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Join our Research and Innovation Office
We are investing heavily in the growth and development of our Research and Innovation Office and are recruiting to a large number of roles to strengthen our high-performing service.
We have an exciting opportunity for an Impact Funding Advisor to join the Research and Innovation Office.
Full Time, Fixed Term until March 2025
As Impact Funding Advisor, you will provide support to academic researchers seeking to undertake and deliver knowledge exchange activities through-out the whole project life cycle (e.g., bid development and costing, submission, contract negotiation, post award financial monitoring and final reporting). You will provide advice and assistance primarily in relation to the allocation on the University’s block funding grants. This will include the promotion of the funding opportunity, providing secretariat support to the review panel, ensuring that projects are costed and contracted appropriately, projects are compliant with funder eligibility, projects are monitored against spend and milestone completion and evidence of completion to feed into final reporting to the external funding bodies. You will work closely with the RIO Contracts Team to ensure that the appropriate contractual agreements are put in place in a timely and effective manner and reflecting the needs of the University and those of the funder and /or other parties.
If you have any questions about this role, please contact RIO HR on rio.hr@mailbox.lboro.ac.uk
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Closing date: Monday 12th June 2023 midnight
Interview Date: Monday 26th June 2023
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