Museum Events and Booking Assistant (Part Time, Fixed Term)
Located in the heart of Cambridge, the Zoology Department is a buzzing and friendly community of researchers, students, and visitors who are passionate about exploring the wonders of the natural world. The Museum of Zoology, part of Department of Zoology, holds a collection of approximately two million specimens covering the entire animal kingdom, past and present, around 5,000 of which are on public display. The collections are designated as being of outstanding national and international significance, and are vitally important for our knowledge of the history of fauna around the world. The Museum is also one of Cambridge's major visitor attractions, welcoming over 100,000 visitors a year. Our public engagement team provides a wide range of opportunities for our visitors and school groups.
We are recruiting a Museum Events and Bookings Assistant, in order to grow the Museum's capacity for corporate hire to raise funds to support our mission. This is an exciting role with varied responsibilities. Working as part of the Operations and Visitor Services team, you will provide support to the Business and Visitor Services Manager with venue hire administration, including liaising with clients during the booking process and attending evening events. You will assist team members with activities such as coordinating group bookings, collating visitor data for reporting purposes and overseeing the implementation of volunteer led Gallery activities. This position also includes working with the Public Engagement team to support the Museum's learning programmes. This will involve assisting with the preparation of public engagement events, including event advertising through the use of social media, and taking responsibility for event ticketing.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and versatile individual who has experience working within a customer focused or event management role. Previous experience in a museum setting is desirable but not essential. This role requires excellent communication skills, and a desire to inform, enthuse and motivate others. You should be a good team player, and with strong organisational skills you will be accustomed to working to targets and deadlines. This position could be your chance to kick-start your career in either the museum or events sector, and contribute to the success of the Museum of Zoology. So, what are you waiting for? Join us now and make a difference!
The successful applicant will have access to a broad range of staff benefits and personal development opportunities including discounts at a wide range of local and national businesses and educational opportunities available exclusively to University of Cambridge employees.
You will be required to work on site and the appointment is offered on a fixed term (3 years), part time basis (0.8 FTE). Working hours include a full day (9am-5pm/7hrs) on Saturdays as part of the normal working week. The remaining hours (21.2hrs) should be spread across the week, with working pattern to be agreed. The role also requires regular evening working.
If you are interested in this role please contact Lisa Sneath, Business and Visitor Services Manager, ls761@cam.ac.uk for an informal discussion of the role.
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for three years.
Once an offer of employment has been accepted, the successful candidate will be required to undergo a basic disclosure (criminal records check) check, a health assessment and a security check.
Applications are welcome from internal candidates who would like to apply for the role on the basis of a secondment from their current role in the University.
Flexible working requests will be considered.
We particularly welcome applications from candidates from a BME background for this vacancy as they are currently under-represented at this level in our University.
Click the 'Apply' button below to register an account with our recruitment system (if you have not already) and apply online.
If you have any queries regarding the application process please contact Anastasia Nezhentseva.
Email: an286@cam.ac.uk Telephone: (0)1223 330117
Please quote reference PF38508 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.
The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.
Group Leader Research Fellowship Sponsorship Scheme
Are you planning to submit a senior research fellowship* application from April 2024? The Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge seeks Expressions of Interest from early career researchers who wish to be sponsored for externally funded fellowships that will allow them to start an independent research group in our Department.
We offer a programme of support that will help you to establish your independence as an academic researcher, including assistance with your fellowship application and setting up your lab, as well as mentoring and training to help you develop your career. Research fellows will also have access to the comprehensive package of ongoing support available from the School of Biological Sciences https://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/research/research-fellowships.
During the past 10 years, every one of our Senior Research Fellows has secured a lectureship or equivalent position at leading international universities and research institutes.
About the Department of Zoology
We are a thriving community of researchers whose research investigates how animal life evolved, how it functions, and how it persists today. The Department comprises of more than 30 research groups, working at every level of biological organization from genes to ecosystems. We are keen to increase diversity in our academic staff and particularly encourage expressions of interest from women and BAME applicants.
Our dynamic intellectual environment includes the world-leading Cambridge Conservation Institute and University Museum of Zoology, and provides opportunities for collaboration in research themes that span the School of Biological Sciences (https://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/research/research-themes ) and the wider university (https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/research-at-cambridge/strategic-research-initiatives-networks ). The School of Biological Sciences has state of the art facilities in imaging, high performance computing and bioinformatics.
Our research strengths currently lie in behaviour and neuroscience, conservation science, ecology and all aspects of evolutionary biology (including biomechanical adaptations, evo-devo, evolutionary genomics, evolutionary ecology, palaeontology, social evolution and viral evolution).
How to apply for support
Please address informal enquires to the Head of Department Professor Rebecca Kilner HoD@zoo.cam.ac.uk
To make an application, please email the following to admin@zoo.cam.ac.uk by 17:00 GMT on Monday 13th November 2023:
A CV including a list of publications (highlighting the three publications that you consider to be most significant). Applicants are welcome to use the R4RI narrative format for academic CVs, but this is not a requirement https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/research-culture/tools-for-support/resume-for-researchers/
Two references sent directly to admin@zoo.cam.ac.uk
A two page outline of your intended research programme
A statement of why you would like to work in the Department
A brief outline of the facilities you would need during a Fellowship
We will shortlist the fellowship applicants we would like to support by Friday 1st December. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to the Department to meet the academic staff and give a seminar in the week beginning 15 January 2024.
*Target fellowship schemes include: NERC Independent Fellowship, ERC Starting / Consolidator Grant, The Wellcome Trust Career Development Awards, Royal Society University Research Fellowship, Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship, Branco-Weiss Research Fellowship.
For more information about the Senior Research Fellowship Support Programme please visit our website (https://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/senior-research-fellowship-schemes)
If you have any queries regarding the application process please contact Anastasia Nezhentseva.
Email: an286@cam.ac.uk Telephone: (0)1223 330117
Please quote reference PF38284 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.
The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.
Post-doctoral Research Associate: Leakage Impact of Forest Restoration (Fixed Term)
Fixed-term: Funds for this position are available for two years.
We are looking for a highly motivated post-doctoral researcher to develop a remote sensing framework for quantifying the extent of leakage from forest restoration activities in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest and Amazon biomes and the associated impacts on carbon and biodiversity.
The project is a partnership between the Cambridge Centre for Carbon Credits (4C) and re-green. 4C aims to verify the claims and consequences of nature-based climate solutions. re.green is a new Brazilian organisation aiming to undertake extensive restoration of Brazil's Atlantic and Amazon forests. This partnership focuses on applying 4C's analytical methods to the real-world restoration activities being pioneered by re.green, in order to enhance both 4C's understanding of forest restoration and re-green's capacity to document its impacts.
Your role in the project is to develop methods to assess the extent of leakage of agricultural production from forest restoration sites and its consequences for both carbon and biodiversity. You will bring together ground-based data provided by re.green with appropriate remotely-sensed datasets in order to measure and track leakage resulting from forest restoration.
You will be self-motivated and able to work efficiently to meet deadlines and in collaboration with external organisations and individuals. You will hold a PhD in a relevant subject and have effective written and verbal communication skills. You will have the ability to communicate with a range of audiences and be able to curate, analyse and interpret large and complex data sets to peer-reviewed standards of scrutiny and audit. Knowledge of forest and agricultural land use change dynamics in Brazil and local agricultural datasets is essential, as is experience in handling remotely-derived datasets. Understanding of counterfactual pixel matching techniques is highly desirable. You must also be able to travel to Brazil for repeated visit with re.green partners. Fluency in Portuguese desirable.
Applications are welcome from internal candidates who would like to apply for the role on the basis of a secondment from their current role in the University.
Informal enquiries are welcomed and should be directed to: Professor Andrew Balmford Email: apb12@cam.ac.uk.
Flexible working requests will be considered.
We particularly welcome applications from women and candidates from a BME background for this vacancy as they are currently under-represented at this level in our University.
Click the 'Apply' button below to register an account with our recruitment system (if you have not already) and apply online.
If you have any queries regarding the application process please contact Anastasia Nezhentseva.
Email: an286@cam.ac.uk Telephone: (0)1223 330117
Please quote reference PF38259 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.
The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.
Postdoctoral Research Associate Centre for Pathogen Evolution (Fixed term)
We invite applications for a postdoctoral Research Associate position to join the Centre for Pathogen Evolution in the Department of Zoology, located in central Cambridge. The appointment will be for a period of two years with a possibility of extension subject to project status and funding, starting as soon as possible.
The research focus is to design and develop analytical, computational, and mathematical methods to understand the fundamental processes that govern the evolution of influenza viruses. The aim is to translate this understanding into the prediction of possible future antigenic variants to guide trials of next generation influenza vaccines. Our research is highly interdisciplinary and involves substantial global collaboration with experimental virologists, immunologists and clinicians to quantify the selection pressures on influenza viruses to better understand their evolutionary dynamics, and to inform control strategies. This position is funded by the US National Institutes of Health with a preferred start date of 1 November 2023, or as soon as possible thereafter.
The role will be based on site in the department of Zoology, with hybrid working arrangements possible following agreement. Please upload a copy of your CV (2 sides of A4 maximum) and a covering letter (2 sides of A4 maximum).
Interview dates: Interviews will be held between 9th and 29th October 2023 and may be conducted remotely.
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for two years with a possibility of extension subject to project status and funding.
Applications are welcome from internal candidates who would like to apply for the role on the basis of a secondment from their current role in the University.
Flexible working requests will be considered.
We particularly welcome applications from women and candidates from a BME background for this vacancy as they are currently under-represented at this level in our University.
Click the 'Apply' button below to register an account with our recruitment system (if you have not already) and apply online.
If you have any queries regarding the application process please contact Anastasia Nezhentseva.
Email: an286@cam.ac.uk Telephone: (0)1223 330117
Please quote reference PF37944 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.
The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.
Safety and Environmental Coordinator
The Department of Zoology is very friendly and welcoming and is also internationally renowned for its exceptional record in teaching and research. We are now looking for a Safety and Environmental Coordinator - a proactive, enthusiastic and versatile individual with a collaborative and hands-on approach to undertake this important role.
The role holder will be part of the departmental safety team and will play a significant hands on role in many activities, processes and systems within the department. They will be a first point of contact for safety-related queries and they will use a pragmatic approach to facilitate safe and compliant research. They will be required to work on site and to interact with a wide range of professional services staff, academics, students and contractors. They will also take the lead on environmental issues which are a high priority in the Department.
The role holder will be excellent communicator, with proven IT and organisational skills. They will have a meticulous attention to detail and be able to make effective decisions on their own and whilst working as part of a wider team. They must also be able to work under pressure and to deal with emergencies calmly.
The successful candidate will have an HNC/degree or equivalent in a biology-related subject. They should hold a National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH) General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety and/or Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) Managing Safely, or be willing to gain qualification (s). They will be expected to undertake all the University mandatory trainings.
Informal enquiries should be directed to Sylviane Moss, Lab and Facilities Manager: smmc2@cam.ac.uk
Once an offer of employment has been accepted, the successful candidate will be required to undergo a basic disclosure (criminal records check) check, a health assessment and a security check. Applications are welcome from internal candidates who would like to apply for the role on the basis of a secondment from their current role in the University.
Flexible working requests will be considered
We particularly welcome applications from women and candidates from a BME background for this vacancy as they are currently under-represented at this level in our University.
Click the 'Apply' button below to register an account with our recruitment system (if you have not already) and apply online.
If you have any queries regarding the application process please contact Anastasia Nezhentseva.
Email: an286@cam.ac.uk Telephone: (0)1223 330117
Please quote reference PF37709 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.
The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.