"Senior Manager, Post-Award Grant Compliance"

The Francis Crick Institute - Finance and Grants Team

Location: The Francis Crick Institute, London

Short summary

The Senior Manager – Post-Award Grant Compliance plays a key role in ensuring the Francis Crick Institute’s externally funded research remains compliant with funder terms and conditions. With a diverse and growing funding portfolio, this role provides expert oversight of post-award grant compliance across the organisation.

You will lead the development and implementation of robust post-award processes, working closely with finance, research and operational teams to provide clear guidance on funder regulations. Acting as a key point of contact for external funders and auditors, you will ensure grants are managed effectively and in line with requirements.

As a senior member of the Finance and Grants team, you will support leadership capacity by deputising for the Post-Award Team Lead and contributing to process improvements, systems development and best practice across the institute.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading post-award grant compliance activity, ensuring adherence to funder terms and conditions.
• Developing and improving post-award processes, procedures and system controls.
• Providing expert advice to scientific and operational colleagues on compliance and risk.
• Identifying and managing compliance risks across the funding portfolio.
• Leading responses to internal, external and funder audits.
• Developing funder guidance and delivering training to support best practice in grants management.

About you

You will have:

• Extensive post-award grants management experience, including grant finance and reporting.*
• Strong knowledge of major funder requirements, particularly UKRI, UK charity and European Commission funding.*
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to influence and advise confidently.*
• A strong understanding of post-award processes, compliance and sector best practice.
• Proven experience of improving systems and processes to enhance grant management.*

About us

The Francis Crick Institute is a biomedical discovery institute dedicated to understanding the fundamental biology underlying health and disease. Its work is helping to understand why disease develops and to translate discoveries into new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, infections, and neurodegenerative diseases.

An independent organisation, its founding partners are the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, Wellcome, UCL, Imperial College London and King’s College London.

The Crick was formed in 2015, and in 2016 it moved into a new state-of-the-art building in central London which brings together 1500 scientists and support staff working collaboratively across disciplines, making it the biggest biomedical research facility under in one building in Europe.

The Francis Crick Institute will be world-class with a strong national role. Its distinctive vision for excellence includes commitments to collaboration; developing emerging talent and exporting it to the rest of the UK; public engagement; and helping turn discoveries into treatments as quickly as possible to improve lives and strengthen the economy.

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