Programmes Officer - Birmingham, United Kingdom - University of Birmingham

University of Birmingham

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Position Details
Research Strategy and Services

Location:
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £34,980 to £44,263 with potential progression once in post to £46,974

Grade: 7

Full Time, Permanent

Closing date: 12th September 2023

Our offer to you
People are at the heart of what we are and do.

The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years, and we are equally proud to be recognised as a leading global university.

We want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond, support them to succeed, and celebrate their success.

We are committed to helping the people who work here to develop through our sector-leading Birmingham Professional programme which provides all professional services staff with development opportunities and the encouragement to reach their full potential.

With almost 5,000 professional services jobs in a wide-range of functions in Edgbaston and in our campus in Dubai, there are plenty of opportunities for you to be able to develop your career at the University.

We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation, and debate.

We warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who and what we are, and how we work.

Supporting our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance is important both to our employees and to the success of the University and, depending on the role, we offer a variety of flexible working arrangements.

We therefore welcome discussions on all forms of flexible working.

In addition, you will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 days paid holiday a year, one paid day a year for volunteering, occupational sick pay, and a pension scheme.

We also have three high quality subsidised day nurseries.

The University is situated in leafy Edgbaston and there are excellent transport links to our beautiful campus, including main bus routes and a train station on site.

On campus we have a state-of-the-art sports centre with pool, shops, places to eat and drink, our own art gallery, museum and botanical gardens.

Find out more about the benefits of working for the University of Birmingham

Background

Department overview

The Business Engagement and Research Impact (BERI) team works alongside senior Academic and Professional Services leaders to shape the University's ambitious strategy for Business Engagement, Research Impact, and Regional Innovation, and provides sector-leading expertise and drive to support the delivery of this vision, working in close collaboration with our five Colleges and a wide range of external organisations.

From supporting student placements and graduate employment, helping business to co-create innovations to achieve their own goals, and assisting researchers to achieve policy change that will improve the lives of people around the world, the team facilitates collaboration across all our research disciplines in a highly stimulating and creative work environment.

Role Summary

The University of Birmingham is an exceptional university that has set itself the ambition to be in the top 50 of the world's leading universities by 2030.

The BERI team will play a major role in this - growing the University's networks with international, national, and regional partners to grow our reputation and our research impact.

Our existing partnerships with industry, the NHS, policy organisations, and those from the public, voluntary and community sectors are achieving game-changing impact.

These partnerships further our research, enabling our academics to make crucial breakthroughs, and this was demonstrated by our strong performance in the recent REF2021.

Main Duties

Provide strategic and operational oversight of specific funds within the University's portfolio of institutional impact funding, including the design and organisation of various funding schemes, developing and strengthening partnerships with stakeholders, and identifying new opportunities for collaboration to support researchers to deliver impact from their research;
Support project planning, communications, and events management for the institutional impact funds, working with relevant Professional Services teams;
Work with academic leads to promote funding schemes, identify new opportunities to extend impact and engagement, and support a thriving culture of research impact across the University;
Manage postaward processes related to projects funded through the University's portfolio of institutional impact funding to ensure timely and efficient start dates, and to ensure that the required reporting information is obtained prior to closing completed projects;
Review and audit progress on projects and budg