UE07: £40,247 Per Annum Pro Rata (£22.11 per hour)
Edinburgh Earth Initiative, Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability
Part Time, 9 hours per week
Fixed-term for six months from February 2025
The Centre of African Studies, in collaboration with colleagues from Edinburgh Earth Initiative (EEI), are looking for a postgraduate or PhD student to contribute to supporting the 2025 Annual Conference of the Centre of African Studies, named ‘Climate Dynamics and the Politics of a Post-Carbon Africa.’ The project aims to create a briefing pack for conference participants and speakers, support online and on-campus events to promote the conference, and create a report that maps out the key themes of the conference and use these as the starting point to identify pathways for climate action in Africa.
Click here to view the full project brief for the Earth Fellow: post-carbon Africa conference, including key tasks and deliverables (opens browser in new tab).
Click here to view the general Earth Fellow job description (opens browser in new tab). Please refer to both the project brief and job description when outlining your skills and experience in your application.
This post will be appointed at Grade UE07, step 1 which is £40,247 Per Annum Pro Rata (£22.11 per hour)
Your skills and attributes for success:
• Current University of Edinburgh PhD or postgraduate student in the academic year ‘24/’25.
• An interest in sustainable energy transitions in Africa, especially in a socio-technical and political context.
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to communicate complex information clearly, both in writing and in oral presentations.
• Ability to assimilate information from multiple sources and report on it effectively.
• Ability to work proactively with colleagues and external collaborators with a variety of expertise; understanding and valuing different points of view and building consensus.
• Some experience with academic conferences, either as a contributor or organiser.
As an Earth Fellow, you will be joining a diverse, fun and dynamic team of researchers, students and staff all working together to address the global climate emergency. As part of the Earth Fellows programme, you will have access to co-working space, exciting networking and personal development opportunities and opportunities to contribute towards partnerships and solutions for climate change on a global scale.
Earth Fellows work on individual and team-based projects which contribute to the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Earth Initiative’s work on climate change research-led impact, innovation, engagement, and teaching.
As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work alongside the Edinburgh Earth Initiative team and Earth Fellows community which includes undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students as well as the wider student community, academics, professional services, and global partners working on climate and environmental change. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success.
You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Click to access our staff benefits page (opens new browser tab) for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
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Key dates to note
Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.
Interviews will be held during mid-January 2025.
On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
