Research Development Officer: Funding & Programmes (12 mth fixed term)

15320BR

Cardiff Business School

Managerial, Professional and Specialist Staff – MPSS

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Research Development Officer (Funding & Programmes)

Cardiff Business School is seeking to appoint a Research Development Officer (Funding & Programmes) to join the Research Services team on a fixed term basis for a 12 month period provide support following an internal secondment, commencing November/December 2022. 

Supporting Cardiff Business School within its Research Services team, the post holder will lead the enhancement and delivery of services and projects within the area of research development.

Working with the Business School’s 200 academics and researchers, this post will provide direct service delivery for research development activities, providing advice, guidance and support, monitoring the £15 million live grant portfolio and leading projects within the area of research development.  

Interested candidates are welcome to contact the Research Services Manager, Sarah Pryor [email protected]  or the current post holder, Zoey Morgan [email protected] for an informal conversation about the role.

Secondment applications are welcomed, please ensure you have secured your line manager agreement. 

This post is full-time (35 hours per week), advertised on a fixed term basis for 12 months.

Salary: £28,762 – £33,314 per annum (Grade 5).

Date advert posted: Friday, 21 October 2022
Closing date: Monday, 7 November 2022

Please be aware that Cardiff University reserves the right to close this vacancy early should sufficient applications be received.

Cardiff University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds who have the ambition to create a University which seeks to fulfil our social, cultural and economic obligation to Cardiff, Wales, and the world.  In supporting our employees to achieve a balance between their work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements. Cardiff Business School is particularly looking to recruit from under-represented groups within the School.

Job Description

Key Duties

•    Support Cardiff Business School within its Research Services team, leading the enhancement and delivery of services and projects within the area of research development.
•    Provide expert support for external research applications, working directly with individual academics and research teams within the requirements of each funding opportunity.
•    Ensure external funding applications are appropriate to the requirements of the source of funding and meet the expectations of College and University funding ambitions.
•    Ensure an appropriate peer review process for external grants is followed for the approximately 50 submissions per annum, in order to improve the number and quality of applications to external funding bodies.
•    Manage the internal School funding programmes and Research Leave scheme, providing support at application, assessment and budget allocation stages and with post-award reporting and evaluation.
•    Working with the Deputy School Manager, log WAM hours as agreed by the School and ensure information is accurate and available for workload planning activities.
•    Develop and provide a post-award service to grant holders including support for budgets oversight, delivery of events and servicing meetings across the full programme of externally funded projects.
•    Establish working relationships with academics to ensure familiarity with their individual priorities and interests, in order to be able to source and share research funding information for colleagues across the School.
•    Liaise with central research support teams and college development support to coordinate support delivery.
•    Liaise with other research active groups throughout the University, e.g. University Research Institutes, to ensure School oversight of research activities of wider CARBS academic staff.
•    Develop and deliver research support training sessions for academic sections and research groups.
•    Line management of administrative staff.
•    Oversee core administrative processes, provide secretariat to key research related committees and sub-committees, and support the development of management information reports.
•    Lead on School development projects as required by Management Board and Operational Management Team.
•    Deputise for Research Services Manager when required.

Person Specification

Essential Criteria 

Qualifications and Education
1.    Degree/NVQ 4 or equivalent Professional membership/experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience
2.    Substantial experience of working in a research administration role.
3.    Able to demonstrate professional knowledge of preparing research funding bids and development activities.
4.    Able to give high quality advice and guidance to internal and external service users.
5.    Able to set up standard office systems and procedures and proactively suggest, implement and evaluate continuous improvements as appropriate.

Customer Service, Communication and Team Working
6.    Ability to communicate conceptually detailed and complex information effectively and professionally with a wide range of people.
7.    Evidence of ability to explore the needs of service users and to adapt the service accordingly to ensure a quality service is delivered.

Planning, Analysis and Problem solving
8.    Evidence of ability to solve expansive problems using initiative and creativity; identifying and proposing practical solutions and resolving problems with range of potential outcomes.
9.    Evidence of ability to work unsupervised to deadlines, planning and setting priorities for own work and that of others and monitoring progress.
10.    Evidence of ability to undertake and deliver specific projects and supervise short term project teams

Desirable Criteria 

11.    Fluency in Welsh, written or oral.
12.    Postgraduate/Professional qualification in a relevant discipline.
13.    Experience of working in a Higher Education environment

Additional Information

IMPORTANT NOTE TO CANDIDATES
It is the University’s policy to use the person specification as a key tool for short-listing and we only invite candidates to interview who clearly evidence that they meet (or partially meet) each of the essential criteria. During the application process you will be asked to attach a supporting statement. This statement must outline how you meet the criteria below and we recommended formatting this by using each criterion as a sub-heading and providing your relevant experience/evidence below each sub-heading. It is crucial that you save your supporting statement with the vacancy number (e.g. xxxxxBR) in the filename as failure to do so may result in it being omitted from your application.

Cardiff Business School
Cardiff Business School is widely regarded as one of the leading business and management schools in the UK, ranked 6th in the UK for the quality of its research in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF).  We educate over 3,500 students annually, including over 1,500 international students. Cardiff Business School has an international faculty of world-leading scholars. Our research reputation has helped us become an attractive centre of scholarship for colleagues from the UK and beyond. As the world’s first Public Value Business School, Cardiff Business School has a commitment to delivering societal as well as economic value though the undertaking of world leading inter-disciplinary research addressing the grand challenges facing communities, business and organizations.

Job Category

Admin / Clerical, Management & Executive