Outreach Officer

Royce is seeking an Outreach Officer to provide a maternity cover within the institute. The role will help deliver of the Institute’s outreach and public engagement plan. The post holder will be responsible for delivering outreach and public engagement activities on behalf of the institute's partners at a national level. These activities will include public events, community fairs, science festivals, museum engagement and exhibitions. The role will work with technical staff and researchers at Royce, and with stakeholders more widely across the UK to champion the discipline of materials science.

The post holder will be an enthusiastic and motivated individual with an interest in sharing their own, and others’, experience and knowledge of the material science discipline. They will need to engage with varied and multiple stakeholders, ranging from school children and the public to materials scientists working in academia and industry.

The post is currently funded until 31 March 2027 in the first instance.

About You

We encourage applications from individuals with a wide range of backgrounds and experiences. You should demonstrate:

We value transferable skills and real-world experience as much as formal qualifications.

What you’ll do:

• Deliver a diverse range of outreach activities centred on widening participation principles to raise awareness of materials science as a discipline
• Deliver an ongoing series of public engagement events to share materials research ongoing across Royce partners
• Organise events with local, regional or national focuses on material science research and innovation
• Build and nurture relationships with stakeholders across the wider materials community to identify their requirements in relation to outreach and appropriately reflect these in the Institute’s activities in this area.
• Design and implement exhibitions and displays highlighting materials research

This is a hands-on and people-centric role, ideal for someone interested in the physical sciences, able to learn from leaders in materials science and talk to students, school pupils, and the public about the work Royce undertakes.

Join us and help share ideas, talk to people and explore the future of advanced materials.

Our benefits include:

• Generous employer pension contribution
• Christmas closure across all departments outside of annual leave and bank holidays
• Purple Place employee discount platform

For more information, please see University of Manchester Benefits. You can also find information on our Flexible and Hybrid working here.

We are an open place of enquiry and challenge. We embrace and celebrate difference, diversity and debate, and we pride ourselves on being a place of education, learning and community where we are able, within the law, to question and test received wisdom, express new ideas and explore controversial or unpopular topics and opinions. Find out more from our Freedom of Speech Policy.

Enquiries about the role, shortlisting and interviews

Name: Tom Hancocks

Email Address: tom.hancocks@royce.ac.uk

General enquiries and administrative support

recruitmentservices.people@manchester.ac.uk

Technical and job portal support

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This role is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must demonstrate the right to work in the UK.

Applications close at midnight on the closing date.

Further particulars (with person specification) linked below.