Flf Funding Officer

4 weeks ago

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

**FLF Funding Officer**

**The Medical Research Council (MRC)**

**£25,702**
**Full time or Part time (minimum 18.5 hours a week)**
**Fixed Term (12 months)**
**Polaris House, Swindon, Wiltshire**

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.

**Benefits**

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.

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

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Fixed term contract

**Salary**: £25,702.00 per year

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: One location

Reference ID: 2300006P

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