Senior Grants and Contracts Manager

The College

At Durham College we’re pleased with our individuals.  A globally excellent centre of academic excellence, a collegiate group 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 we’ve an enormous number of roles and profession alternatives, which collectively make us a big and profitable group, which is a key hub of exercise inside our area and nationally.  We’d be thrilled in case you would take into account becoming a member of our thriving College. Additional details about the College might be discovered right here

The Position and Division

Analysis and Innovation Providers (RIS) gives steerage, professional recommendation and hands-on help for all features of analysis and research-related work, together with securing funding, working with companions, enterprise information trade, demonstrating influence, commercialising outputs, making certain good analysis apply and supporting skilled growth. 

It is a key administration place throughout the Analysis Operations Staff which is the most important crew throughout the RIS Directorate. The Operations Staff contains three sub groups;: pre award help, contracting help and put up award help, and gives specialist steerage to lecturers {and professional} help colleagues throughout the lifecycle of a analysis venture.

The put up holder will lead a crew of six Analysis Grants and Contracts Managers and you’ll play an important function within the growth and coaching of the workers you handle, performing 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 duty for working alongside educational workers, venture managing the preparation and submission of huge advanced bids by contributing to the proposal growth, 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’ll 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 function.

Additional details about the function 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 incredible advantages you’ll obtain in case you be a part of the College: additionally, you will obtain entry to the next incredible advantages: 

• 30 Days annual depart 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 12 months.
• We provide a beneficiant pension scheme, As a brand new member of workers you’ll be mechanically enrolled into this College Superannuation Scheme (USS).
• Irrespective of the way you journey to work, we’ve you lined.  We now have 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 growing our colleagues professionally and personally.  There’s a complete vary of growth programs, apprenticeships and entry to {qualifications} and routes to develop your profession within the College.  All workers have devoted annual time to focus on their private growth alternatives. 
• A number of help for well being and wellbeing together with discounted membership for our cutting-edge sport and fitness center services and entry to a 24-7 Worker Help Programme.
• On web site 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 depart, that are among the many most beneficiant within the increased schooling sector (and sure above and past many employers).
• The chance to participate in workers volunteering actions to make a distinction in the local people.
• Reductions can be found through our advantages portal together with; cash off at supermarkets, excessive road retailers, IT merchandise equivalent to Apple, the cinema and days out at varied sights. 
• A wage sacrifice scheme can be obtainable that can assist you reap the benefits of tax financial savings on advantages. 
• If you’re shifting to Durham, we may also help with removing prices and we’ve a devoted crew who may also help you with the practicalities equivalent to home searching and faculties.  In the event 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,  variety 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 workers ought to mirror the range of the worldwide group during which we work.  As a College equality, variety, and inclusion (EDI) are a key a part of the College’s Technique and a central a part of every little 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 workers and college students can research, work and reside in a group 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 purposes 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.  In case you have taken day out of your profession, and you are feeling it related, tell us about it in your software.  If you’re a candidate with a incapacity, we’re dedicated to making sure truthful remedy all through the recruitment course of. We’ll make changes to help the interview course of wherever it’s cheap to take action and, the place profitable, cheap changes can be made to help individuals inside their function. 

What you might want to show while you apply/Individual Specification    

Whenever you apply it is vital that you just tell us what abilities/expertise you could have from an identical function and/or what abilities/expertise you could have which might make you proper for this function.  Additional details about the function and obligations is on the finish of this job description.  The place a standards has an asterisk* subsequent to it, it might 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 information and experience to affect service supply, occasions and actions throughout the organisation.

3.    Expertise of offering specialist recommendation and steerage to a spread of shoppers and colleagues, together with extra senior colleagues.

4.    Expertise of taking part in inner or exterior networks to share and talk about good apply, develop robust and productive working relationships and positively affect the College’s status.

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

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

Expertise/Talents/Data

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

8.    Sturdy digital competence throughout a spread of digital units and apps together with digital communication instruments, Microsoft 365 purposes, enterprise techniques.

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

10.  In depth information and expertise of making certain compliance with regulatory and organisational coverage and pointers.

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

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

13.  Reveal the flexibility to suppose 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.

apply
  
To progress to the evaluation stage, candidates should proof every of the important standards required for the function 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’d urge candidates to offer proof for all standards.  Please don’t overlook to verify if there may be any weighted standards (see above).

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

We favor to obtain purposes on-line.   We’ll replace you about your software at varied factors all through the choice course of, through automated emails from our e-recruitment system. Please verify your spam/junk folder periodically to be sure to haven’t missed any of our updates.
  
What you might want to submit   

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

Typical Position Necessities

Service Supply/Improvement

• Present professional analysis funding information.
• Present a dedication to equality, variety 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 function.
• Be certain that coverage and regulatory requirements are met by the actions, processes and transactions which might be carried out in companies you might be chargeable for.
• Use your skilled information and expertise to make sure all stakeholder-facing workers present an accessible, pleasant {and professional} service by shaping processes for inducting and growing workers. 
• Use your managerial and management experience to determine priorities and form the service to attain the required outcomes.
• Search for methods to repeatedly enhance companies and take a lead function within the growth and implementation of assigned insurance policies, processes and requirements.
• Provoke and handle enterprise course of evaluations to enhance the service in your space.
• Guarantee information (commercially delicate and/or private) is appropriately saved and managed.
• Handle high quality and regulatory audits of techniques and procedures.
• Help the welfare, wellbeing and employment of your workers by offering skilled steerage.

Planning and Organisation

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

Staff Improvement

• Handle and develop the individuals, efficiency and assets of your groups to make sure that a buyer focussed service is supplied.
• Present suggestions on crew and particular person efficiency and determine growth wants, conducting common workers ADR and efficiency evaluations.
• Assist form the talents and experience wanted to ship an expert service by recruiting, inducting and coaching crew members and structuring the crew in manner that can finest meet operational and strategic priorities.
• Be certain that your crew can ship the required companies by devolving and delegating obligations to applicable crew members.
• Perform common efficiency evaluations to offer suggestions on aims and expectations and determine any growth wants.
• Deal with most HR points and help the welfare and wellbeing of your crew referring extra advanced points to specialist companies or extra senior managers.
• Devolve obligations to crew members to make sure continuity of service provision and encourage abilities growth.

Communication/Liaison

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

  
Please observe that in submitting your software Durham College can be processing your information. We’d ask you to contemplate the related College Privateness Assertion Privateness Notices – Durham College  which gives info on the collation, storing and use of information.  

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