EU Costing and Contract Officer

About the Role

The postholder will be part of the International Research and Innovation Team as part of the EU costing and contracts team providing a customer-focused and efficient costing and contracts support services to EU applications (mainly Horizon Europe) working with the Senior EU Partnership manager to deliver integrated added value EU support services pre award. Your role will be key to ensuring fast and efficient administration with a focus on quality and responsiveness working under pressure of deadlines and high volumes of EU bids  and awards. You will be expected to keep up to date with EU funder rules and to share knowledge with relevant central /school/institute based teams and input to guidancedeveloped by the EU team.

About You

You will have extensive experience of working in a EU pre-award role in an HEI or another organisation dealing with EU funding bodies. You will have good knowledge in EU funding available for researchers at various points in their career and ability to communicate highly complex information. You will work in a demanding and challenging environment to ensure deadlines are met; pay meticulous attention to detail to ensure high accuracy and compliance in EU research costing and contracts. You will have excellent organisational skills to multi task and time plan to support  a portfolio of projects allocated to you for EU costing and contract support.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project

The post sits within the International Research and Innovation Team that manages EU and international grant funding pre-award. It aims to provide strategic engagement of EU and international partners and funders to deliver competitive and high-quality proposals and projects internally and to ensure compliance with the UK, EU and international regulations and funder requirements. It is one of the teams in the Joint Research Management Office (JRMO) that supports researchers across Queen Mary University of London and Bart’s Health NHS Trust.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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