AddressGrade - UE07 £37,099 to £44,263 per annum (A revised salary range for this grade of £39,347 to £46,974 is planned to take effect from Spring 2024)
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences/School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences/Psychology
Full time - 35 hours per week
Fixed term - Approximately 16 months
The Psychology Department in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking an LBC Study Coordinator on a full time, fixed term post for approximately 16 months.
The Opportunity:
The Lothian Birth Cohorts are a research group based in Psychology with the overall aim of understanding how our brain and thinking skills change throughout life, and why some people's brains age better than others.
The key responsibilities of this post are to coordinate work plans and task allocation to ensure project goals are met, maintain ongoing communications with participants, coordinate team members with regard to ongoing data collection and undertake primary analyses of data and write up papers in collaboration with the study PIs.
The post holder will work with the Knowledge Exchange & Impact Officer to engage in knowledge exchange with funders and stakeholders. They may co-supervise graduate students and teach on relevant MSc courses where appropriate.
Requests for hybrid working can be discussed at the time of offer, but please note On-Campus working will be required.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- Appropriate degree, with relevant post-graduate research experience in Psychology or a related discipline. Normally a PhD or equivalent professional qualification and/or relevant experience.
- Knowledge of cognitive testing, especially of older people, according to standard operating procedures to a highly reliable level.
- Experience of multivariate statistical analyses with cognitive data.
- Proven experience of working within a clinical environment, to established protocols and procedures, where established scientific methods are translated to project/data processes
- Demonstrable understanding of research planning and procedures for large scale, multidisciplinary studies across research sites and stakeholders
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This job requires:
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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
- A competitive salary of £37,099 - £44,263 (appointment within scale will be dependent upon experience)
- An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits
Championing equality, diversity and inclusion
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.
We particularly welcome applications from eligible candidates from under-represented groups, including racially minoritised individuals and all gender identities.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University 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)
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.
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 12 March 2024
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Interviews are expected to be held mid-April.
Application information
We ask you to include a current CV and cover letter with names of three referees who may be contacted at a later date (please note if you do not wish for anyone to be contacted until after an offer has been made).
We invite candidates to use their cover letter to highlight professional and personal experiences that may be relevant to role. PPLS interview panels will take submitted documents into account when assessing applications in line with listed criteria, including acknowledging areas of potential impact such as caring responsibilities, family leave and health related matters.
