The Royal Historical Society seeks to appoint an Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) to join its professional Office based at University College London. The post will help support and develop the Society’s activities with a particular focus on academic and training events, networking for members of the Society, and scholarly communications.
- Job Title: Events and Academic Engagement (part-time)
- Contract: 0.6 FTE (3 days a week). Fixed Term. 12 months in the first instance, with potential for extension to permanent
- Salary: UCL Non-clinical pay scale: spine point 22, currently £36,433, including London weighting at full time, pro-rated to £21,860 for 0.6 FTE
- Location: Hybrid – remote and with some attendance in the RHS Office (UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT).
- Application closing date: 23:59 BST, Sunday 5 October 2025
- Start Date: As soon as possible after interviews; interviews are expected to take place in week commencing Monday 27 October 2025
Further details of the Events and Academic Engagement Officer role are available here, with applications made via the RHS Jobs Portal.
About the Royal Historical Society
The Society is the UK’s foremost learned society and membership organisation for the support and promotion of historians and historical research and teaching in higher education and related sectors. As a registered charity, founded in 1868 and now with more than 6,500 Fellows and Members, the Society champions the discipline of history within higher education and well beyond. Our remit is to support historians of all kinds to undertake and encourage historical research and understanding; to advocate for history and its practitioners; to represent history as a discipline and historians as a group; and to promote greater equality and representation within historical practice.
The Society is governed by its Council, led by the RHS President, with day-to-day operations undertaken by a small professional Office staff, based at University College London. Other members of RHS Office staff include: the Director (line manager for this role); Membership and Programmes Manager; Governance and Finance Officer; and Membership and Office Administrator (currently being recruited).
About this role
The Events and Academic Engagement Officer will lead for the RHS Office on the planning, organisation and successful running of all events (lectures, workshops, training, departmental visits and other formats) run by the Society, both in-person and online, working with other members of the Office and the Society’s governing Council.
The post-holder will be the principal contact with partner organisations (including the German Historical Institute, London and Gresham College) with which the Society co-organises annual events. Partnership work includes lead responsibility for the Society for planning, managing and running the annual day conference, ‘History and Archives in Practice’, held in association with The National Archives and Institute of Historical Research. The role will also lead on the development and management of new events and event formats to emerge from the Society’s current strategy review to take effect from 2026. The post-holder is also expected to play a prominent part in enhancing networking opportunities for the Society’s membership, as confirmed by the current strategic review.
As Academic Engagement Officer, the post-holder will be the first point of contact for selected holders of RHS research funding: overseeing and developing communication of project work for the benefit of the wider historical community. Academic engagement also involves a principal role in the communication and promotion of the Society’s work, and that of the wider historical profession, via the RHS blog and social media channels—as well as the development of new forms of scholarly networking and communications in line with the Society’s strategic priorities. The Society offers an employer contributor pension of 12% and a friendly, supportive and highly professional working environment.
Further details and making an application
Having read the Job Description and Specifications, please submit your application via the RHS Jobs Portal by the closing date: 23:59 GMT on Sunday 5 October 2025.