Senior Research Contracts Officer

2 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE06: £30,619.00 - £35,308.00 Per Annum**

**College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine / Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies / The Roslin Institute, Easter Bush Campus**

**Open ended: Full time - 35 hours per week**

We are looking for a UE06 Senior Research Contracts Officer to provide pre
- and post
- award support to academic researchers and investigators of The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (R(D)SVS) on the Easter Bush Campus.

**The Opportunity**:
This role is responsible for the capture and analysis of finance and resources of externally funded research activity as they influence the overall finance and resources position for both The Roslin Institute and R(D)SVS on the Easter Bush Campus.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- HNC/HND or equivalent level qualifications plus previous relevant grants administration/accounts experience (within HE sector); demonstrating development through involvement in progressively more demanding relevant work/roles
- Excellent accountancy and numeracy skills, with some knowledge of job costing and awareness of financial/budget modelling
- High quality communication and relationship building skills with evidence of the ability to persuade and negotiate
- High level of analytical and organisational skills with accuracy and attention to detail.
- Enthusiasm and commitment for working in a varied and busy role, with a strong sense of service delivery.

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**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.



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