Consultant

British Council

We help peace and prosperity by constructing connections, understanding and belief between folks within the UK and nations worldwide.

We work instantly with people to assist them acquire the talents, confidence and connections to rework their lives and form a greater world in partnership with the UK. We help them to construct networks and discover inventive concepts, to study English, to get a high-quality training and to realize internationally recognised {qualifications}.

Working with folks in over 200 nations and territories, we’re on the bottom in additional than 100 nations. In 202122 we reached 650 million folks.

Guide, Science: Worldwide Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF)

Pay Band: 7

Wage: Beginning 30,839 (+ 3,300 market allowance if based mostly in London)
Contract Sort:Fastened time period till the tip of March 2025, with the potential of extension

Location:UK; Cardiff, London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Belfast.

Necessities:Candidates should have the pre-existing (everlasting) proper to work in location.
Mobility / relocation / visa sponsoring help is not going to be supplied.

Advantages embrace, however aren’t restricted to:

  • 32 days annual depart, along with public holidays
  • 3 days volunteering depart
  • Profession common outlined profit pension scheme
  • An unrivalled alternative so that you can get to make use of all of the expertise you’ve got constructed up working in and / or main international organisations to help us in constructing belief internationally!

Cut-off date:Wednesday thirteenth December, 11:59pm UK time.

Context

The British Council helps to develop stronger, extra inclusive, and internationally related Larger Schooling programs which help financial and social progress within the UK and globally. We create instructional alternatives and help enhancements to increased training worldwide, specializing in shared challenges of high quality, inclusion and internationalisation. We do that by participating establishments, coverage makers, training leaders, lecturers, researchers and college students in dialogue, partnerships, mobility and change.

Worldwide Science Partnerships Fund

The International Science Partnerships Fund is designed to allow potential and foster prosperity. The multi-year, multi-disciplinary fund places analysis and innovation on the coronary heart of our worldwide relationships, supporting UK researchers and innovators to work with friends all over the world on the key themes of our time: planet, well being, tech, and expertise. The fund is managed by the Division for Science, Innovation and Know-how (DSIT) and delivered by a consortium of the UKs main analysis and innovation our bodies. The British Council is likely one of the companions delivering the programme on behalf of DSIT.

Position Function

The Guide ISPF position will present integral operational help to the Senior Guide (ISPF) and to the ISPF administration staff with particular duty for the next key areas of labor:

  1. Duty for the day after day working of the ISPF Grant Administration Software (GMT), together with organising coaching, troubleshooting and making certain all the information stays in line with British Council requirements and GDPR.
  2. Overseeing the coordination of ISPF grant calls, directing the staff, and liaising with exterior stakeholders.
  3. Helping with all facets of the Worldwide Science Partnerships Fund, making certain compliance with venture administration requirements (together with dangers and points, resourcing, information administration), company insurance policies and in accordance with key contractual and reporting obligations from the shopper – the Division for Science, Innovation and Know-how.
  4. Contributing to the part out levels and last closure of all Newton Fund exercise (2014-2024), making certain that classes realized are captured and all related reporting documentation is accessible for dissemination and future suggestions.
  5. Supporting the Senior Guide with reviewing classes realized to feed into the design and form of the brand new Worldwide Science Partnership Fund (ISPF).
  6. Offering monetary assurance and narrative updates in opposition to allotted areas of ISPF exercise utilizing RODA and different inside grant administration instruments.
  7. Liaising with exterior stakeholders and clients; representing the British Council/ISPF staff at inside/exterior conferences as required.
  8. Serving to to create templates, schedules and related documentation as directed by the Senior Guide to operationalise the brand new Worldwide Science Partnership Fund (ISPF).

Most important accountabilities

Operational Supply

  • Helps the closure of the Newton Fund programme making certain compliance with inside enterprise assurance wants and aligning with core necessities round reporting, resourcing, monitoring and analysis and worth for cash as stipulated by the shopper.
  • Works collaboratively with and helps country-based colleagues and the UK-facing staff to make sure consistency of method and joined up methods of working, that reporting deadlines are met, and monetary administration programs/admin trackers and instruments are managed successfully to file spend.
  • Prioritises work and resolves day-to-day working useful resource points for a nominated staff, to make sure excessive high quality, constant and environment friendly companies are delivered.
  • Makes use of digital platforms and technological developments to enhance effectivity, impression and high quality of venture supply.

Relationship & Stakeholder Administration

  • Interprets agreed company/regional customer support and shopper administration methods into acceptable native operational insurance policies and procedures.
  • Ensures that buyer suggestions is often gathered, analysed and acted upon to drive steady enhancements in buyer expertise.
  • Work carefully with universities and analysis organisations within the UK and accomplice nations on any points arising from programme supply.

Threat & compliance

  • Makes use of standardised processes to observe staff compliance with agreed company danger administration procedures related to service supply (e.g. EDI, safeguarding, anti-racism, safety insurance policies, monetary protocols, anti-fraud measures, cyber safety) to guard the pursuits of the British Council and its clients always. Highlights to Senior Guide any situations of non-compliance.
  • Ensures staff members obtain and preserve acceptable induction/coaching in all related danger administration procedures.
  • Makes use of normal company protocols to evaluate a spread of dangers to programme legacy work and closure. Makes acceptable contingency plans to handle supply safely and successfully in difficult or high-risk circumstances.

Evaluation & reporting

  • Use administration info, evaluation and private working expertise to establish and make suggestions on enhancements to methods of working, processes, procedures and/or sources that may improve effectivity and effectiveness as a part of the event and supply of the brand new international programme.
  • Ensures information assortment on venture/programme supply that helps accountability, decision-making and studying together with on EDI points.
  • Conducts evaluation utilizing a spread of normal methodologies and throughout a number of datasets to offer top quality and evidence-based suggestions on procedural enhancements and/or spotlight useful resource necessities wanted to boost operational efficiency.

Industrial and/or monetary administration

  • Liaises with the worldwide Worldwide Science Partnerships Fund staff and the Finance Enterprise Accomplice to make sure alignment with SAP figures and RODA.
  • Opinions spend in opposition to forecast and plan utilizing the DSIT RODA reporting instrument and stories any variations and/or anomalies to the Senior Guide.

Management & administration

  • Actively applies teaching, efficiency suggestions and illness/absence administration strategies to maximise employees productiveness and motivation in a excessive quantity/pressurised supply surroundings.
  • Could contribute to the event, supply or commissioning of externally equipped coaching help to take care of and enhance operational effectiveness of colleagues on a spread of service/product/programme delivery-related subjects.
  • Shares intelligence and concepts to help senior managers in figuring out/ creating / implementing new or improved operational plans.

Equality, Range and Inclusion

  • Pay attention to your personal unconscious biases and their impression and discover methods to scale back them, take motion in opposition to bias and discrimination.
  • Contain folks from numerous backgrounds in your work and make choices with an appreciation of the experiences and boundaries for folks from totally different equality backgrounds.
  • Contribute to an inclusive and anti-racist organisational tradition, so that individuals really feel valued and are handled equitably, with help for peoples well-being and psychological well being.
  • Perceive the British Councils method to equality, variety and inclusion and the way it applies to your position, and find time for studying and growth.

Position particular information and expertise

  • Expertise in utilizing expertise successfully within the office.
  • Demonstrated information and expertise of venture administration, significantly client-funded and/or partnership tasks.
  • Expertise of delivering grant calls.
  • Expertise of managing groups and tasks consistent with Undertaking Administration requirements.
  • Motivation and dedication to Equality, Range and Inclusion and anti-racism demonstrated by and understanding of the British Councils method of equality concerns related to the position, and examples of behaviours and choices of actions that contribute to a extra inclusive organisational tradition or to a extra inclusive programme, product, or service.

Position particular abilities

  • Assured consumer of knowledge expertise (Phrase; Excel; PowerPoint), Microsoft 365 performance and dealing information of British Council SAP system (aptitude if recruiting externally)
  • In a position to handle supply of digital occasions on primary platforms (Microsoft Groups) making certain all venture requirements are met, together with these for accessibility and safeguarding.
  • Nicely-organised, in a position to decide venture priorities in any respect levels, to develop and talk work plans, to trace progress in the direction of targets and use information and proof to evaluate achievement.
  • Potential to analyse equality points related to tasks/programmes and establish alternatives to deal with these within the supply.

Cut-off date:Wednesday thirteenth December, 11:59pm UK time.

Further info: Interviews might be held early January 2024

A related and trusted UK in a extra related and trusted world.

Equality , Range, and Inclusion(EDI) Assertion

The British Council is dedicated to insurance policies and practices of equality, variety and inclusion throughout all the pieces we do. We help all employees to verify their behaviour is in line with this dedication. We need to handle below illustration and encourage candidates from under-represented teams, specifically, however not solely, on grounds of ethnicity and incapacity. All disabled candidates who meet the important standards are assured an interview and we have now Incapacity Assured Employer Standing. We welcome discussions about particular necessities or changes to allow participation and engagement in our work and actions.

The British Council iscommitted to safeguarding youngsters, younger folks and adults who we work with.

We imagine that every one youngsters and adults all over the place on the earth should stay in protected environments and have the correct to be protected against all types of abuse, maltreatment and exploitation as set out in article 19, UNCRC (United Nations Conference on the Rights of the Youngster) 1989.

Appointment to positions the place there’s direct involvement with weak teams might be depending on thorough checks being accomplished; these will embrace qualification checks, reference checks, id & legal file checks consistent with authorized necessities and with the British Councils Safeguarding insurance policies for Adults and Youngsters.

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