Enterprise and External Engagement - Grade 6

Experiences

Activities and responsibilities likely to be required when working at this level

Health & Safety responsibilities

• Liaise with suppliers and manufacturers to resolve simple problems
• With the senior staff, establish and maintain a safe/compliant working environment
• Assist/complete and update routine safety paperwork (dependant on the risk owner)
• Hold specific safety responsibilities dependent on individual department specialisms/needs.  
• Organise and complete compliance tasks
• Maintain up-to-date health and safety knowledge, providing support and advice to others

Core responsibilities

• Ensure effective delivery of objectives by planning and managing own workload
• Assist the senior lead with the day-to-day running and supervision of laboratory spaces
• Allocate work to one or more members of technical staff
• Work collaboratively to deliver objectives 
• Contribute to progress and management meetings
• Manage a small budget, monitoring resource usage and maintaining supplies of key items
• Assist with stores operations including ordering, receiving, processing, and distributing goods
• Source and negotiate with suppliers for routine items
• Provide a high standard of research support, including contributing to reports and publications
• Provide a high standard of teaching support, including preparing for classes and field work
• Support team/project/event by contributing to experimental design and data acquisition
• Update and deliver local inductions
• Provide training and demonstrations of specialist expertise, techniques and equipment
• Share skills and best practice 
• Hold responsibility for supervision of teams while also managing workloads and priorities. 
• Writing and publishing reports and papers

Personal and professional development

Development options to consider when working towards this level

Learning on the job

• Seek out secondment opportunities
• Leadership responsibility for short term cover during periods of annual leave
• Refine writing skills to advanced level
• Develop high level analytical skills on more complex datasets
• Take on responsibility for more complex tasks 
• Take on a specific role within a research project
• Develop a level of expertise in a specific area

Learning from others  

• Shadow senior members of the team in the working environment
• Undertake coaching and  mentoring opportunities
• Speak/present at public outreach events
• Seek feedback on all aspects of work and use constructively
• Join special interest groups, and/or network groups to learn about best practice in about other organisations and sectors
• Join a Community of Practice
• Attend conferences

Formal learning

• Accreditation/certification from a recognised Professional body e.g CIfA (Chartered institute for Chartered Institute for Archaeologists for Archaeology-specific roles)
• UCL Leadership and/or Management training 
• Soft skills training  Post-graduate qualification
• Apply for training through a mid-career apprenticeship programme
• Sector relevant training in standards, guidelines, ethics
   

Transferable skills and competencies

UCL uses the Universal Competency Framework (UCF) to discuss transferable skills. Find out more details on the framework.

Applying expertise and technology

• Applying technical expertise
• Building technical expertise
• Sharing expertise
• Using technology resources
• Demonstrating physical and manual skills
• Demonstrating cross-functional awareness
• Demonstrating spatial awareness

Presenting and communicating information

• Speaking fluently
• Explaining concepts and opinions
• Articulating key points of an argument. Presenting and public speaking
• Projecting credibility
• Responding to an audience
   

Writing and reporting

• Writing correctly
• Writing clearly and fluently
• Writing in an expressive and engaging style
• Targeting communication.

UCL Ways of Working

These describe expected behaviours in line with UCL culture and values.  For Ways of Working indicators and steps to development please refer to the Ways of Working website.