different nationalities. Established in 1904, we have a strong tradition of academic excellence, reflected in first-class student education, along with world-leading research that has a real impact around the globe.

The Research Support Team supports the research activities of our staff and students, face-to-face and online. The team promotes and supports open research activities across the University. This involves supporting open access publishing by administering the University\xe2\x80\x99s publications database and institutional open access repositories. The team also runs training workshops and provides support via the research pages on the Library website.

We\xe2\x80\x99re looking for a professional and proactive individual to join our Research Support Team, committed to excellent customer service and providing support to researchers with their Open Access publications. You\xe2\x80\x99ll need excellent communications and IT skills and be familiar with different types of academic/research digital content. We provide a wide range of services to academic staff engaged in research which means we have to be flexible and responsive, reacting positively to new initiatives, and balancing our workloads to meet service standards.

We\xe2\x80\x99re committed to working with colleagues across the Library and more widely, sharing best practice and providing a seamless service.

Get to know us

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What we offer in return

• 26 days holiday plus 16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) \xe2\x80\x93 that\xe2\x80\x99s 42 days a year!
• Generous pension scheme options plus life assurance
• Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.
• Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team, and self-development courses including languages, Creative Writing, Wellbeing Therapies and much more.
• Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.

And much more!

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:

Gemma Storr, Research Support Assistant

Email:

University of Leeds