Head of Research Support and Development - London, United Kingdom - UCL Eastman Dental Institute

Description

About the role

This role requires the provision of a high quality and specialist support and advisory service for the costing and pricing of UCL's research and innovation activities, as well as governance and compliance considerations.

It also requires someone with an extensive and detailed knowledge of UCL's research and innovation portfolio, and to have excellent knowledge of the HE funding landscape, as well as specialist pre-award research management.

For more details about the role, please see Job description and person specification.

About you

The post holder will be based in the RIS Pre-Award team and will be responsible for ensuring that UCL's research grant applications to external research funders havebeen developed in line with relevant UCL and funder requirements, assessing successful applications against terms offered and setting up awards in UCL financial systems. Key to success of this post will be the ability to forge close and proactive working relationships across the RIS teams, and with UCL academics, departmental staff, as well as external collaborators and funders. The post holder will line-manage a small team of Research Support Officers and will be responsible for their development, measuringperformance, support and workload review. For more details about the skills required, please see Job description and person specification.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

41 Days holiday (including 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)

Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)

Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan

On-Site nursery

On-site gym

Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay

Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service

Discounted medical insurance