JRMO Operations Administrator

About the Role

This role is to provide administrative support to the Joint Research Management Office (JRMO) to operate efficiently and effectively within the two organizations- Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS Trust. The emphasis will be on managing the office and supporting the Head of JRMO Departments.

About You

For this role you will need to be educated to Degree level, have experience in a secretarial or administrative role, and be an excellent communicator, able to foster effective working relationships with colleagues and contacts at all levels both internally to Queen Mary and Barts Health NHS Trust, and also externally.

You will need to be able to plan your own workload, juggling competing pressures and deadlines, having excellent discretion, confidentiality and diplomacy skills.

About the Department

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.
  •    Support with Research Integrity matters.
  •    Assistance with Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency applications.
  •    International Research and Innovation Partnership Support including Export Control, Trusted Research and Partner Due Diligence.

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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