Senior Research Methodology Advisor Ref 21814
School/department: Health Research Partnership/BSMS
Hours: up to 1.0 FTE. Requests for flexible working, including working from home options will be considered (subject to business need).
Location: Falmer, United Kingdom
Contract: Fixed term for 3 years in first instance
Reference: 21814
Salary: Starting at £45,585 to £54,395 per annum, pro rata if part time
Placed on: 09 October 2023
Closing date: 25 October 2023. Applications must be received by midnight of the closing date.
Expected Interview date: To be confirmed
Expected start date: 1 February 2024
Job description
The Brighton and Sussex Health Partnership (HRP) was established by Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) in 2022. It brings together academic and NHS partners across Sussex to develop shared research infrastructure, capacity and collaborations, and align priorities and strategies across the partners to build a shared, unique profile for health and care research in Sussex.
This new post is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the HRP’s development of early career health and care researchers. We are seeking to appoint somebody with a personal track-record of success in health and care research with diverse experience of research advising who can provide methodological and statistical support to early career researchers, to enhance the quality of research proposals, increase funding success rates and build research skills.
The ideal candidate will have knowledge and expertise of areas such as clinical research & trial design, qualitative methods, statistical methods and data analysis and will be able to support, advise and add value to applications from a range of health & care areas, will have a proactive, positive and flexible attitude and exceptional communication skills.
The successful candidate will work closely with the Brighton and Sussex Clinical Trials Unit, the Joint Clinical Research Office, expert statisticians based at the Medical School and with clinical colleagues-based at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust and other local NHS provider organisations.
Please contact Virginia Govoni, Head of Health Research Partnership at v.govoni@bsms.ac.uk for informal enquiries.
The University is committed to equality and valuing diversity, and applications are particularly welcomed from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Mathematics (STEMM) at Sussex.
The University of Sussex values the diversity of its staff and students and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
You can find out more about our values and our EDI Strategy, Inclusive Sussex, on our webpages.
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How to apply
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