Funding Manager

Contract Type: Open Ended

Location: Polaris House, Swindon, Wiltshire - Hybrid working with 2/3 days in the office a week.

Overall purpose: 

You will contribute to the MRC mission as a funder improving human health through world class medical research, by helping to deliver MRC funding through research grants. You will work closely with other administrative support colleagues as well as wider team members in a supportive and collaborative environment to contribute to team objectives. 

The successful candidate will provide administrative and managerial support to MRC’s Boards and Panels team which delivers the peer review and management of MRC’s research grants applications. 

Specific tasks include: 

• Responsibility for the end-to-end grant awarding process including oversight of the peer review process, funding meetings and post meeting activities
• Attending and Participating in Funding Meetings
• Line Management of a small team (2-3) with responsibility for attendance and performance management, supporting career development and training, completing yearly appraisals.
• Working within the cross Board and Panel resourcing matrix, manage strategic funding calls and task manage a small funding call team
• Collaborate with peers to deliver a flexible approach to resource management across all MRC funding schemes.
• Ensure the team is operating in a consistent and effective manner supporting continuous process improvement
• Support the monitoring and evaluation of the Board/Panel’s portfolio of MRC funded research by undertaking coding and classification for relevant 

Selection Criteria:

• Experience of leading/managing others to deliver activities, following agreed processes, within timescales
• Experience of managing people – line manager or task manager
• Excellent written skills including experience in drafting correspondence, papers/briefings and minute taking tailored appropriately to the audience
• Excellent verbal communication skills enabling clear, effective, and engaging interactions.
• Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills with evidence of effective teamwork
• A proven ability to work with ambiguity and change, sometimes managing difficult situations by utilising excellent problem-solving skills
• Excellent self-motivation and proactiveness in using initiative to deliver results
• A good understanding of peer review in research funding
• Good analytical skills including numerical skills, able to query databases and analyse data accurately
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office – including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel

Interviews will take place in person at UKRI, Polaris House, Swindon

Benefits

We recognise and value our employees as individuals and aim to provide a favourable pay and rewards package! We’re committed to supporting employees' development and promote a culture of continuous learning!

• An outstanding defined benefit pension scheme
• 30 days' annual leave in addition to 10.5 public and privilege days (full time equivalent)
• Employee discounts and offers on retail and leisure activities
• Employee assistance programme, providing confidential help and advice
• Flexible working options

Plus, many more benefits and wellbeing initiatives that enable our employees to have a great work life balance!

UKRI is an Equal Opportunity & Disability Confident Employer.

How to apply:

Please submit an application including your CV and a Cover Letter that showcases how your skills and experience align to the requirements of the role (via the ‘Apply’ button above).

A well thought through application providing evidence and examples of how you meet the advertised essential and desirable criteria for the post will be considered far more favourably than a generic covering letter and CV.

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