Research Grants Support Administrator

3 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE05 £27,979 - £32,332 Per Annum**

**Corporate Services Group/Edinburgh Research Office**

**Full time, 35 hours per week**

**Fixed-Term (24 months)
**The Opportunity**:
We are seeking colleagues who will embody our values of expertise, community, integrity and collaboration.

Research Grants Team work closely with the University of Edinburgh research and professional service communities, partners and funders, to maximise the research academic colleagues can undertake for the funding they receive.

We are looking for a **Research Grants Support Administrator **to join our expert team in supporting the delivery of financial management and post award administration across the EU and International teams.

You will work collaboratively across the Research Grants team and with colleagues across a range of departments to provide crucial administrative support. This includes the setup of new awards, assisting with funder audits, using the People and Money system for processing transactions and managing the team mailboxes for queries and support

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- A finance background is highly desirable, with an understanding of financial reconciliation and audit requirements, foreign currency implications.
- Ability to prioritise and manage your own workload, work under pressure to tight deadlines, and cope with conflicting demands.
- Ability to establish effective working relationships and communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
- High level of numeracy with good attention to detail Good IT skills including word processing, and spreadsheets.

**Click to view a copy of the full **job description**

**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
**The University of Edinburgh**

The University of Edinburgh is 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. Click to access our **staff benefits page **(opens new browser tab) 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. The University offers hybrid working; in Edinburgh Research Office we expect colleagues to be on campus for a minimum of team anchor days, team meetings, all-ERO meetings and other in-person meetings and events required in your role.

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 **(opens new browser tab).

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.

**Edinburgh Research Office**

Working in Edinburgh Research Office you will be part of a professional, supportive, and friendly team ; at the heart of University research support, working in collaboration with academics and research support professionals across the institution. The breadth of our remit means you will get an overview of research support activity while you build your skills in your specialism. Gaining new knowledge and skills to help you develop in this role and progress in your career is a priority. We offer colleagues a stimulating working environment based on our values of integrity, expertise, community, and collaboration. Our work is fast-paced and intense; you will thrive here if you are motivated, collaborative, and passionate about providing an excellent service to enable our researchers to do amazing work.

**The Research Grants Team **is responsible for the recovery of c£324m research income across 3,500 research awards. You will be a key support to the wider team of 40 and we work closely with colleagues across all academic departments in the University assisting in the management of research awards.

**Key dates to note**

Closing date for aplications is 23 May 2024

**Interviews**:
Interviews will be held on 29 May 2024



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