Research Administrator - Birmingham, United Kingdom - University of Birmingham

University of Birmingham

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Position Details
School of Biosciences

Location:
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £28,397 to £30,210, with potential progression once in post to £33,938

Grade: 5

Part Time (18 working hours weekly)

Fixed Term contract up to May 2025

Closing date: 29th May 2024

This role is also open as an internal secondment opportunity which would need to be agreed by your current line manager.

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

This post will be held in the School of Biosciences and is central to supporting research staff with large grant bids.

Role Summary

Reporting to the School Operations Manager, you will be assigned to support academic staff in the School of Biosciences on their research tasks as required.

Main Duties

You will be able to deal with complex systems and procedures and will be expected to offer advice on these, including deciding on the response to more complex queries.
You will be expected to exercise your judgment on the answer to queries or on the direction of work within parameters set by your manager. On a day to day basis you will be expected to resolve more complex queries without necessarily referring to your manager.
Although you will not be working in a supervisory role you will still be expected to act as a role model and coach members of the wider team.
Maintain high profile working relationships with key stakeholders on your own initiative, fielding enquiries and ensuring that appropriate information is disseminated to stakeholders as appropriate.
You may be involved in organising events including booking a venue, sending invitations, arranging refreshments, liaising with speakers or a team of internal and external academics, manage bookings, coordination of colleagues, advertising, taking and collating minutes in meetings and reporting back, providing communications support to the academic team leader.
Will manage some smaller projects on own initiative, but will also carry out desk research and source data from internal and external sources in order to contribute to wider projects.
You will be expected to use a variety of complex University systems and processes to research, analyse and interpret complex data, producing bespoke reports as required. This may include identifying and resolving issues with the data.
Support the management, development and implementation of operational processes and systems.
Process more complex data (which may be financial, HR, studentrelated or other), monitoring accuracy, chasing up missing information, and resolving any issues as appropriate.
Provide specialist advice and training to colleagues on area of activity.
As required, provide a professional secretarial service to relevant committees and meetings.
You may be required to be responsible for one or more of the following:
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