Funding Assurance Officer - Wallingford, United Kingdom - Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

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Wallingford, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

15-Month Fixed Term Appointment, Full-Time (37 hours per week), Part-Time hours and/or job share could be considered

Hybrid working options available

Preferred location:
Wallingford

Alternative locations:
Lancaster, Edinburgh and Bangor

Salary:
£34,562 - £36,556 (dependent on skills and experience)

We are an independent, notforprofit research institute. Home to 600 scientists, supported by our experienced professional service teams, we provide the data and insights that researchers, governments, and businesses need to tackle some of the major environmental challenges we face today.
We want you to love what you do whilst looking after yourself, so we support you with excellent benefits such as:
27 days annual leave
Above standard pension contributions
Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
A flexible approach to work, enabling you to maintain a healthy work/life balance
24 hour, 365day access to support with physical, mental, social, health or financial issues
Plus loads more

A bit about you...

You are calm, analytical, logical and methodical. You have a high level of attention to detail. You are able to absorb large quantities of information and provide clear and succinct advice, balancing our need to further our charitable objectives whilst balancing risk. You will be resolutely solution focused. You will be driven to ensure that our dealings with our partners are transparent and enable us to continue our research whilst safeguarding our reputation.

You will help us ensure that our research is ethically responsible and delivered in accordance with our values. You will help us build and maintain partnerships built on the highest possible integrity.

You are efficient, agile and organised and will coordinate and complete due diligence checks on third party research partners, while collating responses to external requests for due diligence and research ethics assessments.

You will be an excellent communicator as you'll liaise internally with all parties at all levels and externally with parties within the UK and internationally.

In this role you'll also provide secretarial support to the Research Ethics Committee.

Main Responsibilities

To undertake risk based due diligence covering financial governance, operational and reputation issues and support/coordinate the Research Ethics Committee.

Due Diligence:

Coordinate and undertake due diligence checks on third party research organisations
Act as a main point of contact, responding to internal and external queries regarding due diligence
Assist with the completion of due diligence requests and checks by external parties
Liaise with our Procurement team, supporting with supplier due diligence
Provide upwards reporting to Directors or the board as required and support QA/auditing requirements
Maintain document storage, archiving systems and uptodate due diligence processes and policy documentation

Research Ethics:

Secretarial support to the chair and members of the research ethics committee
Administration of the budget
Acting as the main point of contact, responding to internal queries
Maintaining the document storage and archiving systems
Liaising with the relevant director and quality assurance manager in the event of any reported misconduct, complaints, events or incidences

Here are some essential skills we are looking for:

Experience working in an office environment
Confident in handling confidential information and working to specific data security guidelines
Extracting taskrelevant information using translation tool/software

We would be delighted if you also had the following skills/experience:

Previous experience in due diligence and/or funding assurance checks
Working with HEI/science research type organisations
Accounting or financial experience and/or legal or contractual experience
Knowledge/experience using Workday

If you are excited about joining us, please send us your CV and covering letter, telling us how amazing you would be for this role, by clicking the "apply" button.

If you would like to make an informal query about this role, please contact Jack O'Brien- )

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