Assistant Research Officer (Temporary contract)
London (remote working until further notice)
£31,950 per annum (pro-rata) + benefits
Full time, contract until 30th September 2021 (possible extension), immediate start
Closing date: 5pm, Monday 12th April
Interviews: w/c 19th April
£31,950 per annum (pro-rata) + benefits
Full time, contract until 30th September 2021 (possible extension), immediate start
Closing date: 5pm, Monday 12th April
Interviews: w/c 19th April
Organisation:
Highly regarded independent charity focused on health and health care in the UK
Highly regarded independent charity focused on health and health care in the UK
Role:
The Assistant Research Officer is a key member of the organisation’s Research Team, ensuring research management processes are carried out to a high standard, supporting research grant holders manage their projects and supporting the dissemination of research findings.
In this role you will:
The Assistant Research Officer is a key member of the organisation’s Research Team, ensuring research management processes are carried out to a high standard, supporting research grant holders manage their projects and supporting the dissemination of research findings.
In this role you will:
- Support effective contract management, award administration and project management of a portfolio of research grants and commissioned research projects
- Support the tendering, contracting and commissioning process
- Support events management for external stakeholder events
- Ensure high quality processes, information and communication to support the work of the Research Team.
Candidate:
- Highly effective organisational skills including the ability to work on a number of tasks and issues concurrently and to work effectively under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Proactive management of workload including forward planning, prioritisation across different areas of work, anticipating the administrative support required for agreed team activities and a problem-solving approach
- Strong communication skills, both written and oral and the ability to communicate with confidence with internal and external stakeholders at all levels
- Experience of organising and managing meetings and events, including online as well as for in-person events
- High level proficiency across standard software programmes for documentation, presentations, spreadsheets, data bases, electronic diary systems
- Experience of delivering tendering or contracting processes
- Experience of working in a grant-making organisation (desirable).
To be considered for this role, please email your CV to tim@whitonmaynard.com