Are you customer focused and excited about delivering an outstanding service to customers? Do you have experience of providing research finance administrative support in addition to exceptional organisational skills? Do you want to join a team supporting academics and clinicians with research grant management?

As a highly motivated, proactive individual you will be responsible for providing research grant management support to the Academics and Research Manager within the Faculty of Medicine & Health with a focus on pre award and grants management.

The team deals with a large volume of research grant applications and awards. You will work closely with the academics and senior finance administrators/ research managers to assist with costings to obtain funding for research and Knowledge Transfer (KT) activity with the Faculty. In particular you will be the Faculty contact and source of knowledge on all matters relating to costing of projects, liaising with funders and day to day grant management and operational matters.

You will need to show a high level of attention to detail and have the ability to organise, prioritise and work to tight deadlines. You will have a high level of interpersonal, communication and organisational skills and to be able to work on your own using your initiative, flexibly, proactively in a busy environment. We also require good problem solving skills to work through complex issues.

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:

Emma Tolson, Research Manager

Tel: +44 (0)113 392 4951, email: e.j.tolson@leeds.ac.uk

Location:     Leeds - Chapel Allerton Hospital
Faculty/Service:     Professional Services
School/Institute:     Finance (inc Payroll)
Category:     Administrative and Clerical Support
Grade:     Grade 6
Salary:     £27,511 to £32,817 p.a.
Post Type:     Full Time
Contract Type:     Ongoing
Release Date:     Monday 02 December 2019
Closing Date:     Friday 13 December 2019
Downloads:     Candidate Brief