Jobs at University of Birmingham

Supports student recruitment marketing campaigns across digital, social, CRM, website, and offline channels. Produces copy and marketing collateral, coordinates internal and external contributors, supports student content teams, monitors campaign performance, conducts market research, analyzes metrics, prepares reports, and provides administrative support. The role also handles enquiries, promotes the University brand, supports recruitment events, and may require occasional evening, weekend, and travel commitments.

Owns and leads the University's Finance systems, overseeing Oracle or SAP functionality, enhancements, configuration, releases, integrations, data integrity, testing, documentation, and support. The role develops functional roadmaps, improves finance processes, manages defects and service levels, advises stakeholders, and coordinates with managed service providers. It also manages a small team, provides training and knowledge transfer, supports governance, and deputises for the Head of Core Systems Optimisation.

Provides post-award financial administration for externally funded research grants, including budget monitoring, claims, reporting, forecasting, project closure, KPI tracking, and audit preparation. The role supports academic colleagues, ensures compliance with funder requirements, resolves financial issues, liaises with funders, builds stakeholder relationships, and contributes to process improvement and consistent service delivery across the research grants portfolio.

Supports evidence synthesis research on the use of evidence in policymaking. Responsibilities include documentary and qualitative data collection and analysis, developing research methods, drafting publications, presenting findings, supporting staff and students, addressing project issues, and completing research administration. The role requires relevant academic qualifications, evidence synthesis experience, qualitative analysis skills, clear communication, resource management, and competency with EPPI Reviewer and MAXQDA.

Manage the Energy Demand Research Centre across 14 universities and external partners. Responsibilities include project and research programme coordination, strategic planning, budget and Flexible Fund management, stakeholder engagement, reporting, evaluation, risk management, communications, and line management. The role requires delivering complex projects on time and within budget while supporting the Centre’s strategic vision, monitoring outcomes, maintaining data quality, and promoting equality, diversity, inclusion, and sustainability.

Provides administrative support for university work experience programmes, including internships, volunteering and work-based learning. Responsibilities include responding to student, employer and colleague queries; communicating through Verint; supporting events, diaries and programme delivery; processing and analysing data; producing reports; maintaining records; supporting meetings; and suggesting process improvements. The role also involves stakeholder relationship management, customer service, and resolving queries or complaints.

Provides safe, nurturing care for children aged birth to five during nursery mealtimes and play. Duties include preparing and clearing tables, feeding children and babies, preparing bottles and meals, arranging play activities, maintaining hygiene and safety, supporting EYFS requirements, and working with nursery staff, parents, and carers. The role also involves light domestic duties, training participation, confidentiality, safeguarding, and reporting concerns.

Leads the College of Medicine and Health research support team, overseeing pre-award support, research development, proposal drafting, budgeting, compliance, due diligence, grant setup, and contract negotiation. The role manages approximately 25 professionals, develops research-support processes, monitors performance, leads strategic partnerships, supports complex agreements, and promotes staff development, equality, and continuous service improvement across the University.

Leads strategic communications and media engagement for engineering and science activities, developing multi-channel campaigns and content to enhance the university’s global reputation. Builds relationships with media, academics, policymakers, funders, and external partners; identifies news opportunities; supports media training and crisis communications; evaluates audience and campaign performance; manages communications materials, suppliers, and potentially staff; and contributes to press office, leadership, and on-call activities.

Supports multidisciplinary research on decarbonisation strategies in cancer care. Responsibilities include developing and conducting a scoping review, designing search strategies, screening and analysing evidence, extracting data, piloting qualitative interviews, supporting research prioritisation, disseminating findings, drafting publications, assisting project management, and contributing to grant applications and team development.

Leads strategic internal and external communications for the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, covering media relations, social media, website, newsletters, publications, events and campaigns. Develops content, manages communications planning and brand compliance, evaluates audience engagement, builds relationships with media and stakeholders, supports senior spokespeople, and contributes to crisis communications. The role may include line management, committee representation, occasional travel, evening and weekend work, and reactive press support.

Conduct and publish original research in artificial intelligence, digital manufacturing, robotics, digital twins, and related engineering disciplines. Develop and deliver undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing professional development teaching. Supervise PhD students, contribute to curriculum development, pursue research grants, engage with industry and policy partners, and support university management, enterprise, knowledge transfer, and inclusion initiatives.

Assistant Professor in Birmingham Law School responsible for teaching, assessment, curriculum development, student and PhD supervision, research publication, research project management, academic mentoring, and school administration. The role focuses particularly on private law subjects including contract, tort, trusts, company, commercial, banking, and international law. The postholder will contribute to knowledge transfer, public engagement, employability, equality and diversity initiatives, and the wider academic community.

Assistant Professor at Birmingham Law School responsible for teaching, assessment, curriculum development, student supervision, research publication, grant development, PhD mentoring, knowledge transfer, and School administration. The role also involves academic citizenship, leadership, equality and diversity initiatives, public engagement, and supporting an inclusive learning environment. New appointees participate in a five-year academic development programme with expected progression to Associate Professor.