Research Funding Specialist

4 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE06**:£29,619**:

- £ **34,308 **per annum**

**Edinburgh Research Office, Corporate Services Group**

**Full time: 35 hours per week**

**Fixed-term: 12 months**

The University of Edinburgh Research Office is looking for an enthusiastic and proactive Research Funding Specialist.

**The Opportunity**:
**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Excellent time management skills with the ability to autonomously prioritise competing demands and multiple projects
- Enthusiastic team player with good interpersonal skills, and a collegiate and customer-focused approach to the delivery of services
- Excellent at building relationships, becoming a trusted member of staff for researchers and professional services staff
- Demonstrable knowledge of the UK research environment and ability to analyze and summarise complex issues in research funding

A full list of main responsibilities and the knowledge, skills and experience required for the role can be found in the full job description below.

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**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.

**Edinburgh Research Office (ERO)**

Colleagues in Edinburgh Research Office work in partnership with researchers to develop and deliver world-leading research. We work across the research lifecycle - growing ideas into proposals, projects and impact. We are enablers and connectors, networked across the University, able to provide the best advice to researchers and research leaders in all disciplines. We are part of a wider ecosystem of over 300 colleagues providing research support across the University of Edinburgh - linking through our Schools, Colleges and Service Groups.

As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.



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