Funding Assurance Officer

We want you to love what you do whilst looking after yourself, so we support you with excellent benefits such as:   

• 27 days annual leave  
• Above standard pension contributions   
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave 
• A flexible approach to work, enabling you to maintain a healthy work/life balance   
• 24 hour, 365-day access to support with physical, mental, social, health or financial issues   

Plus more - https://www.ceh.ac.uk/employee-benefits  

A bit about you... 

• Coordinate and undertake due diligence checks on third party research organisations 
• Act as a main point of contact, responding to internal and external queries regarding due diligence 
• Assist with the completion of due diligence requests and checks by external parties  
• Liaise with our Procurement team, supporting with supplier due diligence 
• Provide upwards reporting to Directors or the board as required and support QA/auditing requirements  
• Maintain document storage, archiving systems and up-to-date due diligence processes and policy documentation 

Research Ethics: 

• Secretarial support to the chair and members of the research ethics committee 
• Organising the application process between the applicant and committee  
• Administration of the budget  
• Acting as the main point of contact, responding to internal queries  
• Maintaining the document storage and archiving systems 
• Liaising with the relevant director and quality assurance manager in the event of any reported misconduct, complaints, events or incidences  

Essential skills we are looking for: 

• Educated to a degree level in an appropriate subject (eg. Law, Economics, Business, Risk Management, Statistics) or equivalent work experience  
• Experience working in an office environment  
• Confident in handling confidential information and working to specific data security guidelines  
• Extracting task-relevant information using translation tool/software