Pre-Award Team Lead - Health Faculties

This role will manage the research grants support function in the Health Faculties Pre-Award team (part of the King’s Research Grants and Contracts unit) The post holder will deputise for the Director of Pre-Award in certain strategic areas as needed.

The post holder will lead on strategic areas on behalf of the Pre-Award team, including but not limited to policy and process improvements and relationship building with KHP NHS Trusts on behalf of the Pre-Award team, and will be the key point of escalation within the Pre-Award team on those areas.

The role will act as a key liaison on behalf of Pre-Award with other relevant teams within RGC, RMID, other King’s professional services and the Faculties as determined and in conjunction with the Director of Pre-Award.

The post will line-manage the Pre-Award staff based both in the Denmark Hill and Guy’s campus teams and will be responsible for coordinating the overall support offered to all Health Faculties, as well as monitoring and tracking the team’s work.  

Candidates should have experience of supporting research grant submissions, preferably in a university environment, policy development expertise and be a confident and persuasive advocate with different stakeholders. Experience of costing and pricing project budgets is desirable. 

Applicants also require excellent organisational and communication and literacy skills, proven decision-making ability and be able to work well under pressure, both individually and as part of a team. 

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract.

This is a full-time post - 100% full time equivalent.

Skills, knowledge, and experience

Essential criteria

• Degree or equivalent professional qualification or equivalent experience
• Proven experience of research grants application support and knowledge of UK and non-UK funder requirements.
• Previous experience of supervising or leading staff with proven motivational and team building skills
• Analytical thinking
• Excellent interpersonal skills, track record of engaging with internal and external partners and diplomacy and tact when dealing with different stakeholders and problems, whilst being capable of firmly maintaining College Polices
• Experience of promotion of activity and/or policy within an organisation
• Ability to manage a large and diverse workload in a timely manner.
• Problem solving with a view of mediating issues from the start and proposing solutions/compromise
• Empathy with the academic community, research support staff in departments and other RMID functions
• Self starter, resilient in ambiguous and ever-changing working environments and able to work largely unsupervised
• IT literate, knowledge of research information systems and capacity to look into details and impact of possible solutions and decisions.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in a similar role in Health faculties
• Contract negotiation skills

Further information

The interview process will consist of an interview, which may include a presentation. A second interview may also be required.

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