"Research Development Manager"

About us

The Health Research Development team supports research income generation activity across the four health faculties at King’s. Our team focuses on helping faculties deliver King’s health research priorities.

Our work is enormously varied and ranges from supporting the implementation of major organisational strategic priorities, to supporting individuals seeking their first research grant. We help group leaders, departments, schools and faculties develop their plans for grant acquisition, provide insight into funder priorities and processes, and support the development of grant proposals from concept, to drafting, to interview preparation. We also run a variety of internal funding streams and selection processes to manage funder application caps.

About the role

This role is one of two posts supporting the world leading Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience, working closely with academic staff to understand their research funding goals, encouraging and supporting applications to appropriate opportunities from concept to award offer and managing internal selection processes. Using your professional services and academic networks you will work with colleagues across the University to maximise opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration. Working with the research development team, you will deliver training activities for academic staff that increase awareness of research funding streams and capability to apply.

To thrive in this role you’ll bring a strong grounding in a relevant field of research with a good understanding or how health research funding works and experience of working in a research funding environment. You will be solution focussed, with an organised and adaptable approach and be able to quickly understand complex concepts. And you will bring the motivation and personal qualities to engage with senior academic staff and professional service colleagues to understand their goals and challenges and help address them. In return we offer an unbeatable learning environment, with opportunities to develop your career in a collaborative and highly valued team.

This is a full time post (35 hours per week) reflecting our workload, but there may be some scope for reduced hours on enquiry. The role requires a blend of working closely with scientific staff in person and across our campuses, alongside opportunities for remote working.

For an informal conversation, please contact Alasdair Rankin, Director of Research Development (Health)