Research Administrator: Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP)

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The opportunity

UAL’s newly established Centre and Institute Operations Service seeks to recruit an experienced and proactive administrator to join the team on a part-time basis. The successful candidate will be specifically assigned to support Crative Research into Sound Arts Practice research centre (CRiSAP) based at London College of Communication (LCC), working with the Centre Manager, Director, and other colleagues to deliver its diverse portfolio of activities.   

CRiSAP is a research centre dedicated to the exploration of the rich complexities of sound as an artistic practice. Their main aim is to extend the development of the emerging disciplinary field of sound arts and to encourage the broadening and deepening of the discursive context in which sound arts is practiced. 

About you

To succeed in this role, you will have excellent planning and organisation skills. You will be reliable and pride yourself on delivering high quality work, on time with excellent attention to detail. 

You will be motivated, hardworking and diligent, able to work independently across multiple long-form projects using your initiative and creative problem solving skills, prioritising tasks when needed to deliver on time.

Excellent verbal and written skills are paramount, alongside the ability to work collaboratively as part of a team.  

You will have experience of working in an administrative or production role with communications and events experience, preferably within the creative industries or creative research. 

A knowledge and understanding of sound arts, practice-based research or another creative subject area is desirable. 

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

Our culture

We have become one of the world’s most international Universities, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. And, as a global university, staff and students learn from different cultures and perspectives, which leads to new conversations and innovative work. At our very core, everything we do seeks to challenge the status quo by driving social purpose and standing up for what matters.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds including those who may feel underrepresented in the workforce due to their socioeconomic circumstances such as those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) backgrounds. We aim to be a university where everyone can be themselves and are supported to reach their full potential.

With our commitment to inclusion and diversity, we are proud to be a Race Equality Charter (REC) member to help us reduce barriers that negatively impacts B.A.M.E. staff, a Stonewall Diversity Champion to ensure all LGBTQ+ people are valued at work, a Disability Confident Scheme Committed employer and member of the Business Disability Forum which help us to improve the lives of disabled people in the workplace.

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