You will be the primary individual responsible for delivering Durham University’s Access and Participation Plan (APP). This role is pivotal in driving forward the University’s commitment to fostering an inclusive and diverse academic community by removing barriers to higher education for underrepresented groups. Key responsibilities: Strategic Leadership and Management; Programme Development and Delivery; Stakeholder Engagement and Partnership Working; Research and Policy Development; Monitoring and Reporting; Financial and Resource Management.
You will be responsible for organising and delivering part of their comprehensive programme of IAG and Subject Specific activities. Working closely with the Senior Access Officer you will liaise with external stakeholders including schools, teachers and charities as well as internal stakeholders such as academic departments and service-providers. You will be expected to regularly represent UCL in schools, and deliver presentations and workshops to school-aged students, mainly in and around London with some travel around the UK. The role involves visiting schools, running school visits to UCL, and organising and running our new long-term programme "UCL Expand". The team also deliver two weeks of summer schools and work closely with academic staff, supporting them to run their own outreach activities.
You will be the Society’s goto person for advice on diversity and inclusion matters, and to ensure that the programmes fulfil the Royal Society’s objectives and expectations of quality, and that they run effectively and efficiently. You will ensure that Royal Society activities are imaginative, maximise impact with target audiences and reinforce the Society’s position as the UK’s national academy of science. Specifically, to develop, enhance or support the following activities, e.g.: supporting teams across the Society to enable them to deliver their diversity and inclusion activities; providing expertise, guidance and advice on diversity and inclusion matters to the senior leadership team and all sections across the Society; developing a programme of activity designed to support the diversity of applications to the Society’s grant schemes and encouraging leadership aspirations for researchers from minority and underrepresented groups
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