Senior Research Administrator

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading institution in Liverpool seeks a Senior Research Administrator to support impactful research activities. The role involves financial management, administrative support, and coordination of research outputs, ensuring smooth operations across various teams. The successful candidate will lead a small team and contribute to the success of key research initiatives.

Benefits

30 days annual leave

Generous occupational pension schemes

Agile working

Cycle to work scheme

Discounted sports centre membership

Qualifications

• Experience in administrative support for research teams.
• Ability to manage budgets and financial processes.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate meetings and monitor research activities.
• Lead a small administrative team and oversee workloads.

Skills

Organisational

Detail-oriented

Job description

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We're looking for a highly organised and detail-orientated Senior Research Administrator to join our team in supporting the Human Challenge Facility, Liverpool Vaccine Group, the Centre for TB Research and the RESPOST study. This is a key role, ensuring the smooth coordination of day-to-day administration and financial activities that underpin impactful, world-leading research.

This is a varied role where you'll provide logistical and administrative support to research teams, coordinate meetings with internal and external stakeholders, and monitor and share key research activities, deliverables, and milestones, including grants, publications, partnerships, impact case studies, and knowledge exchange.

This role has responsibility for leading a small administrative team, overseeing workloads and performance to help deliver efficient support across the research portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

Finance processes

• Reconciling and monitoring of research budgets in collaboration with LSTM Finance Team
• Processing and coding expense claims, raising purchase orders, and maintaining accurate records for compliance and reporting
• Providing advice on appropriate spending under LSTM and grant policies
  
  

Admin and coordination

• Provide administration and logistical support to research teams, including travel bookings, team events, diary coordination, and minute taking
• Tracking HR, contracts and finance activities
• Act as point of contact for queries and internal communications, ensuring clear, timey and respectful information sharing
  
  

Supporting research

• Track and disseminate research outputs, deliverables and milestones including grants (applications, awards and opportunities), publications and research uptake/knowledge exchange, impact case studies, new and ongoing partnerships and collaborations, engagement activities, conferences and events.
• Preparing documents such as leaflets, posters and publicity material with team members, and add publications to online archives
• Support research filing - chasing GCP certificates and CVs, printing documents and ensuring secure storage
  
  

(To view the full responsibilities and person specification criteria, please see the job description)

In Return We Offer

• 30 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, and additional Christmas closure days
• Generous occupational pension schemes
• Agile working
• Government backed “cycle to work” scheme
• Affiliated, discounted staff membership to the University of Liverpool Sports Centre
• Plus, a host of additional family friendly policies
  
  

Application Process: To apply for the position please click on the apply link and upload your CV and Covering Letter.

Inclusion is central to our values at LSTM

We seek to attract and recruit people who reflect the diversity across our communities, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, nationality, faith or belief, social background, age and disability. LSTM selects candidates based on skills, qualifications, and experience.

We welcome conversations about flexible working; and applications from those returning to employment after a break from their careers.

About LSTM

Take a look at some of the great work we have achieved over the past year by viewing our annual report: https://www.lstmed.ac.uk/about/annual-reports-and-financial-statements

LSTM actively promotes Equal Opportunities and Safeguarding

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Administrative

• Industries

  Higher Education

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