Flf Funding Officer

4 weeks ago

Swindon, United Kingdom Medical Research Council (MRC) Full time

**The Medical Research Council (MRC)**

**Salary**: £25,702

**Hours**:Full time or Part time (minimum 18.5 hours a week)

**Contract Type**:Fixed Term (12 months)

**Location**: Polaris House, Swindon, Wiltshire.

**Closing date**:Sunday 5th March 2023

**About the role**

We are recruiting a Funding Officer within the UKRI Talent team, who will support the delivery of UKRI Talent programmes, including the Future Leaders Fellowships. The Funding Officer will support the operational processes associated with delivery of peer review and assessment panels and manage and co-ordinate the administrative workloads within this team. The role will also contribute to the development of UKRI Talent in the context of the recently published People and Culture Strategy, which prioritises renewing the UK’s position as a global leader in R&D by attracting, retaining, and developing talented people.

**Key responsibilities**
- Preparing materials and managing logistics for funding meetings
- Attending and supporting funding meetings
- Processing decisions from funding meetings, communicating notifications and feedback to applicants
- Task managing the Funding Administrators, providing support, training, co-ordinating tasks and having oversight of activities and workloads
- Liaising with a wide range of people, both internally and externally, responding to queries and providing clear advice
- Carrying out any other duties/ projects that may be required of the post across UKRI Talent

**Education / Qualifications / Training required**:

- Essential:_
- A-level qualifications or demonstrable equivalent experience

**Knowledge and experience**:

- Essential:_
- An interest in working in the research and innovation funding environment
- Excellent teamwork skills, proactively supporting colleagues
- Excellent communication skills, with experience of establishing and maintaining good working relationships with stakeholders
- Demonstrable problem-solving skills, with the ability to contribute to ongoing process improvements within the team
- Excellent organisational skills, with good attention to detail
- Ability to proactively and independently manage and prioritise workloads, adapting to changing and conflicting priorities
- Commitment to advancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office products: Outlook, Excel, Word
- Desirable:_
- Experience of task management and/or staff supervision
- Understanding of the principles of peer review and operational delivery of research and innovation funding programmes
- Experience of working in a research and innovation funding environment

**Additional information**:
You will be based primarily in Swindon (hybrid working options available) but may be required to attend meetings/events in other UK locations.

**About the Medical Research Council (MRC)**

Within UKRI, the MRC seeks to improve human health through world-class research. With an annual budget of over £800 m, MRC provides support both to individuals, through fellowships and grants, and to institutions, such as the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology and the Francis Crick Institute. The outcomes of our research span discovery science, improvements in public health and the development of new treatments for common diseases.

**About UK Research Innovation (UKRI)**

UKRI is an organisation that brings together the seven disciplinary research councils, Research England and Innovate UK. Together, we build an independent organisation with a strong voice and vision ensuring the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation.

Supporting some of the world’s most exciting and challenging research projects, we develop and operate some of the most remarkable scientific facilities in the world. We are pushing the frontiers of human knowledge through fundamental research and delivering benefits for UK society and the economy through world-class research, skills and business-led innovation.

Choosing to come to work at UKRI means that you will have access to a whole host of benefits from a defined benefit pension scheme, excellent holiday entitlement, access to employee shopping/travel discounts and salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme. For more details, visit benefits of working for UKRI.

**How we support EDI in the workforce**

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. For further information, please visit ‘How we support EDI in the workforce’.

**Disability Confident Employer**

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