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Funding Assurance Officer

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Location: Bangor, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Wallingford
Salary: £34,562 to £36,556 (dependent on skills and experience)
Hours: Full Time, Part Time
Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract
Placed On: 20th February 2023
Expires: 21st April 2023
Job Ref: JR886

15-Month Fixed Term Appointment, Full-Time (37 hours per week), Part-Time hours and/or job share could be considered

Hybrid working options available

Preferred location: Wallingford

Alternative locations: Lancaster, Edinburgh and Bangor

We are an independent, not-for-profit research institute. Home to 600 scientists, supported by our experienced professional service teams, we provide the data and insights that researchers, governments, and businesses need to tackle some of the major environmental challenges we face today.   

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... 

You are calm, analytical, logical and methodical. You have a high level of attention to detail. You are able to absorb large quantities of information and provide clear and succinct advice, balancing our need to further our charitable objectives whilst balancing risk. You will be resolutely solution focused. You will be driven to ensure that our dealings with our partners are transparent and enable us to continue our research whilst safeguarding our reputation.   

You will help us ensure that our research is ethically responsible and delivered in accordance with our values. You will help us build and maintain partnerships built on the highest possible integrity. You are efficient, agile and organised and will coordinate and complete due diligence checks on third party research partners, while collating responses to external requests for due diligence and research ethics assessments.  

You will be an excellent communicator as you’ll liaise internally with all parties at all levels and externally with parties within the UK and internationally. In this role you’ll also provide secretarial support to the Research Ethics Committee.   

Main Responsibilities 

To undertake risk based due diligence covering financial governance, operational and reputation issues and support/co-ordinate the Research Ethics Committee.  

Due Diligence: 

  • 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   

Informal queries about this role, please contact Jack O’Brien (jacobr@ceh.ac.uk)  

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