Funding Officer

3 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 2.5 days a week and job shares welcomed)

**Contract Type**: Fixed Term (2 years)

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

**Closing date**: Sunday 20th August 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 including agendas and briefing material
- Attending and supporting funding meetings acting as back-office support coordinating staff and attendees
- 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

**Person Requirements**
- Essential:_
- A-level qualifications or demonstrable equivalent experience
- Experience of working in a 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
- Experience of collecting, managing and maintaining large volumes of sensitive data, including an understanding of regulations and good practice pertaining to this
- Able to demonstrate resilience with an ability to stay calm under pressure
- 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 managing large data sets using pivot tables and vlookups as key tools

**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.

The role holder will be required to have the appropriate level of security screening/vetting required for the role. UKRI reserves the right to run or re-run security clearance as required during the course of employment.

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