International Costing and Contract Officer

About the Role

The post holder will be part of the International Research and Innovation Team providing a customer-focused and efficient costing and contracts support services for applications to international funding applications including EU Horizon UKRI guaranteed funding. Your role will be key in ensuring fast and efficient administration of research costing and contract services, with a focus on quality and responsiveness. You will be expected to keep up to date with changes in funders’ positions and to share knowledge amongst relevant central and school/institute based teams.

About You

You will have extensive experience of working in pre-award role within HEI or another organisation dealing with funding bodies and sponsors in relation to EU or International research. You will have good knowledge in EU or international funding available for researchers at various points in their career and ability to communicate highly complex information with researchers, managers and funders are essential. You will work in a demanding and challenging environment to ensure deadlines are met; and have the ability to pay meticulous attention to detail to ensure high accuracy in research costing and contracts.

About the Department

The newly created International Research and Innovation team will manage research and partnership development plus pre and post-award support for EU and international research collaborations across all three Faculties. It aims to provide strategic engagement of international partners and funders externally, deliver competitive and high quality proposals and projects internally, and to ensure compliance with the UK, EU and international regulations and funder requirements.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable. Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers. We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

The post is based at the Dept W Whitechapel Campus in London. It is full time (35 hours per week), permanent appointment. The starting salary will be Grade 4, in the range of £36,348 – £42,592 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Qiong Wang, qiong.wang@qmul.ac.uk

To apply for the role, please click the ‘apply’ button.

The closing date for applications is 26th February 2023.

Interviews are expected to be held shortly thereafter.

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