Short summary
We’re seeking a Grants Manager to join the Grants department. In this role, you will manage a portfolio of EU and international research grants, including Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe (ERC, MSCA and consortium projects) and NIH awards.
You will provide comprehensive post-award financial and administrative support to researchers, working closely with Group Leaders and project teams from project set-up through to financial monitoring, reporting and closure. This includes supporting budgeting, financial reconciliations, invoicing and preparing projects for internal and external audits.
Working collaboratively across finance and research support teams, you will help ensure projects are managed in line with funder and institutional requirements. You will also contribute to the continued development and improvement of systems and processes that support the effective management of international research grants.
Key Responsibilities
These include but are not limited to:
Managing a portfolio of EU and international research grants, including Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe and NIH projects.
Advising Group Leaders and research teams on grant management and funder requirements.
Supporting project budgeting, financial monitoring and reconciliations.
Preparing and submitting interim and final financial claims.
Advising on eligible expenditure and responding to financial queries.
Managing financial reporting and payments to project partners where the Crick is the coordinating institution.
Monitoring project finances, including foreign exchange impacts.
Supporting internal and external audits and responding to funder queries.
About you
You will have:
Excellent knowledge and experience of research finance and administration.*
Experience of post-award grant management in a university, research institute or similar environment. *
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, able to work with finance and non-finance colleagues at all levels.
High attention to detail and a proactive approach to improving financial processes.
Awareness and proven professional experience of specialist European funding programmes including the EU R&D Framework Programmes (e.g. Horizon 2020)*
About us
The Francis Crick Institute is a biomedical discovery institute dedicated to understanding the fundamental biology underlying health and disease. Its work is helping to understand why disease develops and to translate discoveries into new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, infections, and neurodegenerative diseases.
An independent organisation, its founding partners are the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, Wellcome, UCL, Imperial College London and King’s College London.
The Crick was formed in 2015, and in 2016 it moved into a new state-of-the-art building in central London which brings together 1500 scientists and support staff working collaboratively across disciplines, making it the biggest biomedical research facility under in one building in Europe.
The Francis Crick Institute will be world-class with a strong national role. Its distinctive vision for excellence includes commitments to collaboration; developing emerging talent and exporting it the rest of the UK; public engagement; and helping turn discoveries into treatments as quickly as possible to improve lives and strengthen the economy.
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