Nutrition OfficerUniversity

About the Role

We are seeking a Nutrition Officer to contribute to and support the delivery of high-quality research and policy development for the UK and internationally on salt, sugar, fat and calorie reduction initiatives. You will provide technical support and enable team to efficiently carry out their salt, sugar, fat and calorie research projects, involving nutrition data collection, data analysis, interpretation, reporting, dissemination, and stakeholder engagement. Your work will potentially help shape the development of future public health nutrition policies in the UK.

About You

Candidates must have an undergraduate or postgraduate degree with training in quantitative data analysis (or equivalent experience), excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office software, and be interested in nutrition as a way to improve public health. Physical presence and residence in the UK are essential for this role.

Experience of using statistical software (including R, Stata, SAS, or SPSS) would be an advantage. The successful candidate will have excellent analytical, administration and organisational skills.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project

The Research and Action on Salt and Obesity (RASO) Unit, based within the Centre for Public Health and Policy, works nationally and internationally to develop, implement, and evaluate evidence-based public health policies to reduce salt, sugar, and saturated fat consumption across the whole population. The Unit is currently led by Dr Kawther Hashem.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

£33,263 to £40,015 per annum (pro rata)