Research Support Officer Admin School of Nursing and Midwifery

at  University College Cork

POSITION SUMMARY

The School of Nursing and Midwifery was established in 1994 and since then a wide range of programmes have been developed at both undergraduate, postgraduate and doctorate levels. In addition, the School has a growing suite of Continuing Professional Development modules supporting life-long learning. Since 2012, the School has actively engaged in international recruitment and now has a growing body of international students. The School has over 1,300 students and is one of the largest in the University. The School is committed to excellence and leadership in teaching, practice and research involving close collaborative relationships with health service providers, and national and international educators and researchers. The School holds the Athena Swan Bronze Award and is in the top 50 in QS Rankings. UCC’s School of Nursing and Midwifery is ranked number one in Ireland for H-index citations (score 86.9), meaning that published works of staff in the School are among the most highly cited worldwide. This impact metric reflects the breadth of research activity, where 2023 saw the highest numbers of funded research projects led by staff in the School. Among the 33 active research projects in the School, we secured a prestigious €7.5 million Horizon Europe grant as Coordinators aimed at improving the lives of people with advanced dementia in Nursing Homes and a €2.5 million HRB Applied Programme Grant to improve national supports for breastfeeding. The policy and practice impact from the evidence produced and translated by staff in the School is nationally and internationally recognized and against this background we have established a Research and Innovation Hub which supports the operation of strategic areas of research in the School. To ensure we achieve our strategic goals and maximise research activity and impact we are seeking to employ a Research Support Officer for the Hub. The Research Support Officer will have responsibility for the provision of high-level administrative support in a complex research environment consisting of many interdisciplinary programme grants and multiple Principal Investigators. Working directly with the Dean of School and Vice Dean of Research and Innovation for the School the Research Support Officer will help to foster and enhance a research-enabled environment that builds capacity and supports engagement in research activities for staff of the School.
Project Title: Research Support Officer – Administration for School of Nursing and Midwifery Research and Innovation Hub
Post Duration: 12 Months 0.4 to Research and Innovation Hub 0.6 to support research function of Dean of School full-time
Salary: €45,722 p.a. (Personal Rate)
For an information package including further details of the post see https://ore.ucc.ie/
Informal enquiries can be made in confidence to Professor Nicola Cornally, School Vice Dean of Research and Innovation, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tel: + 353 (0) 214901458; Email: n.cornally@ucc.ie
Applications must be submitted online via the University College Cork vacancy portal (https://ore.ucc.ie/). Queries relating to the online application process should be referred to recruitment@ucc.ie, quoting the job-title and project name.
Candidates should apply, in confidence, before 12 noon (Irish Local Time) on Friday 1st November, 2024.

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