Research Funding Specialist

7 months ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**Research Funding Specialist**

**Grade 6 (£31,396 - £36,024)**

**Moray House School of Education and Sport**

**Full time, 35 hours per week**

**Open-Ended
**The Opportunity**:
They will be proactive in advocating a positive, supportive research culture in the School.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:
This post would suit a self-starting individual with initiative and the following attributes:

- High degree of numeracy and awareness of financial/budget modelling
- Excellent attention to detail
- Proven high-quality communication and relationship-building skills
- Highly developed time-management skills, with experience of dealing with conflicting demands and prioritising workload in a fast-paced environment
- Eagerness to embrace new ways of working and to contribute to discussions about process improvement
- A strongly developed sense of shared service delivery and customer focused approach

Please ensure that you upload a **cover letter and your CV **when you apply. These documents should detail how you meet the essential criteria of the post.

Click **here **for a copy of the full job description

**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits **pension scheme **, **staff discounts, **family friendly initiatives **, flexible working and much more. Access our **staff benefits page **for further information and use our **reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work **webpages

**Key dates to note**

It is anticipated that interviews will be held on **Friday 15 December (tbc).**

**Informal enquiries about the post may be made to**:
Daniel Underwood, Research Portfolio Manager, Moray House School of Education and Sport (MHSES)

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