Internal Applicants Only - Research Manager

Key Duties

• To support the development, oversight and delivery of research and innovation support to LAWPL, ensuring high quality service is provided by colleagues within AHSS College and Research Delivery Team including through the line management responsibility required by the role.
• To provide excellent support (including oversight of other colleagues in your team in the provision of excellent support) within the following key areas of research and innovation support:
• Developing applications and grant proposals
• Costing and pricing and submission of proposals
• Supporting ethical review and practice of research activity
• Publication and management of research outputs
• Applying research findings outside of academia
• Supporting work for the Research Excellence Framework (REF) including output peer review and gathering of data for environment statements.
• To support priorities identified by the school(s) you support which align to research and innovation by negotiation with school leadership and your line manager, e.g. ensuring high quality support of research committees and development and delivery of local schemes.
• To contribute as an active citizen of the school and College community, including activities not directly related to research and innovation where these do not interfere with the provision of research and innovation support, i.e. by supporting open days and/or training and meetings in the school, by negotiation with school leadership and your line manager.
• To line manage staff to provide efficient and excellent research and innovation professional service support to the school(s) in your remit, managing workloads of staff to deliver a high-quality service with consistent processes and ways of working to ensure resilience of the service, including managing performance, induction and the development of the section.
• To support the Head of Service Delivery to deliver strategic goals through high quality service delivery, adapting workplans as required to enable change and delivery as necessary.
• To deputise for the Head of Service Delivery where relevant.
• To work collaboratively with other teams in the Research Service, especially CARBS, and contribute through Research Delivery Groups to ensure high quality service is available to your school(s) from across the range of support services in research and innovation and with other professional services - IT, Finance, etc - and other School-based professional services - to ensure a whole-University approach to facilitating research is enabled.
• To support the development of a positive research culture for research and innovation professional services, modelling positive behaviours through all interactions with colleagues and through a highly professional, organised and proactive approach to work.
• To be an active contributor to Research Service-wide process improvement, ensuring you provide academic colleagues with up to date and accurate information about processes.
• To work in a collaborative and collegiate manner with colleagues in your College Research and Innovation Team, working to promote consistent ways of working across all schools and to provide resilience across the service by supporting service delivery in areas outside your school(s) (e.g. to cover colleagues' absence).
• To communicate effectively with the academics and researchers within your school(s), ensuring academics have access to policies and procedures governing research and innovation processes, and helping them to navigate the activity they need to undertake.
• To take responsibility for resolving issues independently within all aspects of the remit of the role.
• To plan and deliver specific projects in the field of professional support for research, co-ordinating and supervising project teams created as needed.

Person Specification

Job Description continued:

• To use standard reports and query functions in key systems to support the school(s), analysing results and advising the school leadership as appropriate.
• To provide academics and researchers with advice and guidance on the use of institutional research systems and processes, ensuring your knowledge of relevant systems and processes is up-to-date.

General Duties

• Abide by all University policies and undergo appropriate personal and professional development.
• Perform other duties which are not included above, but which will be consistent with the role.
• Uphold the Professional Services Values & Behaviours or local equivalent.
• To ensure that an understanding of the importance of confidentiality is applied when undertaking all duties.
• To ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements in respect of equality and diversity, data protection, copyright and licensing, security, financial and other University policies, procedures and codes as appropriate.
• To take reasonable care for the health and safety of yourself and of other persons who may be affected by your acts or omissions at work in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, EC directives and the University’s Safety, Health and Environment Policies and procedures and to cooperate with the University on any legal duties placed on it as the employer.

Important note

It is the University’s policy to use the person specification as a key tool for short-listing. Candidates should evidence that they meet ALL of the essential criteria as well as, where relevant, the desirable. As part of the application process you will be asked to provide this evidence via a supporting statement. Please ensure that the evidence you are providing corresponds with the numbered criteria outlined below. Your application will be considered based on the information you provide under each element.

When attaching the supporting statement to your application profile

please ensure that you name it with the vacancy reference number, e.g. Supporting Statement for XXXXBR.

Essential Criteria

• Degree/NVQ 4 or equivalent Professional membership/experience
• Substantial experience of working within a research and innovation support role, in particular the development and support of direct support for academics and PGRs
• Able to demonstrate professional knowledge within research and innovation support to give advice and guidance to internal and external customers
• Proven experience in developing new processes and procedures
• Ability to communicate conceptually detailed and complex information effectively and professionally with a wide range of people
• Experience of managing the work of a team, supporting individuals, demonstrating compassionate leadership and dealing with performance and welfare issues
• Evidence of ability to explore customers’ needs and adapt the service accordingly to ensure a quality service is delivered
• Proven ability to develop networks in order to contribute to long term developments
• Evidence of ability to solve expansive problems using initiative and creativity; and propose both practical and innovative solutions
• Evidence of ability to undertake and deliver specific projects and supervise short term project teams

Desirable Criteria

• Postgraduate/Professional qualification
• Experience of working in a Higher Education environment
• Fluency in Welsh, written and oral

Additional Information

The Research Service

Cardiff is an ambitious and innovative university located in a beautiful and thriving capital city. Our world-leading research was ranked 5th for quality amongst UK universities in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework and we provide an educationally outstanding experience for our 30,000 students. With an annual budget in excess of £500 million and around 6,000 staff, Cardiff is a member of the Russell Group of the 24 leading UK research-intensive universities. The University has 24 academic schools grouped into three colleges: Biomedical & Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering and Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences.

The University’s ambition is to rank consistently among the top 100 universities in the world. Cardiff is also developing its Innovation System through a focused programme of investment in people and infrastructure. Research funding secured from competitive, external sources exceeds £100 million annually and the University aims to grow this further through winning grants from a wide range of national and global sources.

The Research Service supports the University’s research community in initiating and delivering research and innovation activities. Led by the Director, Vanessa Cuthill, we provides services via over 100 expert staff organised in five specialist teams: Research Grants Office; Research Integrity, Governance and Ethics; Research Development; Research Commercialisation and Impact; Research Strategy and Operations and Business Engagement and Partnerships. The Department works closely with academic and professional services staff from all areas of the institution.

Salary Range

Min: 40,247

Max: 45,163

Job Category

Business / Strategic Management

Grade

Grade 6