Department of Life Sciences
Hourly Pay Rate:
£12.00 hourly pay + £1.44 per hour holiday pay
Hours Per Week
16
Duration of role:
Short term role
All Locations
Remote
Closing Date:
03 Nov 2024

Job Description

The current opportunity is available for current Manchester Met students, to apply you must be based in the UK for the duration of the role.
  
This is a short-term part-time job for a skilled website designer interested in collaborating with a research team to develop an MMU satellite website targeting children’s families, paediatric clinicians, and paediatric physiotherapists.
 

Background
We want to appoint a suitable student from Manchester Metropolitan University to work on the MRC-funded project: “Quantification of head and trunk control for children with neuromotor and neuromuscular disorders” (MR/T002034/1, information at: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FT002034%2F1). The objective of this proposal is to develop an accurate, low-cost clinical tool to provide automated objective assessment of trunk control status in children with cerebral palsy (CP), spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), and other neuromuscular disorders.

As part of the project, we are creating an MMU satellite website for the dissemination of the clinical tool and are looking for a suitable website designer who would like to join our team.

Main duties/responsibilities
To create an MMU satellite website in collaboration with the research team and as instructed by the university guidelines: https://mmuintranet.mmu.ac.uk/Interact/Pages/Content/Document.aspx?id=10451

Dates
Mid-November to late-December 2024.
 
Hours of Work
Up to 16 hours per week, flexible working hours, dependent on student availability.  

Person Specification

This role is only open to current Manchester Met Students who meet the following requirements - 
 
  • Demonstrated experience and competence in web design.
  • Familiarity with any required technology (such as HTML5, JavaScript, PHP/ASP, SQL and/or CSS) to create a website as instructed in https://mmuintranet.mmu.ac.uk/Interact/Pages/Content/Document.aspx?id=10451.
  • Drawing skills to create figures from videos.
  • Video editing skills to anonymise data.
  • An interest in websites created for children.
 

How to Apply

Please apply via the Apply button, completing the form on the next page.
 
A CV and covering statement are required and will be considered as a part of this application. 
 
The deadline for applications is 11:59pm on Sunday 3 November 2024.
 
Manchester Metropolitan University is committed to supporting the rights, responsibilities, dignity, health and wellbeing of staff and students through our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion. 
  
We are committed to providing accessible and inclusive recruitment. If you require or would benefit from support or reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and in work, please contact us by e-mailing [email protected]. This information will only be used and shared with those who require it to implement any change(s) and only at the point this is required.
 
If you have any queries, or need any further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

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