Research Group Administrator

Department
The Department of Health Sciences is a large, multi-disciplinary and multi-professional department with over 350 academics, researchers and support staff engaged in delivering research & teaching. In 2024/25, the department had annual research project income of £16.4 million raised entirely from external competitive grant funding from a wide range of funders.

Our core aim is to improve health and healthcare through the delivery of high-quality teaching and the application of challenge-led research to policy and practice. We are committed to underpinning our teaching with our internationally renowned research. It undertakes research across most areas of the discipline, with national and international collaborators and a wide range of policy and practice partners. It is a vibrant and diverse research department with an outward looking focus and a mission to undertake research that makes a difference to society.

The University has an institutional research strategy to which the Department contributes by developing strong and well-resourced research groups, one of which is the Mental Health and Addiction research group (MHARG).

The mission at MHARG is to ensure that mental health is treated with the same importance as physical health. Our focus is on prevention, early intervention, and understanding mental health issues and addictions across all stages of life and across multiple settings.

Role
The main purpose of this role is to manage all aspects of the administrative process and the pre & post award financial support service underpinning the research activities of the Mental Health & Addictions Research Group (MHARG). Pre-award covers costing research applications, checking funder rules, liaising with partners and entering data onto funder systems.

Post-award activity covers a wide variety of activity including HR (recruitment, induction, casual workers, sickness and absence monitoring), purchasing, travel and meeting arrangements and monitoring project budgets and proactively communicating with principal investigators (PIs) to ensure effective management of projects, so that funds are spent according to regulations.

The role holder will also provide specific administrative support to the Mental Health Theme of an NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) project under the direction of the theme leads Professor Simon Gilbody and Dr Lewis Paton.

Skills, Experience & Qualifications Needed

• You will need good IT and numeracy skills, experience of monitoring budgets and working with financial information, ability to manage projects and to produce consistently high-quality work.
• You will also need effective communication skills, an ability to work on your own initiative, experience of administrative processes in a busy office, organising events and diary management.
• Experience of research administration and using University systems (e.g. Worktribe, Agresso, Pure) is desirable.

For informal enquiries: please contact Oliver Short on oliver.short@york.ac.uk.

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