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UCL is a world-leading research-intensive university, often ranked in the top ten in the world, with an annual turnover of well over £1 billion. Our research and innovation continue to grow in scale and complexity with record levels of research income and impact achieved last year.
Research and Innovation Services provides support and services for our academics working across the research and innovation life cycle with a focus on applying for and managing funding, and providing professional advice on collaborations and contracts.
The directorate is comprised of four teams; Award Services, Contract Services, Planning, Insight and Improvement, and Compliance and Assurance, who all work together to deliver a service to support, advise and provide expertise to our academic community for our extensive and varied portfolio of externally funded projects.
Award Services provides a range specialist advice to UCL's externally funded research and innovation portfolio through the departments of: Research Support & Development (Pre-award); European Research and Innovation Office; Research Finance and Compliance (Post-award). The service is delivered in partnership with academic and professional services colleagues across UCL, collaborating organisations, and funders.
About the role
This is a great opportunity to learn about research post-award function in a research-intensive environment by getting involved in different aspects across the spectrum of tasks. You will provide a comprehensive and high quality post award management service to the rest of the post-award team to ensure financial reporting to funders is compliant with funders' terms and conditions.
The post-holder will be responsible for ensuring the work is conducted to the highest possible standards of accuracy, timeliness and to the satisfaction of all key stakeholders.
This role is eligible for hybrid working with a minimum of 20% on site.
About you
You will be willing to learn about post-award research funding or have already experience of financial management in a higher education context. You will have good knowledge of using financial programmes like Oracle and/or Microsoft Excel programme. Good organisational skills and excellent communication is also essential.
A job description and person specification can be accessed at the bottom of this page. If you have any queries about the role, please contact j.fevrier@ucl.ac.uk
Please use the cover-letter upload to option to address all the person specification points demonstrating how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.
What we offer
- 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
- Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
- Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
- Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
- Immigration loan
- Relocation scheme for certain posts
- On-Site nursery
- On-site gym
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
- Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
- Discounted medical insurance
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.
We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.
These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.
You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/
