KINGS COLLEGE LONDON: Analysis Funding Affiliate

Job description

We’re on the lookout for a brand new member of the Pre-Award Workplace within the Analysis Grants and Contracts division at King’s Faculty London. The submit holder will:  

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• present environment friendly and efficient pre-award service for members of King’s Faculty London employees who’re engaged in research. 
• have delegated authority and duty inside sure limitations to arrange and submit official prices on behalf of the Faculty.  
• approve and submit research functions.  
• settle for grants awarded. 
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• negotiate contractual situations and contribute in direction of the formulation of coverage on research matter and in addition develop (or proceed to develop) their very own experience in research funding.

The Pre-Award Well being Workforce helps the Colleges of Life Science and Medication, Dental, Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care, and Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience and every workforce member manages a portfolio of initiatives throughout the Colleges.

This submit might be completely primarily based with the Well being Workforce. Workplaces are primarily based at London Bridge and Denmark Hill.

King’s has a hybrid working coverage and the submit will primarily be primarily based at Man’s Campus, nevertheless flexibility is required to be at any Campus the place wanted. Flexibility close to location of labor will subsequently be required. 

This submit might be provided on an indefinite contract.

It is a part-time submit – 80% full time equal.

Key obligations

• To test costing and draft functions of funding proposals for research grants and provides educational employees correct, clear recommendation on associated issues, college coverage on oblique price restoration and the presentation of figures in research proposals.  
• To offer sound, constructive recommendation to educational employees making use of for research grant funding, together with: – costing and pricing grant proposals, funders’ rules, college polices, King’s Well being Companion Trusts’ necessities, publication, legal and mental property issues. 
• To test and formally approve research proposals for his or her compliance with college insurance policies and the foundations and rules of funders. 
• To develop an experience in particular funding our bodies, particularly their software processes and programs in addition to their funding phrases and situations. 
• To disseminate info on related college coverage and procedures and clarify them, as acceptable, to educational and research assist employees, together with collaborating in seminars, as obligatory and offering related coaching for tutorial and native administrative employees on an advert hoc foundation. 
• To work intently with different sections of RMID and native educational administrative employees throughout the college to make sure (i) a top quality, constant and built-in strategy and response to research assist and (ii) that the pre-award grants workforce has a well-managed interface with different sections of the Division, the college and its accomplice NHS Basis Trusts. 
• To make sure that correct, up-to-date and correct data of functions and awards are maintained by the entire pre-award workforce, and enter, validate and monitor materials uploaded to college info programs, equivalent to Worktribe.  To be answerable for the accuracy and integrity of research-related information of their space and contribute to the preparation of stories and analyses of exercise. 
• To organize draft collaboration agreements and different associated agreements for research initiatives from Analysis Grants & Contracts templates (together with the Brunswick templates) and develop working information of the right way to use them.  
• To barter collaboration agreements and subcontracts with exterior companions concerned in research initiatives. 
• To be personally answerable for their very own work and to check with their line-manager on advanced issues of coverage and/or legal issues. 
• To undertake such different duties as are in step with the function, as required by their line supervisor and to work throughout such campuses as could also be required. 

The above record of obligations is probably not exhaustive, and the submit holder might be required to undertake such duties and obligations as might moderately be anticipated inside the scope and grading of the submit.

Abilities, information, and expertise

Important standards  

1. Related work expertise in research funding administration 
2. Skill to analyse and current info with a deal with particular necessities of funding schemes 
3. Information of research funding panorama within the UK and/or internationally, together with information of grants and funders necessities 
4. Understanding of the UK and European college surroundings 
5. Capable of produce extremely correct budgets according to funder pointers, and sensible, sound numeracy expertise 
6. Wonderful interpersonal and communication skills and the flexibility to work together with a variety of individuals in a optimistic and useful method while being able to firmly sustaining college insurance policies 
7. Confirmed organisational and administrative expertise 
8. Demonstrably excessive ranges of accuracy and a spotlight to element 
9. Skill to work effectively underneath stress and to have the ability to prioritise their work within the face of continually shifting priorities and tight deadlines 
10. Good analytical and sensible drawback fixing expertise

Fascinating standards

1. Diploma or equal skilled qualification or equal expertise 
2. Direct expertise dealing with the pre-award elements of research funding mechanisms in a college 
3. Information of full financial costing methodology 
4. Familiarity with scientific research initiatives, together with scientific trials administration and expertise of working with NHS Trusts.