Portfolio Delivery Officer

3 weeks ago

Swindon, United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 276502**Salary**:

- £25,702**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- ESRC - Administration**Type of role**:

- Administration / Corporate Support**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working**Number of jobs available**:

- 7Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- SwindonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**Portfolio Delivery Officer**

**Salary**: £25,702 per annum
**Hours**: Full time (part-time submissions considered)
**Contract Type**:Open Ended
**Location**: Polaris House, Swindon, Wiltshire
**Closing Date**:11 April 2023

**Job Purpose**

Portfolio Delivery Officers provide key support to ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) and our portfolios of research investments and sit within the breadth of ESRC teams.

You will engage with academics at the forefront of economic and social science research, supporting the effective deployment of research and innovation funding.

You will undertake a diverse range of activities that facilitate the assessment of high-quality research proposals, support scoping, prioritisation, and commissioning of new investments, and ensure outputs, outcomes and impact are captured and optimised. These also include supporting the management of key research investment, high quality peer review selection, organising expert review panels, and delivering workshops to engage with broader stakeholder communities to catalyse research ideas. You will also act as a source of advice on ESRC’s policies and processes.

You will provide this support across portfolio areas within a hard-working, collaborative, and dynamic team, supporting everyday team functions and owning discrete areas of work that you drive forward. You will be required to build and manage strong relationships with colleagues across the organisation and external stakeholders to facilitate the effective delivery of funding through a wide range of supporting systems, data, processes, mechanisms and policies.

**Job description**:
**Responsibilities**
- Play an active role in team activities to support the delivery of the ESRC’s vision for social science
- Ensure that the end-to-end commissioning of grants, including checking proposals, and peer review selection, and managing queries, is efficient, accurate and delivered on schedule.
- Provide support on the grant-level portfolio management of investments including processing post-award changes to grants and capturing outputs, outcomes, and impacts
- Co-ordinate attendance at workshops, expert group meetings and other key events
- Lead arrangements and prepare agendas for internal and external meetings and record clear minutes and actions
- Support senior colleagues to analyse existing portfolio data, helping the team to catalyse, prioritise and develop new ideas
- Contribute ideas for improvements to our policies and processes.

**Person specification**:
**Skills, Qualifications and Experience**
- A degree in a relevant discipline, or demonstrable experience of working in a relevant environment or role
- Planning and organisational skills, including an ability to prioritise and manage complex activities
- Quality focused, with demonstrable attention to detail and pride in accuracy
- Ability to take a positive approach to solve problems and overcome challenges
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills (verbal, presentational and written) to build credibility internally and externally
- Ability to work with others as part of a team to achieve results
- Ability to engage with a range of stakeholders from different types of organisations and at different levels
- Self-motivated, enthusiastic and the flexibility to adapt and change
- An awareness of project management principles from inception through to delivery and evaluation, including the capability and drive to continuously improve processes
- IT competency and familiarity with Excel, Word and Outlook

**Benefits**:

- Flexible Working
- 30 days annual leave + Public Holidays
- Access to Civil Service Pension Scheme
- Various everyday discounts through our dedicated provider

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**Selection process details**:

- For more information and to apply, please visit our Careers Pages.
- Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Medical**:
**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the releva

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