Funding Manager
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- 22 hours ago Post Date
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Funding Manager
The Medical Research Council (MRC)
Salary: £34,905 per annum
Hours: Full time
Contract Type: Open Ended
Location: Polaris House, Swindon, Wiltshire - Hybrid working with 2/3 days in the office a week.
Closing Date: 20/10/24
Overall purpose:
You will contribute to the MRC mission as a funder improving human health through world class medical research, by helping to deliver MRC funding through research grants. You will work closely with other administrative support colleagues as well as wider team members in a supportive and collaborative environment to contribute to team objectives.
The successful candidate will provide administrative and managerial support to MRC’s Boards and Panels team which delivers the peer review and management of MRC’s research grants applications.
Specific tasks include:
- Responsibility for the end-to-end grant awarding process including oversight of the peer review process, funding meetings and post meeting activities
- Attending and Participating in Funding Meetings
- Line Management of a small team (2-3) with responsibility for attendance and performance management, supporting career development and training, completing yearly appraisals.
- Working within the cross Board and Panel resourcing matrix, manage strategic funding calls and task manage a small funding call team
- Collaborate with peers to deliver a flexible approach to resource management across all MRC funding schemes.
- Ensure the team is operating in a consistent and effective manner supporting continuous process improvement
- Support the monitoring and evaluation of the Board/Panel’s portfolio of MRC funded research by undertaking coding and classification for relevant
Selection Criteria:
The below criteria will be reviewed at shortlisting (S), Interview (I) or both (S/I)
Essential
- Experience of leading/managing others to deliver activities, following agreed processes, within timescales (S/I)
- Experience of managing people – line manager or task manager (S/I)
- Excellent written skills including experience in drafting correspondence, papers/briefings and minute taking tailored appropriately to the audience (S)
- Excellent verbal communication skills enabling clear, effective, and engaging interactions. (I)
- Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills with evidence of effective teamwork (I)
- A proven ability to work with ambiguity and change, sometimes managing difficult situations by utilising excellent problem-solving skills (I)
- Excellent self-motivation and proactiveness in using initiative to deliver results (I)
- A good understanding of peer review in research funding (S/I)
- Good analytical skills including numerical skills, able to query databases and analyse data accurately (S/I)
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office – including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel (S)
Desirable
- Experience working within a research organisation or research administration environment (S/I)
- Knowledge of UKRI and grant processing (S/I)
- Knowledge of Siebel, Oracle, Zoom and Microsoft Teams (S)
Interviews will take place in person at UKRI, Polaris House, Swindon
Boards/Panels/schemes
- Respond to enquiries from the research community and communicate MRC funding policies, taking decisions on exceptions.
- Ensure consistency of funding process, guidance and training, monitoring and reporting.
Close working relationships will be required with:
- Applicants for MRC funding
- Peer reviewers and those who select peer reviewers
- Board and Panel members
- MRC staff, including:
- Board and Panel Management team
- Research Funding and Policy Delivery team
- Events and Committees Team
- Head of Theme and Programme Managers within the Board/Panel teams
- Information and Analysis team
- UKRI staff
Benefits
We recognise and value our employees as individuals and aim to provide a favourable pay and rewards package! We’re committed to supporting employees' development and promote a culture of continuous learning!
- An outstanding defined benefit pension scheme
- 30 days' annual leave in addition to 10.5 public and privilege days (full time equivalent)
- Employee discounts and offers on retail and leisure activities
- Employee assistance programme, providing confidential help and advice
- Flexible working options
Plus, many more benefits and wellbeing initiatives that enable our employees to have a great work life balance!
UKRI is an Equal Opportunity & Disability Confident Employer.
How to apply:
Please submit an application including your CV and a Cover Letter that showcases how your skills and experience align to the requirements of the role.
A well thought through application providing evidence and examples of how you meet the advertised essential and desirable criteria for the post will be considered far more favourably than a generic covering letter and CV.
About the Medical Research Council (MRC)
Within UKRI, the MRC seeks to improve human health through world-class research. With an annual budget of over £800 m, MRC provides support both to individuals, through fellowships and grants, and to institutions, such as the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology and the Francis Crick Institute. The outcomes of our research span discovery science, improvements in public health and the development of new treatments for common diseases.
For more information about MRC, please visit https://mrc.ukri.org
About UK Research Innovation (UKRI)
UKRI is an organisation that brings together the seven disciplinary research councils, Research England and Innovate UK. Together, we build an independent organisation with a strong voice and vision ensuring the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation.
Supporting some of the world’s most exciting and challenging research projects, we develop and operate some of the most remarkable scientific facilities in the world. We are pushing the frontiers of human knowledge through fundamental research and delivering benefits for UK society and the economy through world-class research, skills and business-led innovation.
More information can be found at www.ukri.org.
Choosing to come to work at UKRI means that you will have access to a whole host of benefits from a defined benefit pension scheme, excellent holiday entitlement, access to employee shopping/travel discounts and salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme. For more details, visit benefits of working for UKRI.
The role holder will be required to have the appropriate level of security screening/vetting required for the role. UKRI reserves the right to run or re-run security clearance as required during the course of employment.
How we support EDI in the workforce
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Disability Confident Employer
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
How to apply
Online applications only preferred for this role. Please submit a CV and covering letter which clearly outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified along with your motivation for UKRI and the role. Ensure that the job reference number is included in the filename description of each document uploaded. Note that failure to address the above criteria or submit an application without a covering letter may result in the application not being considered. Assessment will only be based upon the content of your submitted covering letter and CV and not the ‘experience’ section of the application.
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