Queen Mary has ambitious plans to grow the reach and impact of our research, making a difference locally, nationally and internationally. The Impact Acceleration Accounts Officer (IAA Officer) plays an important role in this through providing high-quality and responsive administration of Queen Mary Impact Fund, ensuring the university’s IAA funding is managed effectively and used to respond to impact opportunities in novel and creative ways, generating impact aligned to Queen Mary’s Strategy 2030. The role sits within the growing Research Impact team, part of the Office of the Principal.
The purpose of this role is to support the delivery of the Queen Mary Impact Fund, which currently includes IAA funding from EPSRC, BBSRC and MRC. The post-holder will support the Impact Acceleration Account Officer who is responsible for the overall fund management and you will be responsible for the administration. This includes managing calls for funding, tracking successful projects, monitoring spend and compiling internal and external reports.
This may also include supporting applications for new IAAs. The role will work across Queen Mary, building on the work of several previous IAA awards. This will involve working closely with professional services colleagues in related teams (e.g. business development, technology transfer), external partners and academic researchers to assist in identifying and facilitating the economic and societal impact of Queen Mary’s UKRI research.
The post-holder will support the Research Impact team’s other activities, for example producing materials to communicate Queen Mary’s impact, delivering impact training and supporting initiatives to increase Queen Mary’s impact through policy, public and community and business engagement.
Main duties and responsibilities:
Manage and administer internal funding rounds for IAA monies. This will include: ensuring calls are well publicised, capturing funded activities/projects, supporting the assessment process and liaising with successful project leads to ensure timely spend and reporting.
Working with Impact Engagement Officers, deliver a flexible, agile and responsive service to academics and external partners in facilitating queries about the IAA and the work it supports, with referral and/or escalation where appropriate.
Attend and act as secretary for IAA steering groups. Prepare board reports, agendas, papers and minutes for the steering groups.
Track and monitor the IAA budget, and projects it supports, identifying potential underspends and issues as appropriate, and providing advice on mitigations.
Collect data for draft interim and final reports for the IAA to be submitted to the relevant funder, including requesting regular reporting from those staff members funded through the IAAs.
Provide administrative support to Queen Mary’s institutional initiatives to increase impact from its industrial and community engagement such as sandpit events and workshops.
Support the Research Impact team in its other activities, for example supporting the delivery of training sessions.
Support with other related tasks as required. The above list of responsibilities is not exhaustive, and the jobholder may be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the level of the role, as reasonably requested by their line manager.
QualificationsDegree or equivalent.
SkillsDemonstrable experience of undertaking project type work, planning and progressing to completion, including monitoring and reporting.
Experience supporting academics and non academic partners.
An understanding of research and engagement projects.
Demonstrable ability to use initiative and judgement and refer up as needed.
Ability to prioritise workload effectively and to work independently to progress long and short term activities to ensure delivery.
Accuracy and attention to detail
Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues and stakeholders at all levels, bringing different groups of people together with positive results.
Good administrative IT skills including spread sheets, email, word processing, maintaining web pages and databases used as management tools.
The ability to meet UK ‘right to work’ requirements.
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