Research Project Manager

10184 COG-MHEAR (0.5FT) Research Project Manager – Fixed term for up to 41 months 

An exciting opportunity is available for a Research Project Manager to join the UK EPSRC Funded Programme Grant: COG-MHEAR, led by Programme Director (PD), Professor Amir Hussain and based in the School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University (ENU).

COG-MHEAR is a world-leading cross-disciplinary research programme funded under the EPSRC Transformative Healthcare Technologies 2050 Call. It includes academic partners from 6 other UK Universities and a strong User-Group comprising industrial and clinical collaborators, and end-user engagement organisations. The ambitious programme aims to develop the world’s first multi-modal hearing-aid demonstrator by radically exploiting and integrating the transformative potential of privacy-assuring and explainable AI, 5G, IoT and cybersecurity, coupled with flexible (skin-based) electronics. More details on COG-MHEAR can be found on its website (http://cogmhear.org ) 

Further information about the School of Computing can be found here. Additional facts and figures on ENU can be found here .
The role: 

The role (flexible up to 50% full-time) involves co-ordinating and managing all aspects of the programme-grant and taking a leading research role in one or more individual COG-MHEAR project, under the direction of the PD.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

Reporting to the PD, the post-holder will coordinate and manage all aspects of the programme-grant, including:

• developing and flexibly maintaining overall strategies, ensuring all scientific and technical activities are delivering to the required quality and relevance against plan and budget
• ensuring synchronisation, motivation and communications between the individual-projects that make up the COG-MHEAR programme
• developing and maintaining interactions with the User-Group, including building liaisons with new User-Group members for whom the programme has relevance 
• working closely with lead researchers of each individual COG-MHEAR project to promote required collaborations, ensuring results are communicated across the consortium, and building liaisons with relevant User-Group members.
• support qualitative and/or quantitative research in one or more individual project in COG-MHEAR, under the direction of the PD, e.g. complement innovations in speech, hearing and/or public health research
• undertaking other COG-MHEAR activities as appropriate, under the direction of the PD 

Who We Are Looking For:
A highly-motivated, flexible and adaptable individual who brings:

• experience of project management and delivery, preferably in an interdisciplinary health/social care or a related setting;
• demonstrable ability to make effective independent contributions to collaborative research/project teams;
• ability to undertake policy development work relating to optimal user engagement and flexible risk-based management, to meet changes in the scientific, technological or user landscapes; 
• preferably, experience of public engagement and the communication of research to a wider audience

For a detailed list of requirements, please read the full role profile here. Informal inquiries can be made to Prof Hussain ([email protected] )

Benefits We Offer
Salary: Grade 5-, £32816 per annum
Further information about our benefits can be found here .

Additional Information

Application Closing Date: 19th Sep 2021

Interviews are likely to be held in late Sep 2021, with a start-date as soon as possible thereafter.

The University is committed to inclusion, demonstrated through our work in respect of our diversity awards and accreditations and hold Disability Confident, Carer Positive and Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champion status.

More details can be found here .