Enterprise and External Engagement - Grade 6
Example job roles: Technician, Research Technician, Junior Engineer
Level: Developing/SkilledÌý
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. Ìý
- 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 objectivesÌý
- 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 practiceÌý
- Hold responsibility for supervision of teams while also managing workloads and priorities.Ìý
- 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 tasksÌý
- Take on a specific role within a research project
- Develop a level of expertise in a specific area
Learning from othersÌýÌý
- Shadow senior members of the team in the working environment
- Undertake coaching and Ìýmentoring 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)
- °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Leadership and/or Management trainingÌý
- Soft skills training ÌýPost-graduate qualification
- Apply for training through a mid-career apprenticeship programme
- Sector relevant training in standards, guidelines, ethics
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Transferable skills and competencies
°×С½ãÂÛ̳ uses the Universal Competency Framework (UCF) to discuss transferable skills. Find out moreÌýdetails 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
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Writing and reporting
- Writing correctly
- Writing clearly and fluently
- Writing in an expressive and engaging style
- Targeting communication.
°×С½ãÂÛ̳ Ways of Working
These describe expected behaviours in line with °×С½ãÂÛ̳ culture and values.Ìý For Ways of Working indicators and steps to development please refer to theÌýWays of Working website.Ìý
4 January 2024
“Career Pathway roles are indicative and are not intended to be a description of the role in terms of responsibilty and duties.
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Louise Rayner
Director, Archaeology South-East, °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Institute of Archaeology
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