Doctoral Training Partnership Support Officer

UE06 (£28,756 – 33,309)
College of Science and Engineering
School of Biological Sciences
Full-Time (35 Hours per week)
Fixed term until 30/09/2025

The Opportunity:
This is an exciting opportunity to develop your professional skills by working with the DTP governance structure to deliver the broadly recognised and innovative EASTBIO DTP programme. Funded for a third time by UKRI BBSRC, EASTBIO recruits 60+ PhD students annually, awards summer placements and provides funded students with strategic training, including professional placements outside academia. The job will give you the opportunity to help us consolidate our successes by coordinating our joint recruitment processes, administering our cross-DTP training events and activities and providing excellent support and guidance to students and supervisors on the programme. Your role will also involve communicating success, outputs, and relevant data within the partnership and our shareholders.

Click here for a copy of the full job description .

As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme,staff discounts, family friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits pagefor further information and use our reward calculatorto find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

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.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to workwebpages.

The University may be able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. This will depend on a number of factors specific to the successful applicant.