Are you customer focussed and excited about delivering an outstanding service to customers? Do you have experience of providing research finance administrative support in addition to exceptional organisational skills? Do you want to join a team supporting academics and clinicians with research grant management?
As a highly motivated, proactive individual you will be responsible for providing research grant management support to the Academics and Research Manager within the Faculty of Medicine & Health with a focus on pre award and grants management.
The team deals with a large volume of research grant applications and awards. You will work closely with the academics and senior finance administrators/ research managers to assist with costings to obtain funding for research and Knowledge Transfer (KT) activity with the Faculty. In particular you will be the Faculty contact and source of knowledge on all matters relating to costing of projects, liaising with funders and day to day grant management and operational matters.
You will need to show a high level of attention to detail and have the ability to organise, prioritise and work to tight deadlines. You will have a high level of interpersonal, communication and organisational skills and to be able to work on your own using your initiative, flexibly, proactively in a busy environment. We also require good problem solving skills to work through complex issues.
This post will be based in the Clinical Sciences Building at the St James’s Hospital site.
To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:
Lynn Bulmer, Faculty Research Manager
Tel: +44 (0)113 3437832, Email: l.bulmer@leeds.ac.uk
Further Information
The University of Leeds is committed to providing equal opportunities for all and offers a range of family friendly policies. The University is a charter member of Athena SWAN and holds the Bronze award. We will be happy to consider job share applications and are committed to flexible working for all our employees.
Closing Date: 06 Jan 2019
Category: Administrative and Clerical Support
