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Funding Policy Manager

Location: Stratford, London (high flex - we would expect you to be in the office 1-2 days per week). Other flexible-working requests can also be considered if they meet business needs.

Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 pa depending on experience + benefits

Contract Type / Hours: Permanent / Full time 35 hours per week (Part time hours considered)

Application Deadline: Sunday 25th September at 23.55. This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications are received or once a suitable candidate is found, so please do not delay submitting your application to avoid any disappointment.

Are you a sharp-minded individual with knowledge or experience of research funding or funding policy implementation that can help us beat cancer?

Cancer Research UK is the world's leading cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research. CRUK's goal is to raise survival to 3 in 4 by 2034. Our Research Operations and Communications department is pivotal to ensuring we continue to fund and support a wealth of innovative, world-class scientists and cancer research that will make this a reality. CRUK has an important role in promoting a positive research environment which fosters world-class science and innovation. You can help shape and influence this by contributing to discussions, partnering with funders, sector bodies and research organisations and convening our research community on key issues to bring about change and foster positive research culture.

What will I be doing?

Some of the key duties include:

• Help drive the development of new or amended policy positions in emerging areas e.g equality, diversity and inclusion in research; research assessment; sustainability
• Provide research policy and governance expertise and advice throughout the funding process by:-- Engaging with other funding bodies and regulatory bodies to ensure that CRUK applies, and contributes to the development of, best practice research policies; and monitoring grantees' post-award compliance with grant conditions, including working with the Research Evaluation team and research institutions to monitor open access compliance.
• Working with other team members to develop, implement and monitor CRUK's funding policies and governance structures;
• Providing expert advice in relation to research policy and grant conditions queries, developing and maintaining strong relationships across teams;
• Keeping abreast of developments in the sector and communicate new developments as appropriate
• Responding to research policy and governance queries from a range of external stakeholders, including researchers, applicants, and university administration staff, to support the application submission procedure;
• Providing relevant insights to the Senior Policy & Governance Manager and Senior Research Grants Managers to inform operational processes;
• Driving the development of policy and governance improvements across overall funding process, ensuring consistency across the portfolio and suggesting solutions for any identified risks.

What skills are we looking for?

We're looking for a flexible and organised individual with experience working for a funding body or a recipient of grant funding with a focus on scientific research.

You will bring to the role:

• Influencing and negotiation skills to bring about change within an organisation
• Operational and organisational skills, ideally within a grant funding environment, with experience of developing and delivering project plans.
• Experience of drafting and implementing processes and policies
• Understands and supports the principles of CRUK's research objectives.

Application process: In our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, we operate an anonymised shortlisting process. Please therefore ensure that you have completed the work history section of the application form and answered all application questions. CVs are required for all applications; however they will not be reviewed until interview stage

Post source:jobs.theguardian.com

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Name:CANCER RESEARCH UK

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