Funding Officer

4 weeks ago

Swindon, United Kingdom Arts and Humanities Research Council Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 270608**Salary**:

- £25,702 - £25,702**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer- UKRI Grade C**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- AHRC - Administration**Type of role**:

- Administration / Corporate Support**Working pattern**:

- Full-time, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- SwindonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**Funding Officer**

**The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)**

**Full time / part time (minimum 0.8 hours FTE)**

**Swindon**

**Open Ended**

**£25,702**

The Funding Officer role is a fundamentally administrative one, tasked with the operational delivery of the team’s objectives. This exposure to the broad and varied work of the AHRC will provide you with an excellent understanding of the national and international research funding landscape and allow you to develop a long-term career path within grants funding.

**Job description**:
**Key responsibilities**
- Support the Peer Review Process and grant lifecycle from end to end
- Engaging directly with applicants to provide answers to policy and process queries and liaising with the communications team to help publicise calls and funding opportunities where relevant
- Support the development, organisation and delivery of AHRC events, workshops and meetings, working with colleagues to secure venues, arrange logistics and deliver secretariat support
- Engage with and support improvement activities seeking to refine processes, policy and ways of working within both your team and the wider organisation.

**Person specification**:
**About you**
- You have excellent organisational and administrative skills, and the ability to work flexibly and multi-task with good attention to detail, often at pace
- You have sound numeric skills, including handling and analysing data sensitively, accurately, and responsibly
- You have excellent written communication skills and can draft and understand complex written documents and interpret them clearly
- You can work independently, think creatively, solve problems, and make effective decisions
- You are a great team player and can provide support to colleagues, sharing knowledge and information, and contributing towards the achievements of your team and the wider organisation
- You are an excellent communicator with good interpersonal skills, working effectively with colleagues at different levels both inside and outside the organisation, while being an effective ambassador for the AHRC
- You have a good working knowledge of IT.

**Benefits**:
**Benefits**

We recognise and value our employees as individuals and aim to provide a pay and rewards package that motivates staff to perform to the best of their ability.
- A flexible working scheme,
- An outstanding pension scheme,
- 30 days annual leave allowance plus public holidays

At UKRI, we believe that everyone has a right to be treated with dignity and respect, and to be provided with equal opportunities to thrive and succeed in an environment that enables them to do so. We also value diversity of thought and experience within inclusive groups, organisations and the wider community.

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**Selection process details**:
Please provide an up-to-date CV and a cover letter outlining your suitability for the role, matched with the criteria.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Medical**:
**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)**Working for the Civil Service**:

- The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
- We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).-
- Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.**Contact point for applicants**:
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