Costing and Contracts Officer

About the Role
This role will be part of a team providing support for academics in named School(s) or Institute(s) for pre-award financial and contractual requirements (varying based on any specific aspects required). This role is key in ensuring fast and efficient research support administration, with a focus on quality and responsiveness, such as

• producing a realistic price for the proposal
• drafting and reviewing contracts 
• interacting with funders, Lead Researchers and Principal Investigators 
• ensuring the entered costs adhere to the funder’s guidelines 

Additionally, this role will be responsible for meeting service level agreements for standard grants or agreeing response timeframes for non-standard grants or contracts. 

About You
You will have experience of working in a research funding or costing role, within either HEI or NHS Trust organisation, with knowledge of research funding available for researchers in either. This experience would include budget construction, using a HEI/NHS research funding costing tool, and a working knowledge of TRAC and FEC financial methodologies. 

As part of your experience of drafting, reviewing and completing research contracts, you would have used your proficiency in Word, Excel and the relevant research grant management software, and your ability to pay meticulous attention to detail.

Your effective interpersonal and verbal communication skills enable you to build relationships with staff at all levels and you exercise tact, diplomacy or be assertive where needed, and your strong organisation and planning skills allows you to prioritise your own workload.

About the Department
The Joint Research Management Office (JRMO) supports researchers across Queen Mary, University of London and Bart’s Health NHS Trust.

Our highly trained team is on hand to support a diverse range of research activities, from getting a project off the ground to ensuring its smooth running and future development. The team members understand where their work fits into the strategic plans and goals of the organisations.

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.

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, campus facilities and flexible working arrangements.

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.

Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality

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