Senior Research Administrator

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £28,397 to £30,210, with potential progression once in post to £33,938

Contract Type: Fixed Term contract up to March 2027

Role Summary

This position will offer operational and financial administrative support to the research group led by Professor Yu-Lung Chiu. You will be responsible for coordinating the daily administration of the research group, ensuring milestones are achieved, reporting to research partners, organize meetings, prepare necessary documentation, take minutes and serve as the primary contact for both internal and external stakeholders.

Main Duties

• You will be able to deal with complex systems and procedures and will be expected to offer advice on these, including deciding on the response to more complex queries.
• You will be expected to provide regular financial reports on grants finances, and offer support to the Principal Investigator on making decisions on the grant spend.
• You will be expected to exercise your judgment on the answer to queries or on the direction of work within parameters set by your manager and principal investigator. On a day to day basis you will be expected to resolve more complex queries without necessarily referring to your manager, liaise with various stakeholders and maintain permanent contact with partner institutions, ensure milestones of the projects are met and upload them in the appropriate systems.
• You will attend meetings, prepare all necessary documentation for the meetings and take minutes.
• You will be expected to act as a role model and coach members of the team and provide administrative advice to students and researchers.

Person Specification

• Educated to A Level standard, or equivalent level 3 qualification such as a Level 3 NVQ, or level 3 national diploma or relevant work experience evidencing the skills and ability to undertake the role. 
• Minimum of grade C/4 in Mathematics and English at GCSE or equivalent.
• Proven experience in finance and managing budgets.
• Proven experience in supporting projects.
• Highly proficient IT skills, in particular the ability to handle complex electronic diaries and emails, the wider MS Office suite of programmes including Excel and PowerPoint, and some experience of using an enterprise resource planning package. The post holder should also be confident and able to quickly learn new IT skills and software packages as required.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to understand policy and procedures and how to apply these.
• Understands the importance of equality and diversity in the workplace.

Informal enquiries can be made to Irina Hoffman, email: i.hoffman@bham.ac.uk 

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Closes: 05/01/2025

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