UK Research and Innovation

Operations

• Support ESRC internal communication channels, including ESRC News publishing and maintaining intranet content
• Support internal campaigns and engagement events covering training, line management, organisational change and strategy
• Support the ESRC corporate training programme by scheduling events, promoting activities, managing attendance and evaluation
• Provide interview support and manage unexpected on-the-day issues
• Maintain key Operations Team documentation
• Manage the shared mailbox and general operational queries
• Provide secretariat support, including meeting arrangements, agendas, papers and minutes
• Identify issues and trends and collaborate with ESRC, UKRI and UK Shared Business Service colleagues on continuous improvement
• Provide cover and business continuity for other team members' business-critical activities
• Act as a functional champion, such as Purchase Order champion
• Handle sensitive data and situations while delivering high-quality work
• Support strategic operational projects and respond to changing priorities and tight deadlines

Operations Officer

Threat Intelligence Specialist

• Identify real-world risks across diverse technical landscapes.
• Uncover security vulnerabilities and actively exploit findings.
• Assess additional impacts through post-exploitation.
• Provide proactive remediation advice to technical teams.
• Deliver penetration testing, including zero-knowledge network assessments, insider threat evaluations, credentialed application exploitation, and testing of human and physical security controls across the UKRI estate.
• Manage the external penetration testing call-off contract.
• Complete targeted penetration tests and red-team exercises.
• Develop and maintain offensive tooling to simulate adversary tactics and techniques.
• Monitor and analyse threat intelligence feeds for emerging threats and relevant TTPs.
• Produce technical threat reports and briefings.
• Conduct proactive threat hunting based on intelligence-led hypotheses and anomaly detection.
• Support risk assessments using offensive operations and threat landscape analysis.
• Collaborate with engineers, researchers, technologists, and federated Digital, Data and Technology teams.

Offensive Security and Threat Intelligence Specialist

Head of Department

• Lead and oversee the entire NERC Estates Transformation Programme
• Ensure alignment with the NERC Estates Strategy
• Translate organisational objectives into structured programmes with deliverables, schedules, dependencies and resource requirements
• Advocate for the programme and its benefits within UKRI and beyond
• Oversee programme governance, strategic risk management and assurance activities
• Set budgets and provide close financial tracking and assurance
• Own and maintain programme plans, risk registers, dashboards, decision logs and benefits information
• Engage senior stakeholders across NERC Centres and UKRI
• Ensure building safety information is collected, verified and accurately handed over to statutory duty holders in support of Golden Thread requirements
• Harmonise project interfaces with other estate-related workstreams
• Promote data-driven decision making and continuous improvement
• Prepare executive-level reports, briefing papers and updates
• Deputise for the Associate Director for Estates and Sustainability when required
• Work closely with NERC Head of Estates and Centre leads to ensure seamless delivery of business-as-usual and transformation activities

Head of Estates – Campus Development

Executive Assistant

• Provide comprehensive and proactive support to members of Research England's Senior Leadership Team
• Act as a key link between the Senior Leadership Team and teams across Research England
• Work with Executive Services colleagues to prepare senior leaders, optimize their time and focus on priorities
• Monitor upcoming issues and decisions, recognize urgent issues and escalate them appropriately
• Gather intelligence and conduct horizon scanning to keep senior leaders informed and effective
• Undertake and manage administrative support activities to high professional standards and within deadlines
• Manage diary planning, scheduling and travel arrangements for senior leaders
• Prioritize demands on senior leaders' time
• Monitor correspondence and emails, redirect queries or respond on behalf of senior leaders where appropriate
• Escalate issues and maintain accurate records and audit trails
• Interface with internal and external colleagues and stakeholders at all levels
• Build strong and trusted relationships with stakeholders

SDET

• Design, develop, maintain, and implement automated test solutions across multiple products and services
• Develop and maintain reusable test frameworks, tooling, and test assets
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and support continuous quality assurance
• Apply risk-based testing and manage quality risks
• Analyse requirements, user stories, designs, technical specifications, and business processes to define test approaches and coverage
• Design and implement functional, integration, system, exploratory, regression, performance, and non-functional testing
• Collaborate with developers, business analysts, product managers, and partners
• Investigate defects and quality issues and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Promote modern engineering and testing practices
• Contribute to testing standards, strategies, frameworks, and quality metrics
• Evaluate and adopt new testing tools, technologies, and approaches
• Coach, mentor, and support testers and team members

Operations Officer

Offensive Security and Threat Intelligence Specialist

Head of Estates – Campus Development

Executive Assistant

Senior Test Engineer