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Pre-Award Development Officer (Part Time)

Job title Pre-Award Development Officer (Part Time)

Department Research and Innovation Services (RIS)

Salary Starting from £34,304, rising to £40,927 Pro Rata Per Annum

Grade Grade 7

Contract Type Part Time

Placed on Friday 15 October 2021

Closing date Sunday 07 November 2021

Interview date Tuesday 07 December 2021

Reference CH8795

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Join the Pre-Award team in Research and Innovation Services (RIS)!

About the role: 

Working as part of a small but busy team, you will play a crucial role in providing expert advice to academic researchers across the university applying for external research funding. You will ensure all research applications and awards are reviewed and developed to improve their quality and meet university and funder rules.

This role is being advertised at 0.7fte. There is flexibility in this around number of days per week this 0.7fte is worked, if that is helpful. Please feel free to contact us to discuss this prior to applying if meaningful to you in deciding whether or not this role might be right for you and your personal circumstances. 

The team is currently working fully remotely, with a view to returning to work on campus for part of the week during the academic year 2021-22, and you should therefore expect to work at least 40% of your working week on campus (however, home working is not a requirement and you may also work all hours on campus if you wish). It is strongly preferred that you are available to work Mondays on campus in order to join the weekly team meeting.

About you:

This role requires excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills along with a good understanding of the research funding landscape for the higher education sector, including familiarity with relevant sources of funding. 

You will also have:

  • skills to scrutinise sophisticated documents and draw out relevant information, with excellent attention to detail
  • good numeracy and IT skills
  • self-confidence and the ability to stand your ground, remaining calm under pressure
  • good self-motivation and time-management
  • a good Honours degree or equivalent experience

About us:

RIS is responsible for advancing the University's international reputation for research and knowledge transfer by:

  • increasing the volume of externally funded research
  • improving grant application success rates
  • improving strategic and operational support to academic departments

RIS is the primary conduit for industry, business and other funders to access the research expertise and knowledge of the University of Bath.

What we can offer you:

Our campus is surrounded by beautiful countryside, and the City of Bath with its historic charm and social activity only a short distance away creates an excellent environment in which to work. 

We are:

  • a family friendly workplace 
  • open to exploring flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the University. 
  • recognising of the talents of our diverse workforce through an excellent reward package 
  • encouraging of your personal and professional development

Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work. Follow us @UniofBath and @UniofBathJobs on Twitter for more information.

We aim to be an inclusive university, where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds leads to a better environment for our employees and students, creating a learning environment and organisational culture that enhances health and wellbeing across our community. We are very proud to have recently received Ambassadors for Autism certification and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

For any further information, please contact Lizzie Hope-Dyer, Head of Pre-Award (erh23@bath.ac.uk), however, please ensure that your application is submitted via the University website.

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We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details will be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.