Senior Grants and Contracts Manager

The College

At Durham College we’re pleased with our individuals.  A globally excellent centre of instructional excellence, a collegiate neighborhood of extraordinary individuals, a singular and historic setting – Durham is a college like no different. We imagine that inspiring our individuals to do excellent issues at Durham allows Durham individuals to do excellent issues professionally and personally.  
Throughout the College now we have an enormous number of roles and profession alternatives, which collectively make us a big and profitable neighborhood, which is a key hub of exercise inside our area and nationally.  We’d be thrilled if you happen to would take into account becoming a member of our thriving College. Additional details about the College will be discovered right here

The Function and Division

Analysis and Innovation Providers (RIS) supplies steering, professional recommendation and hands-on help for all elements of analysis and research-related work, together with securing funding, working with companions, enterprise data trade, demonstrating impression, commercialising outputs, making certain good analysis apply and supporting skilled improvement. 

It is a key administration place throughout the Analysis Operations Staff which is the biggest staff throughout the RIS Directorate. The Operations Staff includes three sub groups;: pre award help, contracting help and put up award help, and supplies specialist steering to lecturers {and professional} help colleagues throughout the lifecycle of a analysis venture.

The put up holder will lead a staff of six Analysis Grants and Contracts Managers and you’ll play a vital position within the improvement and coaching of the employees you handle, appearing as some extent of escalation and reviewing and implementing key enterprise processes. A radical understanding of the UK HEI analysis funding panorama is important.

The put up holder may also have accountability for working alongside educational employees, venture managing the preparation and submission of huge complicated bids by contributing to the proposal improvement, offering costings, and offering specialist recommendation on funder eligibility standards while making certain compliance with college coverage.

Reporting to the Head of Analysis Operations, you can be a key member of the Senior Administration Staff. This presents an thrilling alternative for somebody who’s trying to transfer right into a administration position.

Additional details about the position and the obligations is on the backside of this job description.

Working at Durham 

A aggressive wage is just one a part of the numerous implausible advantages you’ll obtain if you happen to be a part of the College: additionally, you will obtain entry to the next implausible advantages: 

• 30 Days annual go away per yr along with 8 public holidays and 4 customary days per yr – a complete of 42 days per yr.  
• The College closes between Christmas and New Yr.
• We provide a beneficiant pension scheme, As a brand new member of employees you can be robotically enrolled into this College Superannuation Scheme (USS).
• Regardless of the way you journey to work, now we have you coated.  We have now parking throughout campus, a cycle to work scheme which lets you purchase a motorcycle and low cost with native bus and practice corporations.
• There’s a real dedication to creating our colleagues professionally and personally.  There’s a complete vary of improvement programs, apprenticeships and entry to {qualifications} and routes to develop your profession within the College.  All employees have devoted annual time to focus on their private improvement alternatives. 
• A lot of help for well being and wellbeing together with discounted membership for our state-of-the-art sport and health club services and entry to a 24-7 Worker Help Programme.
• On website nursery is offered and entry to vacation camps for kids aged 5-16 all year long.
• Household pleasant insurance policies, together with maternity and adoption go away, that are among the many most beneficiant within the larger training sector (and sure above and past many employers).
• The chance to participate in employees volunteering actions to make a distinction in the area people.
• Reductions can be found by way of our advantages portal together with; cash off at supermarkets, excessive avenue retailers, IT merchandise akin to Apple, the cinema and days out at varied points of interest. 
• A wage sacrifice scheme can also be out there that can assist you make the most of tax financial savings on advantages. 
• If you’re shifting to Durham, we may also help with elimination prices and now we have a devoted staff who may also help you with the practicalities akin to home searching and colleges.  Should you want a visa, we cowl most visa prices and provide an curiosity free mortgage scheme to pay for dependant visas.

Durham College is dedicated to equality,  range and inclusion 

Our collective intention is to create an open and inclusive surroundings the place everybody can attain their full potential and we imagine our employees ought to mirror the range of the worldwide neighborhood by which we work.  As a College equality, range, and inclusion (EDI) are a key a part of the College’s Technique and a central a part of every thing we do.  We additionally reside by our values and our Employees Code of Conduct.  At Durham we actively work in direction of offering an surroundings the place our employees and college students can research, work and reside in a neighborhood which is supportive and inclusive. It’s essential to us that every one of our colleagues are aligned to each our values and dedication to EDI.

We welcome and encourage functions from members of teams who’re under-represented in our work drive together with individuals with disabilities, ladies and black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.  You probably have taken trip of your profession, and you’re feeling it related, tell us about it in your software.  If you’re a candidate with a incapacity, we’re dedicated to making sure honest remedy all through the recruitment course of. We’ll make changes to help the interview course of wherever it’s affordable to take action and, the place profitable, affordable changes will probably be made to help individuals inside their position. 

What it is advisable exhibit once you apply/Particular person Specification    

While you apply it will be significant that you simply tell us what abilities/expertise you could have from an analogous position and/or what abilities/expertise you could have which might make you proper for this position.  Additional details about the position and obligations is on the finish of this job description.  The place a standards has an asterisk* subsequent to it, it could be given extra weighting when your software is taken into account.    
  
Your software ought to cowl the next standards:
 

Important Standards

{Qualifications}/Expertise

1.    Educated to diploma stage (or equal expertise).

2.    Skilled practitioner with specialist data and experience to affect service supply, occasions and actions throughout the organisation.

3.    Expertise of offering specialist recommendation and steering to a variety of consumers and colleagues, together with extra senior colleagues.

4.    Expertise of taking part in inside or exterior networks to share and focus on good apply, develop robust and productive working relationships and positively affect the College’s repute.

5.    Be capable to work precisely below stress and to fulfill deadlines, demonstrating consideration to element. 

6.    Expertise of efficiently offering complicated analysis bid help, together with costing and pricing, inside a Larger Training surroundings.  

Abilities/Talents/Data

7.    Wonderful spoken and written communication abilities together with the power to develop efficient working relationships, each internally and externally.

8.    Sturdy digital competence throughout a variety of digital units and apps together with digital communication instruments, Microsoft 365 functions, enterprise programs.

9.    Dedicated to persevering with skilled improvement to take care of skilled recognition.

10.  In depth data and expertise of making certain compliance with regulatory and organisational coverage and tips.

11.  Skill to contribute to planning at operational and strategic ranges.

12.  Skill to unravel issues and resolve on and plan applicable options.

13.  Exhibit the power to assume creatively about service provision and promote new methods of working.

Fascinating standards

14.  Expertise of line administration or offering developmental help and training.

15.  Expertise of utilizing analysis administration software program/costing and pricing instruments e.g. Worktribe.

Tips on how to apply
  
To progress to the evaluation stage, candidates should proof every of the important standards required for the position within the individual specification above. Will probably be on the discretion of the recruiting panel as to whether or not they may also take into account any fascinating standards, however we might urge candidates to supply proof for all standards.  Please don’t overlook to examine if there may be any weighted standards (see above).

Whereas some standards will probably be thought-about on the shortlisting stage, different standards could also be thought-about later within the evaluation course of, akin to questions at interview.   
  
Submitting your software 

We choose to obtain functions on-line.   We’ll replace you about your software at varied factors all through the choice course of, by way of automated emails from our e-recruitment system. Please examine your spam/junk folder periodically to be sure you haven’t missed any of our updates.
  
What it is advisable submit   

•    A CV: and   
•    A protecting letter which particulars your expertise, strengths and potential set out within the important and fascinating standards throughout the Particular person Specification.    
 
Contact particulars   
  
For a chat concerning the position or any additional data please contact Sally Hewlett ([email protected] ).

Typical Function Necessities

Service Supply/Improvement

• Present professional analysis funding data.
• Present a dedication to equality, range and inclusion and the College’s values.
• Develop and apply an in-depth understanding of college coverage and exterior analysis funding panorama developments when finishing up your position.
• Be sure that coverage and regulatory requirements are met by the actions, processes and transactions which are carried out in companies you’re accountable for.
• Use your skilled data and expertise to make sure all stakeholder-facing employees present an accessible, pleasant {and professional} service by shaping processes for inducting and creating employees. 
• Use your managerial and management experience to determine priorities and form the service to realize the required outcomes.
• Search for methods to repeatedly enhance companies and take a lead position within the improvement and implementation of assigned insurance policies, processes and requirements.
• Provoke and handle enterprise course of opinions to enhance the service in your space.
• Guarantee knowledge (commercially delicate and/or private) is appropriately saved and managed.
• Handle high quality and regulatory audits of programs and procedures.
• Assist the welfare, wellbeing and employment of your employees by offering skilled steering.

Planning and Organisation

• Contribute to the scoping and useful resource planning throughout a variety of actions at operational and probably strategic stage.
• Oversee the evaluation of knowledge concerning the service ranges supplied by your space make suggestions for enchancment in stories to senior managers and committees.
• Allocate and monitor designated budgets, expenditure and sources.

Staff Improvement

• Handle and develop the individuals, efficiency and sources of your groups to make sure that a buyer focussed service is supplied.
• Present suggestions on staff and particular person efficiency and determine improvement wants, conducting common employees ADR and efficiency opinions.
• Assist form the abilities and experience wanted to ship knowledgeable service by recruiting, inducting and coaching staff members and structuring the staff in means that may finest meet operational and strategic priorities.
• Be sure that your staff can ship the required companies by devolving and delegating obligations to applicable staff members.
• Perform common efficiency opinions to supply suggestions on targets and expectations and determine any improvement wants.
• Deal with most HR points and help the welfare and wellbeing of your staff referring extra complicated points to specialist companies or extra senior managers.
• Devolve obligations to staff members to make sure continuity of service provision and encourage abilities improvement.

Communication/Liaison

• Use your skilled data to determine and advocate priorities for long-term enterprise plans.
• Present skilled steering and recommendation when managing complaints, referrals and specialist companies.
• Design inventive and modern communications to advertise and improve engagement referring to your service.
• Affect College coverage, requirements and governance by main operational enterprise conferences, working teams and sub-committees.
• Create robust working relationships, together with inside and exterior networks, utilizing your networks to extend your data and abilities, swap data with friends and positively affect the College’s repute.
• Liaise and have interaction with key stakeholders and inside and exterior contractors to affect opinion, supply and repute of companies.
• Characterize the service and College at promotional occasions.
• Determine alternatives to develop and improve participation in particular curiosity teams.
• Analyse stakeholder suggestions, implementing and reviewing service provision.
• Every other affordable duties.

  
Please be aware that in submitting your software Durham College will probably be processing your knowledge. We’d ask you to think about the related College Privateness Assertion Privateness Notices – Durham College  which supplies data on the collation, storing and use of knowledge.  

When appointing to this position the College should make sure that it meets any relevant immigration necessities, together with wage thresholds that are relevant to some visas.