UK Research and Innovation

Manager

• Working with portfolio managers and external consultancies to ensure economic analysis within EPSRC’s evaluations is robust, independently accepted and well defined, thus enabling our evaluations to make the strongest case possible for Government funding.
• Working with colleagues to directly run economic analysis on available data to produce new insights for the benefit of the whole of UKRI where possible.
• Working closely with the Theme Lead and the wider Evidence and Evaluation team to ensure EPSRC’s monitoring and evaluation approach remains fit for purpose, working to adapt to and influence thinking in high-level monitoring and evaluation policies and developing innovative solutions.
• Working autonomously but in close collaboration with UKRI economists to develop and deliver a high-quality work programme across priority areas and providing a quality assurance function of the economic impact of investments in science and research.
• Translating evidence effectively, explaining technical information clearly, and describing the implications and uncertainties of analysis.
• Maintaining awareness of current best practice and latest thinking on economic evaluation approaches and methodologies relevant to assessing benefits and impacts of research.

Senior Economic Evaluation Manager

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Provide dedicated finance expertise and business partnering to UKRI-MRC
• Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders
• Support effective financial management of programmes
• Identify opportunities for improvement within Finance
• Ensure compliance with financial controls and reporting requirements
• Lead on asset verification, capitalisation, and reporting

Finance Business Partner

• Lead and manage the provision of effective, efficient and professional SHE services to STFC staff, contractors, tenants, visitors, ensuring compliance.
• Provide timely professional SHE advice and guidance to tenants and support them in discharging their responsibility for the implementation of the STFC SHE Management System.
• Development and review STFC’s tenant Health and Safety management systems and processes, based upon experience of internal application, audit findings, external best practice, and legislative changes identified through horizon scanning.
• Ensure that all SHE incidents, including injuries, near misses, fires, environmental and vehicle incidents are reported, investigated appropriately and actions established to minimise the likelihood of their repetition. Sharing STFC wide learning appropriately.
• Assist with the preparation and delivery of STFC specific on-line and face to face SHE training programmes for tenants.
• Attend and report to site, department and specialist Safety Committee meetings on behalf of BID.

Health and Safety Manager

Procurement

• Procurement Officer, working with and reporting to Procurement Managers, support research staff on all their complex procurement projects.
• Draft and Publish Tender Documents compliant with UK Public Sector Procurement Regulations.
• Maintaining Contract folders in a regulated environment with clear audit trail.
• Undertake multiple procurement sourcing/contracting actions as required using the most appropriate route to market in line with UKRI Procurement Policy.
• Provide advice when requirement must be directed to the shared service centre.
• Support Procurement Managers in Tender Evaluation Moderation Meetings.
• Provide local expertise and support to end-users to undertake a range of procurement tasks (varying in both value and complexity) including sourcing and contracting.

Procurement Officer

Operations

• providing general operational and organisational support to the AHRC Grants Operations team including managing shared mailboxes, supporting the implementation of grants policy and process updates, supporting the purchase order process, creating online surveys, processing disabled student allowance claims and supporting the research outcomes reporting process
• being a first point of call for external enquiries; engaging directly with prospective applicants, grant holders and other external stakeholders in relation to AHRC grants policy, funding provision and processes, and providing answers and guidance in a timely manner
• engaging with and supporting continuous improvement project work and initiatives, seeking to refine processes, policy, and ways of working within both your team and the wider organisation
• occasionally you may also support meetings, webinars, and events both internally and externally and both in-person and virtually; tasks include securing venues (or virtual meeting space), arranging logistics, making travel and accommodation arrangements, and processing expenses claims
• supporting training and guidance on the systems and processes of AHRC

Operations Officer

• Support the development, simplification and implementation of UKRI funding policy, using evidence and user insight to shape recommendations.
• Produce high‑quality policy papers, briefings and proposals for senior decision‑making forums, ensuring policies are coherent, deliverable and user‑centred.
• Design and deliver engagement activities (e.g. workshops, forums, surveys, user testing) to inform policy development and Funding Service improvements, acting as a trusted advisor on user‑centred engagement approaches.
• Analyse engagement feedback and generate clear insights, including “You Said, We Did” reporting, to influence decisions and drive continuous improvement.
• Produce clear, accessible communications on policy changes, operational improvements and service performance.
• Develop and maintain guidance, FAQs and digital content for applicants, reviewers and research organisations, ensuring accessibility and consistency.
• Build and maintain strong relationships across the nine Councils and with key external stakeholders, representing the Funding Policy and Engagement team at meetings and networks.
• Regular UK travel should be expected as part of this role, particularly to deliver and support workshops, events, and stakeholder engagement activities across the research and innovation community.
• Track engagement activity and contribute insights to dashboards, performance reports and impact reviews.
• Support and deputise for Policy Leads and the Associate Director, confidently facilitating meetings and discussions, challenging assumptions constructively, managing expectations, and ensuring actions are agreed and progressed.

Senior Policy Engagement Manager

Administration

• Enrol new joiners into the pension scheme.
• Process pension forms and requests from members/pensioners/employers.
• Updating and maintaining information in the pension database, for example; address changes, change of name, change of hours, opt outs, death benefit and partner nominations.
• Calculate pension estimates and awards for retirees, early leavers, redundancy, etc. and where required deal with payroll/employer contacts regarding queries.
• Requesting/returning files to the off-site storage facility.
• Deal with enquiries (telephone, email and written) from a wide range of people including members, pensioners, solicitors and relatives.
• Liaise with employers as well as third party companies for payroll and finance payments.
• Communicate standard pension information, as required, to members.
• Ensure service level agreements are achieved in the processing of queries and administrative aspects and that data is processed in line with the relevant regulations, e.g. GDPR.

Pensions Administrator

• Investigate and analyse impact and outcomes information to generate new evidence of how UKRI environmental science makes a difference.
• Present the evidence in clear, succinct and accessible formats tailored to the needs of key audiences including UKRI leadership, DSIT, and government and business partners.
• Gather evidence for the team’s fortnightly communication of recent outcomes from UKRI environmental science by tracking news from research organisations that we fund and from companies that are building on NERC-funded research.
• Support communication of outcomes evidence produced by the team, for example via the website and internal newsletters.
• Respond to requests for impact evidence in a timely manner, exercising judgement to provide the most relevant evidence.
• Manage the team’s shared mailbox, and maintain the team’s evidence database and internal SharePoint site.
• Provide support to team members, and the directorate more widely, as required.

Impact and Outcomes Manager

Threat Intelligence Specialist

• Complete targeted penetration tests and red team exercises to identify exploitable vulnerabilities.
• Develop and maintain offensive tooling to simulate adversary tactics and techniques.
• Monitor and analyse threat intelligence feeds to identify emerging threats and relevant TTPs.
• Produce technical threat reports and briefings to inform security posture and decision-making.
• Conduct proactive threat hunting based on intelligence-led hypotheses and anomaly detection.
• Support risk assessments with insights from offensive operations and threat landscape analysis.

Offensive Security and Threat Intelligence Specialist

Security Engineer

• Own and lead UKRI’s Information Security Governance, Risk and Assurance framework.
• Own, operate and continuously improve the Information Security Management System (ISMS).
• Provide end‑to‑end security assurance for cloud and enterprise services (AWS and Azure).
• Define and maintain UKRI’s security policy and control framework.
• Enable and support risk ownership across UKRI’s federated technology and business teams.
• Develop and maintain meaningful security metrics, dashboards and management information.
• Define, deliver and track a multi‑year security governance, risk and assurance roadmap.
• Lead security assessment, testing and remediation activity.
• Provide ongoing oversight of supplier and third‑party security risk.
• Establish and maintain enterprise visibility of assets, services and data risk context.
• Provide governance leadership across incident management, people, suppliers and assurance partnerships.
• Ensure governance‑level oversight of significant security incidents.

Information Security Governance and Risk Manager

Program Manager

• The successful design, management and delivery of capabilities that make up the relevant programmes.
• Coordination and delivery of the relevant programme’s various projects, its dependencies (internal and external), key turning points and critical path, risks, governance, financial management, benefits planning, implementation of delivery and handover to operations for the benefits to be realised across the programmes.
• Provide coaching, help, advice, guidance to partners and facilitate workshops to help achieve successful delivery outcomes in line with UKRI priorities.
• Leadership vision & objectives – Cascade vision and translate into delivery objectives for the team. Lead the programme/project to deliver the business case benefits and outcomes.
• Delivery – Create and lead the programme/project to deliver the agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality constraints.
• Programme / Project Management – Day to day management and leadership of the programme/project and the project team. Set project controls. Design the project structure appropriate to stage. Select and apply appropriate delivery methodologies.
• Coordinate development of the Business Case.
• Budget – Track delivery within budget.
• Resources – Schedule / manage resources to deliver the project.
• Risks & Issues – Oversee risk and issue management. Ensure mitigations are in place and resolved through negotiated agreement.
• Benefits Realisation – Ensure benefits are identified, understood, measured, tracked and owned. Ensure appropriate Benefits Realisation Strategy is in place and monitor longer term delivery of benefits against the Business Case.
• Identify key partners and develop strong relationships.

Programme Manager

Analyst

• Lead and deliver analysis on the UK’s social science landscape, producing outputs tailored to a diverse array of audiences and decision-making needs, ranging from descriptive analytics to more interpretive and strategic insights. Outputs may include:
• - Landscape summaries and dashboards
• - Briefings on emerging trends or developments
• - Analytical reports and visualisations
• - Contributions to strategic foresight and horizon scanning
• - Presentations to internal and external stakeholders
• Support the Situational Awareness Lead in shaping and developing the SAF’s analytical work and priorities.
• Deliver joint projects with the UK Metascience Unit that enhance the impact of ESRC’s and UKRI’s research and innovation investment activity.
• Independently identify and initiate new activities, applying innovative approaches to enhance organisational understanding of the social science landscape.
• Represent ESRC externally, including participation in UKRI groups and stakeholder engagements.
• Promote analytical expertise within ESRC, building organisational capability in intelligence gathering and data-informed decision-making.

Situational Awareness Analyst

• Reward Team administration including setting up required meetings with diverse range of stakeholders, note taking, collation and issue of documentation as required.
• Management of purchase orders, invoicing and receipting of Reward related procurement.
• Support the management of the Reward team mailbox in response to queries.
• Ongoing file management for the Reward team of regular reports, minutes and other documentation as required.
• Support the Benefits Manager with employee benefits communication and uploads to benefit providers as required.
• Initially assist with the management of the job evaluation inbox and associated job evaluation processes, moving to sole responsibility with time.
• Support the delivery of Reward team projects and individual team members as required.
• Build effective working relationships with colleagues in the wider HR team.
• Continual improvement of knowledge of Reward, Benefits and job evaluation through execution of duties.

Team Administrator

Executive Assistant

• Providing a high-quality end-to-end support service to the Chief of External Affairs and Communications.
• Managing diaries and travel, using initiative to make considered judgements when juggling demands on the schedule.
• Collating timely, focused and incisive background research, analysis and briefing.
• Working with the organisation to manage information flow to and from the Chief of External Affairs and Communications, using knowledge and judgement to respond or to divert relevant information/queries to others where appropriate.
• Arranging and ensuring the smooth running of meetings.
• Drafting and circulating meeting papers and agendas, synthesising clear minutes and actions from complex discussions.
• Effective information management, ensuring compliance with UKRI’s records management requirements.
• Providing ad-hoc support for other members of the External Affairs and Communications senior leadership team as required.
• Managing HR and Finance administration for the Chief of External Affairs and Communications using our in-house systems. (Oracle)

Executive Assistant, Diary Manager

• Lead the current DTC operations and support the development of new support programmes at Daresbury.
• Agree and deliver all targets for the DTC programmes at Daresbury (e.g., # start-ups joining, % graduation rates, # case studies, impact created, etc.).
• Ensure a high-quality deal-flow of applications DTC programmes by identifying potential applicants and supporting them to develop and submit competitive applications to the programme.
• Ensure that start-ups supported by the DTC Daresbury programmes complete their engagements with the DTC and fully exploit the technical and business support on offer.
• Own the operational relationships and day-to-day information sharing with colleagues at our co-funding partners, including UKRI-BBSRC and Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (this includes periodic reporting on programme progress).
• Cultivate relationships with regional organisations in the North West providing business support, funding and investment to start-ups.
• Collaborate with STFC and co-funder Marketing and Comms teams to promote the impact of the DTC (quantitative and anecdotal).
• Work closely with STFC’s cluster development teams to maximise the impact of our support for technology businesses.
• Produce timely, complete and appropriate business, financial and operational reports as required.
• Support the DTC Lead to develop and refresh the overall strategy for Biotech and Health programmes.