Research Support Manager

Job id: 075305. Wage: £42,405 to £49,785 every year, together with London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 22 September 2023. Cut-off date: 29 October 2023.

Enterprise unit: Pure, Mathematical & Engineering Sci. Division: Engineering.

Contact particulars:Clare Cudby. [email protected]

Location: Strand Campus. Class: Skilled & Assist Providers.

Job description

The Division Analysis Assist Supervisor is a key place within the Division of Engineering, throughout the School of Pure, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences (NMES), enjoying an necessary function in managing the analysis and PGR help throughout the Division. Tasks embody line managing the Division’s Senior Analysis Assist Officer and Postgraduate Analysis Officer (PGR), offering the help and steerage they should efficiently ship of their roles, having oversight of all analysis and PGR exercise throughout the division and guaranteeing that analysis employees, teachers and PGR college students within the division obtain high-quality help.

The put up will report back to the Division Supervisor and work carefully with the Deputy Head of Division for Analysis. The put up will even work carefully with the School analysis and PGR groups.

That is at present a hybrid function and function holder would spend a part of their working week on campus and a part of the week working remotely.

Celebrating range and supporting employees is necessary to us and we provide a variety of provision together with versatile working, caring help (together with a Parenting and Carers Fund and the Carer’s Profession Growth Fund), coaching, and quite a lot of range and inclusion networks. Workers can apply for versatile working to assist them steadiness the calls for of their skilled and private commitments and we provide complete depart insurance policies for parental, adoption, surrogacy, dependant, and shared depart.

The college is making funding in NMES and each pupil and employees numbers are rising. Our employees come from over 45 nations and 56% of our college students are from outdoors the UK. Principally situated on the Strand Campus within the coronary heart of central London.

Data on the Division of Engineering and the School of Pure, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences may be discovered on the following hyperlinks:

 https://www.kcl.ac.uk/engineering 

 https://www.kcl.ac.uk/nmes 

This put up will probably be provided on an indefinite contract

This can be a full-time  put up

Key duties

• Handle and keep oversight of all analysis and PGR exercise within the Division.
• Be sure that analysis and PGR actions are compliant with inner and funder insurance policies, working carefully with central and School groups.
• Monitor, report, and analyse grant monetary and PhD studentship info.
• Advise teachers on grant and studentship funds and put together forecasts for them.
• Assist teachers and PS colleagues with the completion of quarterly, annual, and ad-hoc grant and studentship stories as required by the Faculty and funding our bodies.
• Proactively help the Pre and Put up-Award exercise of enormous/complicated grants.
• Develop and keep a excessive degree of information on analysis funder insurance policies, and college course of and coverage surrounding PGR and analysis grant administration.
• Work carefully with the PGR Officer and the School PGR Staff to help PGR administration technique and resolution making to help PGR enterprise wants.
• Present help to research-related committees or conferences as required.
• Develop understanding of the college’s analysis and PGR info and finance techniques (Worktribe, PURE, Enterprise World, SITs), and help educational {and professional} providers colleagues.
• Produce PGR and analysis administration info stories and carry out evaluation.
• Develop understanding of Open Entry publication coverage and liaise with the Library as required.
• Assist the event of a strong PGR and analysis tradition throughout NMES.
• Assist the analysis associated actions of the Enterprise & Engagement operate, together with influence & engagement.
• Add content material to and keep knowledge on the Division’s info platforms – intranet, web, SharePoint, and many others.
• Handle and help the Division’s Senior Analysis Assist Officer and PGR Officer.
• Contribute to and promote concepts that may assist enhance PGR and analysis administration help provision and methods of working.
• Preserve skilled information by attending academic workshops; reviewing skilled publications; establishing private networks and collaborating within the Analysis Administration Community {and professional} societies.
• Be a proactive member of each the Division and useful groups.
• Work carefully with colleagues from throughout the School and wider organisation within the well timed and environment friendly supply of tasks and actions.
• Deputise for the Division Supervisor as required.
• Undertake some other duties as required by the Deputy Head of Division for Analysis, Division Supervisor or School Analysis Supervisor.

The above listing of duties is probably not exhaustive, and the put up holder will probably be required to undertake such duties and duties as might fairly be anticipated throughout the scope and grading of the put up.

Abilities, information, and expertise

Important standards

1.       Expertise of supporting analysis exercise throughout the Increased Training sector and a robust understanding of the analysis funding panorama

2.       Wonderful IT abilities, together with Workplace, Home windows, databases and many others.

3.       Wonderful written, oral and interpersonal communication abilities, with the power to speak clearly and appropriately with employees in any respect ranges, inside and out of doors the organisation.

4.       Extremely numerate with confirmed monetary administration and analytical abilities

5.       Skill to steadiness competing, shifting priorities underneath stress of deadlines and workload.

6.       Expertise of coping with budgetary and monetary processes, ideally referring to analysis funding

7.       Expertise of utilizing and manipulating digital sources

8.       Expertise of manufacturing detailed stories utilizing complicated knowledge from a variety of sources

9.       Skill to work independently and as a part of a workforce.

10.     Accuracy/means to concentrate to element.

Fascinating standards

1.       Educated to first diploma degree or equal.

2.       Expertise of supporting PGR exercise in a HEI

3.       Expertise of line administration

Interviews will probably be held in-person at our Strand Campus in central London.

We ask all candidates to submit a replica of their CV, and a supporting assertion, detailing how they meet the important standards listed within the advert. If we obtain a robust discipline of candidates, we might use the fascinating standards to decide on our last shortlist, so please embody your proof in opposition to these the place attainable.