Costing and Contracts Officer

About the Role
You will be part of a team providing support for academics in named School(s) or Institute(s) for pre- award requirements (vary based on any particular aspects required). Your role will be key in ensuring fast and efficient administration, with a focus on quality and responsiveness. There will be responsibility for meeting service level agreements for standard grants or agreeing response timeframes for non-standard grants or contracts. You will be expected to keep up to date with changes in that funders positions and to share knowledge amongst relevant central and school/institute-based teams.

About You
We are looking for candidate who can provide accurate, timely and relevant information to support internal and external processes (e.g. audits, consultations, committees). Someone who can ensure QM interests are maximised and understand determine contractual risk. You should be responsible for project collaboration agreements with commercial and non-commercial partner organisations within your portfolio. We also seek someone who can provide training and be able to interact with all levels.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project
The Joint Research Management Office (JRMO) supports researchers across Queen Mary, University of London and Bart’s Health NHS Trust.

Our highly trained team is on hand to support a diverse range of research activities, from getting a project off the ground to ensuring its smooth running and future development. The team members understand where their work fits into the strategic plans and goals of the organisations.

Our services include:

• Accurate project costing.
• Tender/application preparation and advice.
• Assisting with the approvals process.
• Ongoing financial management of grants and awards.
• Consultancy and research contracts.
• Assistance with ethics applications.
• Assistance with Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency applications.

About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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