Research Grants Administrator
- Employer
- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
- Location
- London (Central), London (Greater)
- Salary
- £38,232 - £42,999 per annum including London Weighting Allowance
- Closing date
- 6 Nov 2024
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- Job Type
- Research Related, Research Support, Other Research Related, Research Manager
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
About Us
The Research Management & Innovation Directorate (RMID) at King’s is dedicated to providing comprehensive and wide-ranging professional support across the research ecosystem. This includes ensuring that the university maintains and develops relationships and research partnerships with funding organisations both domestically and internationally; leading King’s work on capital funding bids; and managing the university’s investment in research.
Led by Director Dr Bryony Wakefield, RMID works closely with Vice President (Research & Innovation) Professor Bashir M. Al-Hashimi and the Vice-Principals, in collaboration with research management colleagues across the Faculties and our partners, to provide the best environment, support and networks for our community, from postgraduate research students to senior academics. Our teams of professional services staff provide advice, support, platforms and services to our research community.
About the Role
As a Research Grants Administrator you will assist with the day-to-day Post-Award management of all research projects, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the funder. Utilising your customer service and stakeholder management skills you will provide advice and guidance to Principal Investigators (PIs), departments and external funders.
You will need to ensure compliance with KCL Financial regulations and accounting procedures and act as the first point of call for individuals and external organisations with queries on information. The role holder is to ensure that any issues are solved efficiently and effectively. When there are queries that need to be escalated, you will recommend a course of action to resolve.
This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract
About You
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:
Essential criteria
- Good understanding of Research Grants and Contracts Post Award activities in a University or similar environment
- A thorough understanding of funder Terms and Conditions of RCUK, Wellcome Trust, NIHR, UK and other Overseas Funders and Charities
- Ability to demonstrate high levels of accuracy and attention to detail with very strong financial reconciliation skills
- IT literate with advanced spreadsheet skills including pivot tables
- High level of numeracy, double entry and accounting principle
- Excellent organisational skills and ability to lead when required
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
- Practical problem-solving skills and ability to analyse data at different levels
Desirable criteria
- Degree-level education or equivalent professional qualification
- Accountancy qualification or studying towards such a qualification
Downloading a copy of our Job Description
Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.
Further Information
We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.
We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.
We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.
To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.
Company
King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.
King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.
King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.
King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.
King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.
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