Total 21 job vacancies by Swansea University

This is a Fixed Term role until August 2025 working full-time

We are inviting you to apply for an exciting position within our Population, Psychiatry, Suicide and Informatics (PPSI) team. The role offers unique opportunities to contribute to cutting-edge mental health research led by Prof. Ann John, co-director of DATAMIND and leader of the Data Science theme at the Wolfson Centre for Young People’s Mental Health.

The successful applicant will be responsible for completing the mental health data landscape across the 4 nations, working closely with Prof. Ann John and the DATAMIND Programme Manager and external stakeholders as part of other UK wide initiatives.

If you are passionate about mental health, we are inviting you to submit an application for this position. It is anticipated that the successful applicant will be offered the role on an internal secondment basis.

About The Role
Student Partnership and Engagement Services is seeking a dynamic and creative individual to join the team and help lead impactful student communications.

The primary aim of the role is to develop and create dynamic and engaging content for students at Swansea University, across a wide range of platforms. The post holder will be skilled in editing, creating, and delivering relevant and high-quality communications to a wide audience.

Working in partnership with the Students’ Union, Faculties, Professional Services and Academies the Officer will help to enable the University to deliver on its commitment to working with students as partners and to deliver an exceptional student experience.

The post will include:
• Creating and delivering communications plans for significant activities in the student journey.
• Developing relationships with other stakeholders across the University to create a communications community and the sharing of best practice.
• Managing and maintaining content calendars, using analytics tools to monitor engagement and undertaking competitor analysis to ensure student communications are forward-thinking and impactful for Swansea University.
• Helping to manage and deliver University-wide student communications campaigns such as the National Student Survey and other student engagement activity and feedback.
• The management and motivation of a small team responsible for delivering communications and campaigns.

The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills and experience in motivating stakeholders. Responsible for protecting our reputation and identity, the role requires a keen eye for detail and strong editing and copywriting abilities.

Applications for this role will take the format of a CV submission and cover letter.

This is a Fixed Term post until December 2025 working full-time.

The purpose of the role is to support Swansea University’s role within the Dementias Platform UK (DPUK) collaboration, a £53 million pound public-private Medical Research Council funded endeavour to create a wide reaching and innovative dementias research facility, incorporating different research disciplines from stem-cell research to data analysis. DPUK is a world leading resource for person focussed dementias research designed to fast-track scientific knowledge, treatments and the prevention of the disease. Over the past couple of years, DPUKs neuroimaging collection has rapidly grown, as well as project applications to use this data. This has meant we have had to develop processes and tools to be able to support the provision and analysis of this data.

We are seeking a data scientist to actively contribute to the development of the Dementias Platform UK (DPUK) neuroimaging data collection and groundbreaking research. This post is for a role to contribute to the implementation of neuroimaging processes within the DPUK Data Portal, to support neuroimaging data management such as anonymisation and standardisation, the development and improvement of our big data infrastructure and tools, as well as contributing to research activities.

Please don't rule yourself out if you don’t meet all of the criteria. We are looking for someone who is eager with a diverse skill set. The criteria describes the type of person we believe we need. You may have a skillset or experience that we hadn’t considered.

This is a Fixed Term position for 3 years working 35 hours per week.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead initiatives that directly impact mental health services and improve outcomes for individuals in need. This role will also contribute to other projects within the Population, Psychiatry, Suicide and Informatics (PPSI) team, leveraging your expertise to enhance overall outcomes.

As the Project Manager for the Data & Digital workstream, you will play a crucial role within a dynamic mental health research team that has secured over £40M in funding. You will collaborate closely with partners at Manchester and King’s College London, and others across the UK, driving projects focused on data and digital solutions to identify shared care records and infrastructure that link data across primary and secondary care, as well as other mental health services. Your efforts will aim to improve patient recruitment for clinical trials while ensuring project objectives are met within set timelines and budgets. You will work alongside a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders across the four nations to oversee multi-partner initiatives that enhance research and ultimately improve the population's mental health.

Join us and be at the forefront of impactful mental health research!

Swansea University is a research-led university that has been making a difference since 1920. The University community thrives on exploration and discovery and offers the right balance of excellent teaching and research, matched by an enviable quality of life.

Our stunning waterfront campuses and multicultural community make us a desirable workplace for colleagues from around the world. Our reward and benefits, and ways of working enable those who join us to have enriching careers, matched by an excellent work-life balance.

About The Role:

The School of Social Sciences at Swansea University is looking to appoint a Tutor to work flexibly across the disciplines in the Department of Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy. This role will involve coordination, administrative, and pastoral responsibilities, and a commitment to student recruitment initiatives (including staffing Open Days).

Other key responsibilities for this role will involve teaching and marking on allocated undergraduate and post graduate modules within the Department of Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy.

We are looking for an inspirational team-player who can contribute to the University and School’s ambitions to be at the forefront of digitally-enhanced learning, helping to build on the School’s excellent student experience record.

Swansea University is a research-led university that has been making a difference since 1920. The University community thrives on exploration and discovery and offers the right balance of excellent teaching and research, matched by an enviable quality of life.

Our stunning waterfront campuses and multicultural community make us a desirable workplace for colleagues from around the world. Our reward and benefits, and ways of working enable those who join us to have enriching careers, matched by an excellent work-life balance.

We’re recruiting a research associate for a Welsh Government grant identifying climate change education curricula in alternative education settings

We have received funding through a SMART partnership from Welsh Government to look at climate change education in Additional Learning Needs settings in Wales.

You will work with Swansea University and the Eco-schools programme through Keep Wales Tidy to identify and document best practice climate change education initiatives within special schools and pupil referral units across Wales.

You will visit special schools and PRUs across South Wales to meet with teachers and learners to gather information to meet the project objectives, which are:
• The identification and collation of existing exemplary practice of environmental and CCSE in ALN Settings and alternative provision settings across Wales, using the Keep Wales Tidy network and links to appropriate educational settings.
• Supporting the dissemination of these examples of exemplary practice across educational settings throughout Wales, through the Keep Wales Tidy network.
• The completion of a mapping and gapping exercise, to identify the gaps in current knowledge and availability of appropriate resources to support environmental and CCSE in ALN Settings and alternative provision settings and across the spectrum of additional learning needs.
• To liaise with key stakeholders within the ALN Settings and alternative provision sector to ensure that the educational resources created can be informed, developed and refined by educational practice.
This position will provide you with the opportunity to conduct academic research and build knowledge and expertise in two key areas –
i) enhanced knowledge of climate change and sustainability education and ii) enhanced knowledge of working with learners with a range of additional learning needs.

This offers you the potential to develop as the first practitioner in Wales with specialist knowledge of both climate change and CCSE and supporting, designing and delivering resources for learners with additional learning needs.

This is a Fixed Term role until 30 September 2025 , working full-time (35 hours per week)

The Department of Social Work is a reputed provider of pre and post qualifying social work education and research. Located within the School of Health and Social Care at Swansea University, the department is dedicated to the provision of high quality inclusive social work education and to working in partnership with students, citizens, Social Care Wales and our Local Authority partner organisations.

This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who is an experienced fluent Welsh speaker, with a professional background in social work and training. The main role will involve teaching, assessing and supporting Welsh language students and help to strengthen the links between our various programmes of study and our key stakeholders via the Welsh language. The post-holder will work collaboratively with the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and the University in adhering to the Welsh language strategy and help achieve the targets set for Welsh-medium provision and students electing to study through the medium of Welsh within this subject.
The post-holder will be a part of a wider community of academic staff at Swansea and throughout Wales who are working towards growing the Welsh language as a medium of teaching and research within the Department of Social Work

Swansea University is a research-led university that has been making a difference since 1920. The University community thrives on exploration and discovery and offers the right balance of excellent teaching and research, matched by an enviable quality of life.

Our stunning waterfront campuses and multicultural community make us a desirable workplace for colleagues from around the world. Our reward and benefits, and ways of working enable those who join us to have enriching careers, matched by an excellent work-life balance.

ABOUT THE ROLE
We have 2 full-time positions available for a 12 month Fixed Term contract.

To achieve its sustainable top 30 ambition, Swansea University needs a professional services workforce with the differentiated skills necessary to ensure excellence through efficient and effective systems and processes that harness technological innovations.

The UKSeRP (UK Secure Research Platform) is a technology set developed by the Population Data Science group at Swansea University Medical School. Swansea University works with organisations in the UK and globally to pool knowledge and experience around the platform to facilitate the storage and secure access to research datasets to assist research activity.

Following the success of the SAIL databank, the infrastructure used to provide it was identified as suitable to host datasets for other research groups within Swansea. Following interest from organisations in Australia and Canada, implementation exists in 2 locations outside the UK.

In this role, you will:

Work as a member of the Innovation Team to deliver strategic projects, supporting our migration to Kubernetes.
Gain deeper experience in GitOps deployment strategies.
Work with senior team members to design, build, and deploy CI/CD pipelines to facilitate the work of our development team.
Have the opportunity to learn and use many cutting-edge technologies as we explore their adoption.
Use your knowledge of Python to implement and refactor Airflow DAGs to handle the data lifecycle within UKSeRP.

EQUALITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
The University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity in all its practices and activities. We aim to establish an inclusive environment and welcome diverse applications from the following protected characteristics: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (including colour, nationality, ethnic and national origin), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation.

As an inclusive and welcoming workplace, we value people for their skills regardless of their background. Applications are welcome in Welsh and will not be treated less favourably than those submitted in English.

WELSH LANGUAGE SKILLS
The Welsh language level required for this role is Level 1 - A little. The role holder will be able to pronounce Welsh words, answer the phone in Welsh (good morning/afternoon) and use very basic everyday words and phrases (thank you, please etc.). Level 1 can be reached by completing a 1 hour course.

The University is a proud bilingual institution, our Welsh Language Strategy outlines our aspiration to promote the language and enable our staff to engage with the language as an additional workplace skill and as a gateway to new cultural and social opportunities. Applications are welcome in Welsh and will not be treated less favourably than those submitted in English. Welsh speakers have the right to an interview in Welsh. Applicants for a role where Welsh skills are essential are expected to present their application in Welsh and will be interviewed in Welsh, if shortlisted.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Applications for this role will take the format of a CV submission and cover letter.

This is an exciting opportunity for you to become part of the Future Student Experience Team at Swansea University, acting as the first point of contact for prospective students and their influencers, and providing excellent customer service and experience across a range of enquiry channels. The post-holder will play a key role in supporting our Future Students through their applicant journey, from initial enquiry and application through to enrolment and induction.

We are seeking pro-active, dynamic, and friendly team players who are passionate about service excellence and customer focused support within a busy team environment.

As an Enquiries Assistant, you will develop a detailed and up-to-date knowledge of Swansea University, its courses, and programmes, and of admissions processes and supporting systems, enabling personalised and responsive resolutions to a variety of enquiries and themes. You will also support the smooth referral and escalation of more complex enquiries, through effective teamworking with colleagues, managers, and related functions across the University.

This post will be based at CERN, Switzerland. An overseas allowance (of 40% of salary) will be made in addition to salary for this role.

The ALPHA collaboration at CERN synthesises and traps antihydrogen for precision tests of fundamental symmetry. The collaboration is world leading in precision spectroscopy and gravitational studies of antihydrogen. Following a major upgrade to the frequency metrology instrumentation in ALPHA, the aim is now to achieve or surpass the precision of spectroscopy in ordinary hydrogen. Swansea University is a founding member and a major stakeholder in the collaboration.

The successful candidate will join the Swansea team at CERN and will become a full member of the ALPHA collaboration. The Department of Physics has four permanent academic staff members, three post-doctoral staff and four PhD students actively contributing to the ALPHA project at CERN. The length of this fixed-term role can be extended beyond the initial period subject to available funding and performance.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
The University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity in all its practices and activities. We aim to establish an inclusive environment and welcome diverse applications from the following protected characteristics: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (including colour, nationality, ethnic and national origin), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation.

As an inclusive and welcoming workplace, we value people for their skills regardless of their background. Applications are welcome in Welsh and will not be treated less favourably than those submitted in English.

Welsh Language Skills
The Welsh language level required for this role is Level 1 - A little. The role holder will be able to pronounce Welsh words, answer the phone in Welsh (good morning/afternoon) and use very basic everyday words and phrases (thank you, please etc.). Level 1 can be reached by completing a 1 hour course.

The University is a proud bilingual institution, our Welsh Language Strategy outlines our aspiration to promote the language and enable our staff to engage with the language as an additional workplace skill and as a gateway to new cultural and social opportunities. Applications are welcome in Welsh and will not be treated less favourably than those submitted in English. Welsh speakers have the right to an interview in Welsh. Applicants for a role where Welsh skills are essential are expected to present their application in Welsh and will be interviewed in Welsh, if shortlisted.

Additional Information
Applications for this role will take the format of a CV submission and cover letter.

We have 3 Fixed Term position until March 2026. These are a combination of Research Assistant and Research Officer positions, you will be appointed to the role most suitable for you.

The successful applicants will be based in a thriving mental health research team with over £40M in joint funding over the last five years, where you will be able to learn new skills and will be supported throughout your career development. You will apply your research, analytical and/or programming expertise to answer mental health related questions. Your work will result in the publication of research findings as policy briefings and high-impact journal papers.

The team is led by Prof. Ann John and focuses on child and adolescent mental health and suicide and self-harm prevention. Prof. Ann John is chair of the National Advisory Group on suicide and self-harm prevention to Welsh Government, member of SAGE, Trustee of the Samaritans. She is also co-director of DATAMIND, Principle Investigator of the National Centre for Mental Health (NCMH), leads the Data Science theme in the Wolfson Centre for Young People’s Mental Health, focussing on reducing anxiety and depression in young people and also co-leads the Data and Digital theme of the Mental Health Mission that aims at enabling data and digital technologies to be used efficiently and consistently in the development and evaluation of new treatments for mental health disorders.


You will join Prof. John’s team and work with data resources such as the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) Databanks at Swansea University. SAIL is a research Centre of Excellence that brings together a breadth of multi-disciplinary partners through catalytic collaboration. It is a safe haven for billions of person-based records, spanning up to 20 years from the entire population of Wales, which enables researchers to answer important questions for the benefit of society.

The post-holder will have a background in clinical epidemiology and/or health data science and have enthusiasm and aptitude for working with mental health related data. Preferably, you will be experienced in the use of large relational databases through SQL, be fluent in a programming language such as R, Stata or Python, and have knowledge of routine big data such as GP records and hospital admissions.

Swansea University is a research-led university that has been making a difference since 1920. The University community thrives on exploration and discovery and offers the right balance of excellent teaching and research, matched by an enviable quality of life.

Our stunning waterfront campuses and multicultural community make us a desirable workplace for colleagues from around the world. Our reward and benefits, and ways of working enable those who join us to have enriching careers, matched by an excellent work-life balance.

ABOUT THE ROLE
Swansea University seek an experienced and ethical fundraising professional with the ability to lead a growing philanthropy team and personally manage and develop relationships with a portfolio of major donors and charitable trusts/foundations.

Working closely with the Associate Director of Development and Alumni Relations and the Head of Development and Engagement, the successful candidate will be an ambitious, self-motivated, and personable team player. We are looking for an individual with outstanding communication skills and the ability to enthusiastically communicate the impact of philanthropy to a range of audiences.

You will be a supportive and empowering line manager who leads by example, and helps upholds our team culture of integrity, positivity, and kindness.

EQUALITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
The University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity in all its practices and activities. We aim to establish an inclusive environment and welcome diverse applications from the following protected characteristics: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (including colour, nationality, ethnic and national origin), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation.

As an inclusive and welcoming workplace, we value people for their skills regardless of their background. Applications are welcome in Welsh and will not be treated less favourably than those submitted in English.

The Infrastructure Technician assists with the day-to-day operation, security and delivery of our infrastructure services, developing and supporting products and services that are efficient, secure, perform optimally and are aligned to business goals and objectives. The post holder is responsible for assisting with the maintenance of configuration data, capacity planning, service availability and continuity.

They will adhere to service levels and all operational processes (such as incident, problem, change management processes) pertaining to end user compute services. The post holder will assist in supporting the 1st and 2nd line teams in providing end user support to the university (comprising student, staff and guests), and participate in continuous improvement analysis and design, as well as the development of infrastructure-based solutions and delivery.

The role will play an important part in assisting with the implementation of target state architectures by following coherent solution designs, Reference Architectures, Patterns and Standards and Roadmaps in close collaboration with the Cloud, Compute & Storage Manager and the Lead Infrastructure Architect

EQUALITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
The University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity in all its practices and activities. We aim to establish an inclusive environment and welcome diverse applications from the following protected characteristics: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (including colour, nationality, ethnic and national origin), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation.

As an inclusive and welcoming workplace, we value people for their skills regardless of their background. Applications are welcome in Welsh and will not be treated less favourably than those submitted in English.

We have an under-representation of women and ethnic minority colleagues in Digital Services and would particularly encourage applications from these groups. Appointments will always be made on merit.

Digital Services are going through a rapid period of transformation and reimagining our IT Service Desk provision to meet the challenges of supporting and enabling a wider £20m investment in IT Services (in areas such as Cyber Security and Networking) will be a key foundational element.

The vision will be to reconnect our IT support provision with our customer’s needs, professionalise our services, save us all time and bridge the capability gaps we have.

The Service Desk team are the public face of Digital Services and will set standards in customer advocacy and engagement. Offering specialist support, advice and owning the resolution of Incidents and Problems for customers in a timely and efficient manner will be the cornerstones in achieving our vision.

As a 2nd Line IT Service Desk Technician specialising in AV Support, you will play a key role in delivering a customer-focused, professional AV support service.

Using your experience and skills (as well as those of your teammates and wider IT Services colleagues) to deal with incidents across the IT and AV landscape, will be the challenge to rise to in this role.

Fixed term contract up to 31/12/2024

The Academic Partnerships Department supports the University and Faculties in developing and managing teaching and learning partnerships with education institutions and organisations in the UK and internationally. With the University’s focus on expanding its transnational education offering (Swansea University education delivered internationally at partner institutions), the work of the Department and the number and scale of projects has increased significantly. This role will involve providing administrative support to project teams including specific administrative functions necessary to ensure the effective set up and operation of collaborative partnerships, and duties associated with the management and operation of the office. The successful candidate will be required to manage partnership records; provide support with meeting organisation, minute-taking, production of reports and follow up activities as well as partnership specific activities like quality assurance monitoring, manage the day-to-day activities of the Department, including acting as the main point of contact for enquiries and undertake financial duties as required.

The post holder will be expected to be competent in Microsoft applications, MS Teams, SharePoint, databases, and financial management systems. The post holder will be expected to have suitable experience in a similar role and be familiar with processes of the University or similar organisations. Excellent communication skills including the ability to liaise with senior University staff and external bodies will be essential to this role.

EQUALITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
The University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity in all its practices and activities. We aim to establish an inclusive environment and welcome diverse applications from the following protected characteristics: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (including colour, nationality, ethnic and national origin), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation.

As an inclusive and welcoming workplace, we value people for their skills regardless of their background. Applications are welcome in Welsh and will not be treated less favourably than those submitted in English.

WELSH LANGUAGE SKILLS
The Welsh language level required for this role is Level 1 - A little. The role holder will be able to pronounce Welsh words, answer the phone in Welsh (good morning/afternoon) and use very basic everyday words and phrases (thank you, please etc.). Level 1 can be reached by completing a 1 hour course.

The University is a proud bilingual institution, our Welsh Language Strategy outlines our aspiration to promote the language and enable our staff to engage with the language as an additional workplace skill and as a gateway to new cultural and social opportunities. Applications are welcome in Welsh and will not be treated less favourably than those submitted in English. Welsh speakers have the right to an interview in Welsh. Applicants for a role where Welsh skills are essential are expected to present their application in Welsh and will be interviewed in Welsh, if shortlisted.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Applications for this role will take the format of a CV submission and cover letter.

Please ensure you address how you meet the person specification as detailed in the job description by highlighting your relevant qualifications, skills and experience in a cover letter.