Are you an experienced project manager looking to utilise your skills to help us improve understanding of adolescent mental health?

The SCAMP team are looking for a driven and self-starting Project Manager to provide overarching research support for an ambitious and exciting new 5-year programme of work investigating adolescent mental health, following a UKRI MRC grant funding extension worth £2.4m.

Launched in 2014, SCAMP (Study of Cognition, Adolescents and Mobile Phones) is a major prospective cohort study, following secondary school pupils across London from Year 7 (ages 11-12) through to early adulthood to investigate whether use of mobile phones and other wireless technologies affect young people’s neurocognitive, behavioural and mental health outcomes.

For more information on the SCAMP study please visit www.scampstudy.org

Duties and responsibilities

You will have a key role in helping the PI and researchers deliver the SCAMP research programme and support the wider Mohn Centre for Children’s Health & Wellbeing. You’ll be making a real difference to scientific understanding of adolescent mental health, which will contribute to improving quality of life for young people.

Your key responsibilities include;

• Project management of the SCAMP research programme
• Coordinating and supporting funding applications.
• Being the first point of contact in interactions with external partners and stakeholders.
• Helping to draft scientific and policy reports, grant applications and presentations
• Prepare and input to grant reporting

Essential requirements

You will have MSc or PhD level qualifications in a scientific discipline preferably relevant to the objectives of the research programme and demonstrated skills and experience in administration and project management with strong financial skills. You should have experience in report writing including identifying and editing appropriate scientific, descriptive and financial information from diverse sources as well as reports for e.g. ISAB and the funders.

Further Information

The position is offered on a full time and fixed term basis for 12 months in the first instance.

For any specific queries regarding the post please contact Dr Steven Shen - chen.shen@imperial.ac.uk

A DBS check will be required due to working in/with schools.

As this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, at the appropriate level, will be required for the successful candidate.

For technical issues when applying online please email recruitment@imperial.ac.uk

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Imperial College is committed to equality of opportunity, to eliminating discrimination and to creating an inclusive working environment. We are an Athena SWAN Silver award winner, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident Employer and work in partnership with GIRES to promote respect for trans people.

Closing date: 26 January 2021

To apply, visit www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs and search by the job reference MED02183.