Research Culture and Evaluation Manager
| Posting date: | 11 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £38,784 to £46,049 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 January 2026 |
| Location: | Durham, County Durham, DH1 5LE |
| Company: | Durham University |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 25001683_1765454646 |
Summary
The Role
The Research Culture and Evaluation Manager will support the generation, delivery and evaluation of research culture activities across the Flourish at Durham portfolio, enabling colleagues to thrive and flourish. The post-holder will work within the research culture team and in collaboration with other key units such as the Researcher Development team in the Durham Centre for Academic Development (DCAD) and the EDI Team to:
· Support the development, communication and implementation of the University's new Charter for Researchers alongside the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers;
· Enable the implementation, data analysis and evaluation of research culture initiatives and actions in academic departments and university research institutes;
· Work across academic departments and professional services directorates to support the joined-up approach to enabling research ambition, with a particular focus on early and mid-career research culture development;
· Embed evaluation into research culture activities across Flourish at Durham;
· Contribute to both internal and external networks that enable research culture progress and undertake professional development and good practice exchange in research and innovation culture.
We believe this role presents an excellent opportunity for candidates to develop a career in research and innovation culture. We welcome applications from individuals with strong transferable skills and experience from different careers and sectors, potentially in organisational change, researcher or research development, or data analysis and evaluation methods. You may have worked in research administration for a number of years and be looking for another opportunity. You may have recently finished a PhD or postdoctoral role and wish to explore career paths beyond academia. You may work outside of HE but have experience of organisational change or people development. We welcome applications from individuals who feel they meet the essential criteria below, regardless of background or experience.
The base location for this role is Boldon House, our exciting new professional services hub. Boldon House is situated on the outskirts of Durham near the Arnison Centre in Pity Me. Boldon House brings a number of professional services teams together in a vibrant office environment which supports collaborative working and is designed to embrace hybrid working. To find out more, visit the project webpage: .
Further information about the role and the responsibilities is at the bottom of this job description.
Working arrangements
This role is fulltime (35 hours/week) but we will consider requests for flexible working arrangements including potential job shares. It is expected that this role will be predominantly face-to-face on campus, and the successful applicant will be prepared to locate to the northeast of England. There will be some scope for hybrid working arrangements in agreement with line manager, but this post will not be fully remote.
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