JOB VACANCY

Operational ManagerGROW Colombia

RCUK-GCRF-Grow-Colombia

Background to the RCUK-GCRF Growing Research Capability award: Preserving, restoring and managing Colombian Biodiversity through Responsible Innovation (GROW-Colombia)

The Earlham Institute was recently awarded an RCUK-GCRF capacity building grant focused on preserving and managing biodiversity in Colombia. Colombia’s biodiversity is not only important for the country’s natural heritage and the preservation of unique species in the world, it is also essential for the improvement of human welfare, social equality and economic development.

The programme, led by Professor Federica Di Palma, is a multidisciplinary programme aimed at strengthening Colombian research capability in the biological sciences, computational biology, and socio-economics, and raising general awareness of the importance of biodiversity. The programme brings together an alliance of complementary skills from a wide range of partners to understand the mutual impacts of biodiverse ecosystems and sustainable agricultural productivity.

Our goals are to build research capacity, partnerships and knowledge, with the longer-term goals of stimulating economic and social growth around biodiversity.

Overview.

Salary:£31,250 - £38,100Post No: 1003399Contract length: 46 monthsDepartment: Organisms & EcosystemsOpening date: 22 January 2018Closing date: 02February 2018

Job details

The funded programme sits alongside the BRIDGE Colombia network (www.bridgecolombia.org) which is a multidisciplinary network of research organisations in the UK and Colombia founded in March 2017, to develop robust coordinated activities under a shared vision centered on biodiversity as a means to achieve sustainability and peace. The network actively facilitates collaborative and fully integrated research programmes; promotes research excellence and the use of innovation in technologies and approaches to develop resilience in research capabilities; stimulates partnerships; and promotes exchange of knowledge.

Several new academic appointments and operational appointments (postdoctoral and fellowship level) are being made at EI under the GROW Colombia programme.

Here we are seeking a highly skilled Operational Manager to join Earlham Institute to provide operational management for the £6.5M Grow Colombia project funded by Research Councils UK through the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) (http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/funding/gcrf/growingcapability/).

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The Operational Manager will be responsible for assisting with the management and successful delivery of the GROW-Colombia Programme. Their work will focus on operational aspects of the programme and will support the delivery and external representation, and fundraising. The Operational Manager will have responsibility for the day to day financial and operational management, including risks and monitoring and evaluation, and developing and maintaining effective relationships with the funders’ teams and collaborative research partners.

The ideal candidate:

Earlham Institute is seeking to recruit an exceptional individual with accomplished time management and organisational skills, and

The role.

the ability to use initiative in order to meet competing deadlines. Candidates should possess excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate confidently with staff of all levels both internally and externally.

To be considered for this post, candidates must be educated to degree level, or equivalent, and possess a postgraduate management qualification. They will have proven management experience, including financial management and reporting experience.

Knowledge and awareness of Colombian culture and current affairs would be an advantage, as would the ability to speak good Spanish.

The Earlham Institute is located on the Norwich Research Park, together with its partners: the John Innes Centre, the Quadram Institute, The Sainsbury Laboratory, the University of East Anglia, and the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.

The research park has an excellent reputation for research in plant and microbial sciences, interdisciplinary environmental science and food, diet and health, to which EI contributes strengths in genomics and bioinformatics.

About the Earlham Institute.

The Earlham Institute brings together multidisciplinary expertise in biosciences, bioinformatics, high performance computing and statistics to understand complex biological systems in relation to plants, animals, and their interaction with the environment. Our research is uniquely enabled by core capabilities in advanced genomics, single cell analysis, and computational platforms.

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