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Research Funding Associate

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater) (GB)
Closing date
9 Feb 2025
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A unique opportunity to be an integral part of the Pre-Award (Strand) Team has arisen at King’s College London.

Pre-Award is a team within the Research Grants & Contracts Division which is part of the wider Research Management and Innovation Directorate providing support to all faculties at King’s.

We are looking for an individual with proven skills to be part of a team of skilled Research Support staff providing an efficient and effective service for all members of King’s staff who are engaged in research. We are looking for expertise in 5 key areas: 

  • provide efficient and effective pre-award service for members of King’s College London staff who are engaged in research.
  • have delegated authority and responsibility within certain limitations to prepare and submit official costs on behalf of the College.
  • approve research applications.
  • accept grants awarded.
  • negotiate contractual conditions and contribute towards the formulation of policy on research matter and develop (or continue to develop) their own expertise in research funding.

The Strand based Campus team is mainly supporting the faculties of Arts & Humanities, Business, Law, Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences and Social Science & Public Policy.

This role will have primary responsibility for supporting Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences working closely with their current Research Funding Associate and support the other faculties falling under the remit of the Strand Campus.

The postholder will work pro-actively and independently within the context of existing King’s policy and strategy and will be expected to contribute to the development of these over time.

The post-holder will also have responsibility to negotiate agreements on behalf of King’s and become independently expert at drafting research contracts and agreements over time. This role will be subject to developments and adaptations according to institutional needs. Resilience and capacity to adapt in constant changing environment is an essential part of the role.

King’s has a hybrid working policy and the post will primarily be based at the Strand Campus, however flexibility is required to be at any Campus where needed. There will be an expectation to also support the rest of the Pre-Award team when necessary (such as during busy periods and due to sickness, annual leave) - with research costing/application/contract support - as needed.

Applicants also require excellent organisational, communication, negotiation and literacy skills, proven decision-making ability and be able to work well under pressure, both individually and as part of a team.

This is a full-time time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite  contract.

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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KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Telephone
+(44)02078365454
Location
STRAND
LONDON
WC2R 2LS
GB

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