Please see: https://www.whitonmaynard.com/assistant-research-officer.html

Full time temporary contract until 30th September (possible extension), remote working

Organisation:

Highly regarded independent charity focused on health and health care in the UK

Role:

The Assistant Research Officer is a key member of the organisation’s Research Team, ensuring research management processes are carried out to a high standard, supporting research grant holders manage their projects and supporting the dissemination of research findings.

In this role you will:

• Support effective contract management, award administration and project management of a portfolio of research grants and commissioned research projects
• Support the tendering, contracting and commissioning process
• Support events management for external stakeholder events
• Ensure high quality processes, information and communication to support the work of the Research Team.

Candidate:

You will be asked to demonstrate the following essential skills and experience:

• Highly effective organisational skills including the ability to work on a number of tasks and issues concurrently and to work effectively under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Proactive management of workload including forward planning, prioritisation across different areas of work, anticipating the administrative support required for agreed team activities and a problem-solving approach
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral and the ability to communicate with confidence with internal and external stakeholders at all levels
• Experience of organising and managing meetings and events
• High level proficiency across standard software programmes for documentation, presentations, spreadsheets, data bases, electronic diary systems
• Experience of delivering tendering or contracting processes
• Experience of working in a grant-making organisation (desirable).

As specialist recruiters we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community.