Location: SAMS, Oban Contract Type: Fixed-Term – 12 months – candidates must be able to start by early-October 2025 Working Pattern: Full Time (37hrs per week) Salary Range: £31,396 - £34,980 per annum Closing date: 12th August 2025 The Role You will support the Lead Principal Investigator in delivering the Global Centre on Biodiversity for Climate (GCBC) Global Seaweed-SUPERSTAR grant, with a specific focus on WP3 (Task 3.4): Upscaling seaweed protection and restoration and identifying sustainable financial solutions. The role will involve conducting a comprehensive assessment on financial mechanisms that could be used to fund the expansion of seaweed protection and restoration globally, contributing to the UN Seaweed Breakthrough and other high-quality research outputs, including a policy brief, and leading the publication of findings in high-impact journals. You will also represent SAMS at an international workshop in Indonesia in 2026. See project details here: https://globalseaweed.org/ Our Ideal Candidate We are ideally seeking candidates with a PhD in a relevant subject area with some experience of publishing their research in peer-reviewed, high-impact journals. However, we are also open to applications from candidates with an MSc with relevant work experience as well as evidence of some prior experience of peer-reviewed publications. Our ideal candidate will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and oral, and demonstrate the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within an interdisciplinary team. Excellent organisational and time management skills at project level are essential. You must be able to travel, as your attendance will be required as part of our team for project meetings in the UK as well as a forthcoming international workshop in Indonesia (typically for short trips of up to one week). A proactive attitude and willingness to learn new skills are also key. An understanding of economic mechanisms used in financing conservation or restoration initiatives is essential. Employee Benefits Our relatively small, caring community is an ideal environment for making friends, forming collaborations, and supporting each other to do the work that we really care about. Oban and surrounding areas provide a fantastic base to live and work, and we offer a wide range of employee benefits, support and inclusive culture, making SAMS a great place to work. Our employees are the heart of our business. Recruiting and retaining the right people is the key to our success. Rewarding our employees is therefore an important component of our employment package and we have a wide range of benefits on offer to staff to support your work and lifestyle. We are proud to provide a wide variety of benefits year-round, offering options to best support our staff, such as: flexible & hybrid working options, purchase of additional annual leave, shopping discounts, Cycle 2 Work scheme, purchases of technology through salary sacrifice, Payroll Giving, Pensions Plus, access to portals to support health and wellbeing, a sabbatical scheme, free car parking with access to electronic charging points as well as access to a number of training & development opportunities. Additionally, SAMS encourages and recognises excellence among staff through various recognition and reward arrangements. We are striving to constantly develop and expand the benefits and offers for our colleagues. Interested? We would love to hear from you. If you have queries on the job and would like to talk these through before applying, please email these through, in the first instance, to Prof. Elizabeth Cottier-Cook - elizabeth.cottier-cook@sams.ac.uk Applications must include CV and Cover Letter and should be sent electronically to recruitment@sams.ac.uk quoting Job Ref. ‘D07/25.ECC’ in the subject heading. Closing date for applications is 12th August 2025 - Interviews to be held shortly thereafter. Please note, we are unfortunately unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position as we will require someone to start work on the project by October 2025. Full details can be found here: www.sams.ac.uk/vacancies