Grants Coordinator

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- Vacancy ID 14118- We are currently recruiting for a temporary Grants Coordinator to work at one of our Headington based departments.- The assignment would start ASAP, working 29 hrs p/w and paying £15.24 p/h.- Duties:
- Assist in cleansing, updating, and maintaining datasets in Excel-based trackers and in-house database to create regular and ad hoc reports for members of the OCTO team such as Portfolio Leads and Trial Managers, for executive committee meetings, and for external funders and other stakeholders.
- Use Oracle to assist with regular monitoring and reporting on expenditure and budget as required, and assist key stakeholders with their financial queries.
- Work collaboratively with Research Services and Research Awards offices, using standardised forms as required to provide complete and updated project information.
- Transfer expenditure between trial grants, and from general ledger cost centres to/from grant projects and assist with regular and end-of-project reconciliations.
- Assist Senior Finance Officer to ensure that project set up and reports are delivered according to funder Terms and Conditions and before project close ensure that project expenditure meets the funder’s eligibility requirements. Advise Principal Investigators and other key stakeholders on T&Cs as needed.
- Person specification
- Educated to GCSE standard or equivalent.
- Highly organised with excellent attention to detail.
- Excellent time management skills and proven ability to prioritise workload to meet deadlines.
- Good numeracy and strong aptitude for working with financial data.
- Competent in writing financial reports.
- Confident using the Office suite and other software packages, with proven ability using intermediate features of
- Excel including pivot tables and lookups
- Approachable and confident communicating with people at all levels, both internally and externally.

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