We’re hiring!
Project Administration Coordinator
We’re seeking an organised and driven project administrator to join our team and support the delivery of our research programme.
Under the leadership of Professor Carlene Firmin, our programme features a range of projects that research, and aim to improve, how services respond when young people are at risk of harm in contexts beyond their family homes. The programme is having a significant impact on policy and practice development, and the research team require support from a project administrator on tasks that are central to ongoing delivery and dissemination of their work.
This role is required to support the research team with: updating the programme website; development and distribution of the monthly programme newsletter; travel and accommodation bookings for fieldwork and dissemination events; managing the general Contextual Safeguarding email address; liaising with finance department regarding payment of invoices, coordinating event and training requests made to the team; and supporting the programme PI with some diary management tasks where required.
This is a fixed term externally funded position, working 14 hours per week (0.4fte) for a duration of 24 months. The funding is time limited until 31st March 2027. This role can be delivered in a hybrid fashion, with working from home available. The successful candidate will be expected to work between the hours of 8.30-17:30, and one of these days being a Tuesday, as key team meetings take place on this day. The remaining working pattern can be agreed upon appointment.
Closing date: 4 February 2025
Find out more information and how to apply here.
Postdoctoral Research Associate: Everybody’s Business
Are you a researcher committed to social justice? Do you have an interest in understanding, and improving, young people’s safety in public spaces? Have you ever worked in a hospitality setting? If so, this could a research opportunity for you!
The programme is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the team, as we embark on the next stage of our world-leading research programme to transform local, national and international responses to harm in peer, community and school contexts. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work as part of a team on the project ‘Everybody’s Business’ – co-creating the first pilots of Contextual Safeguarding in hospitality settings. The project will use established embedded and ethnographic research methods within hospitality settings to review existing arrangements before piloting features of system redesign to better align with contextual approaches. The project is delivered in partnership with hospitality leaders and staff, safeguarding partnerships, and policymakers, to impact safety in public spaces nationally and internationally. The project is being delivered over an 18-month period, with 12-months of extensive data collection and analysis in which the research associate will play a central role.
This is a fixed-term, externally funded position for 12 months, working 18.5 hours per work (0.5fte), with the potential to increase hours depending on other funding applications. Travel to data collection sites, and for impact activities, are reimbursed. Members of the research team are not required to spend extensive amounts of time in Durham, given that their research activities are taking place in multiple locations.
Closing date: 4 February 2025
Find out more information and how to apply here.