Senior Research & Innovation (R&I) Analyst

Do you have an understanding and/or appreciation of the HE sector and the key challenges and strategic issues facing research and innovation in a HE environment plus experience of managing and responding to data and information requests? If so, we would welcome your application for this role.

As a member of the Business Development Research and Innovation (BDRI) directorate’s central delivery team, you will play a key role in ensuring that all reporting and compliance activities relating to research and innovation are conducted in an efficient and effective way in order to minimise any risks of regulatory or legal exposure. You will be actively managing processes relating to TRAC, fEC, benchmarking, internal and external monitoring returns.

As Senior Research and Innovation (R&I) Analyst you can expect to be involved in:

• Managing, maintaining and developing systems and processes related to the University’s costing and pricing systems including exception reporting, salary rates, overhead rates, funder lists and foreign currency exchange rates. Liaising with other Directorates such as HR as necessary
• Playing a key role in the development and implementation of research and innovation analytics, including hands-on production of data sets, analytics and models
• Being the Directorate specialist with regards to the Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC) and Full Economic Costing (fEC) methodologies, liaising with other Directorates such as Finance as necessary. Undertaking necessary surveys and monitoring as part of the annual TRAC(R) submission process
• Collating data for and support the submission of internal and external monitoring returns such as the HE-BCI Survey, HESA, KEF and REF. Taking a lead role on addressing data quality issues

What will you bring to the role?

• Degree in a relevant field and/or appropriate administration qualification, or relevant demonstrable experience 
• A good working knowledge of TRAC and fEC 
• Experience of developing and implementing new policies/procedures in a complex organisation and preparing data for submission to external monitoring exercises
• Experience in Finance (i.e. UBW) and Research Management System (i.e. Worktribe) would be beneficial

What we can offer in return: 

As a member of our team, you can expect a friendly, open and collaborative working environment and support in your development and wellbeing. You'll enjoy a range of great staff benefits including:

• Hybrid working options allowing a flexible blend of office and home working (to be agreed in line with business needs) (remove this bullet for ACADEMIC roles)
• 43 days' leave per year (personal leave, bank holidays and additional days allocated for the Christmas period, pro rata for part-time staff)
• Excellent pension scheme with generous employer contributions
• Corporate employee-funded healthcare plan, in partnership with Benenden Health

For more information about what you can look forward to if you join us, visit our dedicated webpage: Working at Kent

We are ambitious for our people, our communities and the region we serve – join us in making the world a better place. Visit our website for more on who we are: http://www.kent.ac.uk/about/

Please see the links below to view the full job description and to apply for this post. For further information regarding the application process, please contact peopleserviceshr@kent.ac.uk quoting reference number RIS-075-25-R.

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