The University of Birmingham is seeking a Research Development Officer to provide support to researchers within specific Schools across all aspects of pre-award research support, including proactive research development, research agreements, and partnership building. The successful candidate will work collaboratively within a team to help researchers develop and secure external research grants, and provide expert guidance on funder terms and conditions, costing and pricing, due diligence of external partners, and submission processes.
Requirements
- Educated to Degree level (or equivalent qualifications) plus significant relevant practical experience
- Evidence of literacy and numeracy, with the ability to write clearly for a variety of audiences, and to produce and analyse source material, information and data
- Knowledge of the UK research funding ecosystem, key research funders and an understanding of their processes
- Detailed knowledge and experience of providing research support across research grants and/or agreements, ideally in a Higher Education setting
- Experience of successfully leading/coordinating the development of research grants and/or research agreements
- Skills or experience of effectively identifying and assessing risk and proposing suitable mitigating steps
- Experience of developing/negotiating budgets and/or agreement terms
- Excellent analytical skills with an ability to analyse complex qualitative and quantitative information and present conclusions clearly and concisely to senior audiences, internal and external
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and negotiate effectively with a range of internal and external stakeholders in order to convey policies or decisions, and to influence decisions
- Proficient IT skills, including the MS Office suite and corporate systems such as WorkTribe
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with proven experience of working successfully as part of a team including engaging with peers and staff, within an academic, public sector or commercial research environment
- High level of self-motivation and personal accountability with ability to plan and deliver goals to deadlines under pressure and set priorities for a wide range of tasks and duties for the role holder and others
- Experience of championing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and ability to monitor and evaluate the extent to which equality and diversity legislation, policies, procedures are applied
- Ability to identify issues with the potential to impact on protected groups and take appropriate action
Benefits
- 40 days paid holiday a year
- one paid day a year for volunteering
- occupational sick pay
- pension scheme
- three high quality subsidised day nurseries
