UK Research and Innovation

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

Manager

• 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.