Research Grant Administrator

6 months ago

Twickenham, United Kingdom LGC Group Full time

Company Description

LGC Ltd's Grant Management Group in Twickenham works with UK government, including the Department of Health and Social Care, to run schemes to fund world-class health and social care research that improves people's health and wellbeing, promotes economic growth and advances science.

**Job Description**:
Are you an organised individual with experience of working in an administrative, process driven and/or project delivery environment, who is interested in working in health research grant funding.

We need a motivated individual to become a Research Grant Administrator / Research Officer and join our busy Operations Team. Knowledge or experience of grant administration and health or research-related environments would be beneficial but not essential.

This role involves a mixture of working in the Twickenham office (at least 4 days per month) and remotely.

1. Working with colleagues to organise grant funding schemes, including:

- Supporting the project management of individual funding competitions (to commission new research), including reporting in progress meetings, using an in-house tool to track progress and keeping stakeholders updated
- Acting as a key contact point for enquiries about funding schemes
- Communicating with stakeholders involved in funding schemes including applicants, independent expert reviewers and funding committee members, and colleagues across the Grant Management Group
- Preparing competition information for publication on websites
- Working with the Systems team to configure, test and troubleshoot each new competition on the research management system (RMS)
- Carrying out simple checks on research proposals received, and that they are not duplicating existing NIHR-funded research
- Sourcing and inviting large numbers of independent expert reviewers to undertake peer review of research funding proposals, and ensuring their input is received within deadlines
- Managing applicant responses to reviewer comments
- Producing funding committee meeting papers and related documents
- Supporting committee meetings on the day including simple Zoom troubleshooting advice for virtual meetings, overseeing venue arrangements such as room set-up at face-to-face meetings, liaising with attendees, running presentation slides, managing conflicts of interest of attendees and taking notes
- Providing practice Zoom sessions for some attendees
- Preparing and dispatching outcome letters to applicants and managing follow-up queries from applicants

2. Support monitoring and management of awards made including:

- Populating contract templates for new awards and overseeing the electronic signing process
- Collecting progress reports from award holders

4. Support annual award data collection exercises, that enable funders to understand and demonstrate the impact of the research they have funded

5. Operate as a flexible resource within the Operations team, e.g. providing support to projects and performing data analysis

6. Occasionally travel to attend face-to-face committee meetings.

**Qualifications**:

- Educated to a minimum of A Level standard
- Good administration and computing skills i.e. competent using Microsoft Office and/or Google packages (gmail, Sheets, Docs, Calendar etc)
- Able to gather information systematically from multiple sources
- Excellent attention to detail and meticulous record keeping when managing large amounts of information
- Able to manage time effectively including managing competing demands, prioritising tasks, adapting flexibly to changes and meeting all deadlines. Research Officers are often involved in at least 2-3 competitions running at any time, with overlapping and conflicting timescales
- Able to act on initiative, identify opportunities and be proactive in putting forward ideas and solutions
- A determination to get things done, make things happen and constantly looking for better ways of doing things
- A willingness and enthusiasm to learn new systems and processes
- Excellent team working, i.e. able to work confidently and effectively in a group
- Excellent verbal communication, i.e. able to express ideas clearly and confidently in speech, and vary delivery to match the specific audiences
- Excellent written communication, i.e. able to express yourself and information clearly and concisely in writing.
- An interest in advancing health care and/or a health science background

Additional Information
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