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Academic Vacancies
Postgraduate Teaching Vacancies
Only available to UCL Chemistry Students - working a maximum of 20 hours per week. Work must not be carried out until we have seen and verified your Right to Work (i.e. passport). If you work before this, you will not be paid for any hours you did.
- Postgraduate employment opportunities - Chemistry Department
You should not carry out any work until we have seen and verified your right to work, as any work carried out before this Right to Work check will not be paid for.
Applications are invited from postgraduate students who wish to be considered for the following post:
Postgraduate Teaching Assistants (Grade 6)
Payment will be at Grade 6 pt 21 on the UCL salary scale, which is currently £15.32 per hour (including London Allowance).
The postholder will be required to assist in the teaching of undergraduate chemistry, in teaching (remote and or face to face) and marking of laboratory scripts for undergraduate chemistry laboratories, in outreach and widening participation activities and other related duties including providing support to module teams to develop online learning materials and activities, under direction of the module lead.Please note: Undergraduate students who carry out ad-hoc duties, or demonstrating at Workshops or Open Days will be paid at Grade 5 pt 20, which is currently £14.94 per hour and this will be organised through UniTemps. Again, they must see your Right to Work first before any work is done. Please contact our Chemistry HR team for guidance (hr.chem@ucl.ac.uk)
If you wish to apply for Postgraduate teaching/demonstrating, please go to the PG Teaching Moodle page at: https://moodle.ucl.ac.uk 'Chemistry Teaching for PhD Students and PDRA's', then to 'Contracts and Training' for a Job Description & Person Specification and further instructions. You can also email our Chemistry HR team for further details (Email: hr.chem@ucl.ac.uk).
Successful applicants will be issued with an FTE-based PGTA contract. For more information please visit: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/human-resources/postgraduate-teaching-assistant-code-practice.
A CV containing the following information will be required:
1. Full name
2. Address
3. Date of birth
4. Academic Qualifications
5. National Insurance No. (if known)
6. Your Student registration number
7. Your areas of expertise
8. The name of your Supervisor
9. Month and year your postgraduate studies are due to finish if you complete and submit your thesis on time.
Please note, your Right to Work (i.e. passport) must be checked before you commence work. Please arrange with a member of the Chemistry HR team for verification of your Right to Work.
Applications are welcome at any time throughout the year but you cannot be considered for any paid employment within the department until you have applied and been accepted, and a contract has been set up.
Postdoctoral Research Vacancies
- Reseacrh Fellow in Amino Acid Building Block Synthesis
UCL Department / Division
Chemistry
Grade
7
Hours
Full Time
Salary
(inclusive of London allowance)£42,099 - £50,585 per annum
We are seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Researcher or an experienced graduate to join a research team to scale up the synthesis of four orthogonally protected amino acid building blocks at University College London.
In this project, you will develop synthetic routes and scale up the synthesis of four orthogonally protected amino acid building blocks for the solid-phase synthesis of lanthionine-bridged peptides. You will also carry out preliminary market research to establish the commercial prospects for these amino acids.
The work will be supervised by Prof. Alethea Tabor in the Department of Chemistry at UCL https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/11263-alethea-tabor
The post is funded for up to 5 months and the start date is 12/08/2024 or as soon as possible thereafter.
Key Requirements
You will have a PhD degree (or will have submitted your thesis prior to taking up the position) in Organic Chemistry or Chemical Biology. Candidates with a MSci/MChem/MSc in Chemistry with demonstrated expertise in scale-up synthesis, gained in an industrial setting, will also be considered. Prior experience in synthesis of protected amino acids, and/or of organic synthesis at multigram scale, is desirable.
Please note, appointment at Grade 7 is dependent upon having been awarded a PhD; if this is not the case, initial appointment will be at Research Assistant Grade 6B (salary £37,332 - £39,980 per annum, including London Allowance of £5,000 p.a.) with payment at Grade 7 being backdated to the date of final submission of the PhD thesis.
Further Details
A job description and Person Specification can be accessed at the bottom of this page.
To apply for the vacancy please click on the ‘Apply Now’ button below.
Please include a CV, list of publications and cover letter stating why you are interested in the position and how you meet the criteria.
For informal enquiries please contact Professor Alethea Tabor a.b.tabor@ucl.ac.uk. Any queries on the application process can be directed to H Dansey h.dansey@ucl.ac.uk, as we wish to encourage online applications.
We particularly welcome female applicants and those from an ethnic minority, as they are under-represented within UCL at this level
Closing Date 17:00 Wednesday 10th July 2024
Interviews will be held on Thursday 18th and Friday 19th July 2024
Our department holds an Athena SWAN Bronze award, which illustrates our commitment to addressing gender equality.
This appointment is subject to UCL Terms and Conditions of Service for Research and Support Staff.
Please use these links to find out more about the UCL Terms and Conditions related to this job, employee benefits that we offer and further information about UCL.- Research Fellow in Computational Chemistry and Machine Learning
UCL Department / Division
Chemistry
Hours
Full Time
Salary
(inclusive of London allowance)£42,099 - £50,585 per annum
Applications are invited for a Research Fellow to work in the group of Dr Tim Hele in the Department of Chemistry at University College London. The post is funded through an Enhancement Award to Dr Hele’s Royal Society University Research Fellowship Designer lighting: a radical approach to improve organic solar cells and light-emitting diodes. This proposal aims to design molecular emitters for organic light-emitting diodes with emission throughout the visible and infra-red, to model the non-adiabatic dynamics of such systems and to design molecules for singlet fission downconversion. There are further aims of using Machine Learning and AI to accurately and reliably predict the spectra of organic radicals containing a variety of heteroatoms to extend the computational methodology to systems with multiple unpaired electrons such as diradicals, and to simulate the emission mechanism of organic light-emitting diodes.
The appointment is available to start immediately and in the first instance runs until 30th September 2025. Subject to funding and funder approval it may be extended to a duration of up to 28 months.
Some parts of the role can be undertaken remotely if necessary and the postholder will be required to work onsite at least one day a week.
Key Requirements
The successful candidate will have a PhD degree (or be about to be awarded a PhD) in Chemistry, Physics, or similar subject. A knowledge of quantum mechanics and electronic structure theory, as well as using quantum chemical methods for excited state calculations is required, as well as experience with HPC and programming. Experience with python programming, radical electronic structure and non-adiabatic dynamics is desirable. They will be expected to work in a highly multidisciplinary collaborative team and have effective verbal and written communication skills in English.
Please note, appointment at Grade 7 is dependent upon having been awarded a PhD; if this is not the case, initial appointment will be at Research Assistant Grade 6B (salary £37,332 to £39,980 per annum) with payment at Grade 7 being backdated to the date of final submission of the PhD thesis.
Further Details
A Job Description and Person Specification can be accessed at the bottom of this page. Please include a publication list and a CV, along with a cover letter outlining why you are interested in the role, and which of the essential and desirable criteria you meet and how.
To apply for the vacancy please click on the 'Apply Now' button below.
Informal enquiries should be addressed to Dr Tim Hele (t.hele@ucl.ac.uk). Any queries on the application process can be directed to H Dansey – h.dansey@ucl.ac.uk.
We particularly welcome female applicants, applicants with disabilities and those from ethnic minorities
Closing Date
8th July 2024
Professional Services Vacancies
- Senior Student Advisor
UCL Department / Division
Chemistry
Grade
8
Hours
Full Time
Salary
(inclusive of London allowance)£51,747 - £60,521 per annum
Duties and Responsibilities
The Senior Student Advisor is a new role in the Chemistry Department Student Lifecycle and Support Team and will contribute to the work of the Departmental Teaching Committee as well as work and conversations in the faculty. The purpose of this role is to support the wellbeing of Chemistry students and to enhance their experience throughout the entire university lifecycle from pre-arrival to graduation, by providing key administration and education support activities. This role will provide effective, professional guidance and signposting to students on a range of issues relating to welfare, health, and support for academic progression. This role does not directly itself provide specialist practitioner support or clinically qualified treatment. An important part of this work will be to support the processes around Extenuating Circumstances, as part of Chemistry’s Departmental Extenuating Circumstances Panel, and Summary of Reasonable Adjustments (SORAs), working with academic colleagues and in partnership with SSW to establish reasonable and effective methods of support or academic adjustments for students in situations of difficulty or with complex circumstances, and to signpost and recommend to both internal and external specialist services and treatment providers where necessary. The role holder will also advise or lead on best practices and innovations to enhance the wider student support network and to create a welcoming environment for students in the department.
Key Requirements
We are looking for an individual who has experience of working in student facing roles, and of providing wellbeing support, but also one that can collate and analyse data to help develop strategic ways to support our students better by contributing to conversations across the faculty. We aim to recruit a candidate who has a genuine interest in student welfare, and who will enjoy being part of a highly dynamic Teaching and Learning team. The post-holder will have a good general education to Honours degree level or the equivalent with substantial knowledge of the HE sector, in particular student services management and administration, both undergraduate and graduate and both UK and International. The post-holder will have experience of enhancing engagement through training, feedback and focus groups. The post-holder will have excellent written and verbal communication skills and excellent interpersonal skills.
Further Details
A Job Description and Person Specification can be accessed at the bottom of this page.
To apply for the vacancy please click on the 'Apply Now' button below.
Informal enquiries related to the post or the application process should be directed to hr.chem@ucl.ac.uk as we wish to encourage online applications.
We particularly welcome female applicants and those from ethnic minorities, as they are under-represented within UCL at this level.
Closing Date
05 May 2024
Please use these links to find out more about the UCL Terms and Conditions related to this job, employee benefits that we offer and further information about UCL.
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