Pre-Award Development Officer

Overview

In this fixed-term role, you will support researchers across the university in securing external funding. You will join the Pre-Award team within RIS to review and develop grant applications, ensuring they meet university and funder requirements. Your work focuses on improving quality, navigating the funding landscape, and enabling successful grant outcomes. You will collaborate with research staff and rely on strong organisation and communication to drive impact. This is a hybrid, people-centric position at a university committed to research excellence and diversity.

Pay / Benefits

• generous annual leave
• employer contributory pension schemes
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• discounted postgraduate tuition and language courses

Responsibilities

• Provide expert advice to researchers on external funding applications
• Review and develop grant proposals to meet university and funder rules
• scrutinise complex documents and extract relevant information with attention to detail
• maintain good numeracy and IT skills to support funding submissions
• demonstrate self-motivation, time-management and ability to work under pressure

Key requirements

• excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills
• good understanding of the research funding landscape in higher education
• familiarity with relevant sources of funding
• ability to scrutinise sophisticated documents and extract information
• good numeracy and IT skills
• self-confidence and ability to stand your ground under pressure
• good self-motivation and time-management
• Honours degree or equivalent experience

• interpersonal skills
• clear communication
• attention to detail
• calm under pressure
• numeracy
• IT skills

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