JOB SUMMARY

Salary: £45,272 Per Annum
Hours: Full Time (Condensed Hours / Flexible Working)
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract (Until Mid Sep 2026 - Secondments Considered)
Location: Polaris House, Swindon or Caxton House, London (Hybrid Working)
Grade: UKRI Band E
Closing Date: Wednesday 1 October 2025
The purpose of this role is to support UKRI’s ambitions for open research, by supporting and leading strategy and policy development, and implementation, across UKRI and with external stakeholders. The role is responsible for implementation and strategic progress of the UKRI open access policy for monographs, book chapters, and edited collections, and wider aspects of the open access publications portfolio, including related responsible research assessment change.

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Lead the implementation and strategic progress of the UKRI open access policy for monographs, book chapters, and edited collections.
• Develop options and advice to inform key decision making, sometimes to rapid timescales.
• Lead and support strategic stakeholder communication and engagement
• Contribute to the work of the Open Research team and wider UKRI.
  The role reports to a Strategy Lead in the Open Research Team.

All members of the team will:

• Develop relationships across the R&I community to help UKRI better understand our role as steward of the sector and what that means.
• Support the development of a suite of communication tools to help UKRI to message successfully to the community our ambition and activity in this area
• Support colleagues across UKRI and the wider Executive team on matters relating to the team’s topic area
• Contribute to the broader working of UKRI
• Within the flexible work style of this organisation, individual responsibilities may evolve and change to manage the broader range of work priorities.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

Strategy