SKETCH Project Coordinator at Queen Mary University of London
Job Description
About the Role
The post-holder will be a member of the Faculty Education team but will work within the School of History (SoH) responsible and accountable for managing relationships with external organisations and coordinating the pillar within the School. They will work closely with the SKETCH Manager, the School’s Academic Directors and the Business Development Team to help set up, coordinate and support the running of the SoH SKETCH pillar.
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In addition, the post-holder will provide a link between (SoH), the Faculty and other SKETCH pillars, to better enable interdisciplinary projects, impact evaluation and the sharing of best practice across schools.
The postholders may be required to coordinate SKETCH activity within other schools as requested by the SKETCH Manager where necessary and appropriate.
About the School/Department/Institute/Project
The SKETCH programme (Student Knowledge Exchange Through Community Hubs) is Queen Mary’s student knowledge exchange programme. It provides pro bono support to local individuals, businesses, entrepreneurs and social enterprises through activities such as workshops, training, advisory clinics and consultancy-style projects. These activites are delivered by Queen Mary students under the supervision of qualified professionals volunteering their time.
SKETCH brings together student knowledge exchange projects from across the university and is currently comprised of seven‘pillars’, including qLegal, QM Legal Advice Centre, the Student Consultancy Project, qNomics, qTech, QM Social Venture Fund and qHeritage. The programme aims to to expand to provide more opportunities for students, and in particular to deliver more interdisciplinary projects so students across schools collaborate to meet a client’s needs.
This role has responsibility for the new SKETCH pillar qHeritage and will work closely with the SKETCH Manager and the Academic Directors for the pillar. qHeritage provides bespoke services to support heritage, public history and community organizations, while offering QMUL students a unique opportunity to gain experience of working in the heritage sector. The pillar supports the employability of our students by developing transferable skills, knowledge and access to professional networks. The role supports the Academic Directors to run interdisciplinary projects engaging the local community
About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.
Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.
We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.
when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.
Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, campus facilities and flexible working arrangements.
Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.