Junior Researcher (GBS Hub)

Job Title:                   Junior Researcher (GBS Hub)

Reporting to:               Head of Faculty

Location:                   Griffith College Dublin, South Circular Road

Hours of work:            Part-time / Fixed-Term

Overview

GBS Hub is looking for a dynamic and innovative researcher to join our active projects. You will
support the team with innovative EU projects and support of the GBS Research and Innovation Hub. 

This role will provide operational, research, reporting, and dissemination support across the AI2MED and AI4VET projects. The postholder will support the delivery of project events, reporting obligations, dissemination activities, and participant evaluation processes, ensuring project outputs are delivered on time and in accordance with funding requirements.

Job Responsibilities 

• Attend project webinars, workshops, and consortium activities.
• Draft quarterly internal EU project reports for review and approval.
• Draft press releases and disseminate promotional materials relating to project activities.
• Support organisation and delivery of the January AI2MED conference and hosting of project partners at Griffith College Dublin.
• Coordinate logistics for incubation labs, bootcamps, and project events.
• Collect, analyse, and collate participant feedback from project activities.
• Maintain project records and support reporting requirements.
• Assist with dissemination, communication, and stakeholder engagement activities.
  

Person Specification

• Degree or postgraduate qualification in a relevant discipline.
• Strong research, writing, and analytical skills.
• Excellent organisational and administrative abilities.
• Experience preparing reports and communications materials.
• Ability to work independently while contributing effectively to project teams.
• Interest in AI, innovation, entrepreneurship, or European-funded projects.
  
  

About Griffith College

Griffith College is a welcoming, ambitious and people-focused institution where the quality of the working environment is shaped as much by the people as by the purpose. Across our campuses in Dublin, Cork and Limerick, colleagues work in supportive teams where professionalism, mutual respect and collaboration are part of everyday life.

Founded in 1974, Griffith College is Ireland’s largest independent third-level institution, with a community of over 8,000 students across its campuses. The College delivers a broad range of undergraduate, postgraduate and professional programmes across disciplines including business, law, computing, journalism, design and pharmaceutical science.

What sets Griffith apart is not only its commitment to high-quality education, but the culture that underpins it. Staff regularly speak about the strength of the relationships they build here, the trust between colleagues, the willingness to support one another, and the opportunity to contribute to an organisation that has meaningful impact on students from Ireland and internationally, working alongside people who genuinely care about what they do and who they work with.

Our Vision

"To be recognised among the leading, innovative and socially enterprising of Ireland’s universities”

Why work for Griffith College?

• Competitive salary package
  
• Access to healthcare plans for employees and their families
• Enhanced maternity leave pay
  
• Subsidised College programmes to support career development and upskilling.
• Opportunities for staff mobility through Erasmus+ and other international mobility programmes

• Mental Health and Wellbeing supports available
• Free weekly yoga classes
• Access to onsite fitness equipment
• Availability of green space on campus, accessible to staff for sports and recreational activities
• Cycle to Work scheme

• Vibrant, multidisciplinary and multicultural learning environment
• Inclusive and diverse community
• Innovative and agile place to work
• Welcoming environment committed to both learner and staff development
• Staff discounts and offers from a wide range of retailers and service providers
• Preferential accommodation rates during the summer period for staff, and for friends and family of staff at Griffith Rooms
• Year-round staff social and wellbeing events, including BBQs, coffee mornings, wellness talks, EDI events, and more

• Onsite subsidised restaurant
• Free parking facilities
  

This job description is not to be regarded as exclusive or exhaustive. It is intended as an outline of proposed areas of activity and will be amended in the light of the changing environment within the Faculty and the College.

Griffith College is an equal opportunities employer. All candidates applying for teaching posts must undergo a mock lecture before being interviewed; will be asked to demonstrate ability via portfolio.