Post-Award Senior Research Manager

Description
£45,272 - £49,430 - the band minimum is the normal starting pay for those new to a role. In exceptional circumstances, when relevant skills and experience can be identified, a higher starting salary may be considered.

Interview date - Anticipated w/c 27/1/25

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is looking for an exceptional Post-Award grants management professional to join our Research, Development and Support (ReDS) Team. BAS delivers and enables world-leading interdisciplinary research in the Polar Regions. We employ experts from many different professions to carry out our Science as well as keep the lights on, feed the research and support teams and keep everyone safe!

Working at BAS is rewarding. Our skilled science, operational and support staff based in Cambridge, Antarctica and the Arctic, work together to deliver research that uses the Polar Regions to advance our understanding of Earth as a sustainable planet. Through our extensive logistic capability and know how BAS facilitates access for the British and international science community to the UK polar research operation. Numerous national and international collaborations, combined with an excellent infrastructure help sustain a world leading position for the UK in Antarctic affairs. British Antarctic Survey is a component of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), which is part of UK Research and Innovation www.ukri.org

As a valued member of our team, you'll be eligible for the following benefits:

• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays and 2.5 privilege days
• Excellent civil service pension (with 26% or more employer contribution, depending on your band)
• 24 hours/365 days access to employee assistance programme (EAP - including support with physical, mental, social, health and financial issues)
• Flexible and family friendly working opportunities
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to discounted shopping on a range of retail, leisure and lifestyle categories and much more.

You'll be joining our Research, Development and Support (ReDS) team, working in the Post-Award section.

You'll help us to deliver comprehensive post-award services and management, overseeing the financial and administrative management of research grants after they have been awarded. This includes oversight of financial management, ensuring compliance with funding agency regulations, as well as delivering and providing guidance around effective project management.

Within the role, there will be an opportunity to develop your expertise within the research funding landscape. In the Post-Award space, this can include areas such as project and programme management, financial management, strategic development, or process and systems development and implementation, to name just a few. You will be engaging with a broad range of researchers and professional staff both within BAS and with our international collaborators, building on established networks and collaborations and we will support you in your professional growth by providing training opportunities to further enhance your expertise in grant management.

Current projects the team are working on include a vast array of interdisciplinary research projects with external partners worldwide. Some projects currently within our portfolio include:-

• ArcticPASSION: an innovative pan-Arctic Observation and Monitoring action that rises to the challenges of climate change and consists of 43 partners from 17 countries including Indigenous communities across the Arctic in addition to an extensive network of collaborators across the globe.
• OCEAN:ICE: an innovative and ambitious combination of observations and numerical models, including coupled ice sheet-climate model development, will be used to improve predictions of how changes in the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets impact global climate.
• ITGC: A NERC/NSF partnership, called te International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration and covers research across Thwaites Glacier and its adjacent ocean region; the glacier flows into Pine Island Bay, part of Amundsen Sea. ITGC is the largest joint UK-US project undertaken on the southern continent in 70 years.
• BIOPOLE: an interdisciplinary NERC programme examining biogeochemical processes and ecosystem function in polar ecosystems and includes five National Capability Providers (BAS, NOC, UKCEH, BGS and CPOM)
• PRESCIENT: a joint programme between BAS (British Antarctic Survey) and CPOM (the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling) which supports strategically-important, long-term measurements and specific capabilities that BAS and CPOM deliver for the wider science community

You'll be joining a world-leading interdisciplinary research organisation, that is committed to recruiting talented people like you, progressing your career and giving you the support, you need to thrive at BAS.

Some of your main responsibilities will include:

• Acting as the senior point of contact and administrative lead for post-award grant management within BAS.
• Ensuring comprehensive, efficient, and supportive administration services to PIs of externally funded grants throughout the full lifecycle of active grants.
• Managing the pool of Programme Managers and Programme Support Officers within ReDS to deliver projects where ReDS has direct project-management/delivery responsibilities

• Working closely with the Pre-Award Team to ensure project budgets accurately reflect the resources needed for successful project delivery and long-term financial stability within BAS, when seeking (and ultimately securing) external funding.
• Working closely with the Head of ReDS and other key stakeholders to drive systems and process improvements for grant management, ensuring BAS's systems and processes are set up to effectively and efficiently support grant management and information capture.

For the role of Post-Award Senior Research Manager, we are looking for somebody who has:

• A proven track record in effective post-award grant management at Departmental or Central Institutional Administration level
• Experience with research grant funding mechanisms and policies for our main funders (e.g. UKRI, NERC, EU, Defra etc).
• A high degree of comfort handling numerical, and financial information - ideally someone who is used to dealing with budget management and financial repotting, as well as analysing data producing reports to help inform decision making.
• A proven track record of being a team player with an ability to work collaboratively with senior managers and staff at various levels of seniority - ability to liaise with colleagues across the organisation, work collaboratively, ensuring communication of progress and issues to colleagues.

Please download job description for more details.

If we've just described you, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now at bas.ac.uk/vacancies.

What experiences can we offer you?

At BAS we believe everyone plays a vital role, is unique and valued, therefore, we embrace diversity as well as equality of opportunity and are committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming working environment where everyone's unique perspectives are valued.

Different perspectives and collaborative working help us achieve our best work and come together to form a high performing team which makes positive changes in the business. That's the power of every individual. Our cultural values are built on mutual respect, inclusion, commitment and excellence.

If you are looking for an opportunity to work with world class and amazing people in one of the most unique places in the world, then British Antarctic Survey could be for you.

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