Research Development Officer

The University of Brighton's research pre-award team are looking for a Research Development Officer to join our dynamic and busy department - Research and Knowledge Exchange (RaKE). 

As the successful post-holder, you will work as part of a specialist team, supporting research bid development.  With responsibility for a portfolio of projects being developed for bids for external research funding, the Research Development Officer will horizon-scan for funding opportunities, matching them to academic expertise, assist with all aspects of bid development including budgeting and help in drafting sections of proposals. You will represent the department on School Research and Knowledge Exchange Committees and contribute to the Research Development training programme.

As the successful applicant, you will have excellent written and oral communication skills and a good understanding of the research environment.  Additionally, you will have:

• Experience of academic writing
• Experience of developing or working with budgets
• Excellent attention to detail
• Experience of designing and delivering training

Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details of this post, and the skills and experience that you will need to be successful. the post is eligible for agile working, meaning that you will be able to work some days remotely, with agreement from your manager.

We welcome applications from candidates seeking to job share. 

Further details:

The University is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment for all staff regardless of age, disability, family or caring responsibilities, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief (including non-belief), sex and sexual orientation. We embrace equality and diversity in our working, learning, research and teaching environment and are committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive community. We particularly encourage applicants from Minority Ethnic backgrounds because the University is under-represented by Minority Ethnic staff.

For the vast majority of our roles, we operate an agile working system with time split between working on campus and at the employee's home. It is the University's expectation that home working will take place within the UK.

Further information about working for us, as well as the wide range of benefits we offer, can be found in the working with us section of our vacancies page.

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