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Funding Lead The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) - Head Office Salary: 56,745 per annum Band: UKRI F Team:NERC Funding Operations, Business Delivery, and Insight Hours: Full time minimum 0.8 FTE Contract Type: Fixed term (18 months) Location: Polaris House, Swindon, Wiltshire - Hybrid working available Closing Date: 15/05/25 The Funding Lead will take responsibility for leading NERC funding operations. They will ensure alignment with the UKRI Funding Service, overseeing the embedding of process, training, and guidance for the UKRI funding service and take part in the leadership of the funding service across UKRI. You will champion the UKRI funding service and profession within NERC and be a first port of call for questions relating to funding from staff. Key Responsibilities Leading funding operations in NERC, giving direction, support, and influencing to ensure consistency and alignment with new ways of working, policy, and process within NERC. Lead the NERC funding operations team of C.12 colleagues, with direct line management of three reports across grant operations, policy, and expert review. Manage the resource required to operate efficiently within NERC, and working across UKRI to secure support where additional resource is required to manage peaks across the UKRI business, within budgetary limitations. Engage with the UKRI Funding Service to shape the funding environment across UKRI actively contributing subject matter expertise to developing the scheme, policy, and process environment for funding. Embed new ways of working by leading the development of skills and capabilities of colleagues, identifying needs, driving innovation, and developing opportunities and solutions in funding within NERC. Responsibility for funding opportunity scheduling in NERC and alignment to organisational delivery across the funding service. Leading to support and embrace change programmes including implementation of new ways of working, actively prompting the behaviours/core values of the profession. Provide input and support into UKRI work streams, governance, business structures and shared capabilities, including transformations plans and organisational change. Person Specification Experience delivering funding operations in a complex and changing environment, including expertise and understanding of funding policy, process, and expert review relevant to NERC/UKRI. Experience of managing and representing a team, and a supportive and motivational people leadership approach. Working knowledge of project and business change management principles and delivery. Ability to shape and plan the delivery of strategic goals. Strong communication skills with key stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes and buy-in even for unpopular messages. Ability to facilitate and carry out options analysis in order to recommend next steps to senior colleagues in a logical and objective manner. Influence and negotiate decision-making, enabling an adaptable and evolving approach to ensure the best outcomes. Working knowledge of applying resource planning and management in order to best enable short term delivery, as well as working to longer term/strategic objectives. Ability to identify risks and mitigations or associated challenges and adaptability in approach for managing risks. Evidence strong prioritisation skills. Benefits A list of benefits below: An outstanding defined benefit pension scheme 30 days' annual leave in addition to 10.5 public and privilege days (full time equivalent) Employee discounts and offers on retail and leisure activities Employee assistance programme, providing confidential help and advice Flexible working options Plus many more benefits and wellbeing initiatives that enable our employees to have a great work life balance! UKRI is an Equal Opportunity & Disability Confident Employer. How to apply: For full details, please visit our careers site. Please submit an application including your CV and a Cover Letter that showcases how your skills and experience align to the requirements of the role. AwellthoughtthroughapplicationprovidingevidenceandexamplesofhowyoumeettheadvertisedessentialanddesirablecriteriaforthepostwillbeconsideredfarmorefavourablythanagenericcoveringletterandCV. Please apply online, if you experience any issue applying, please contact TPBN1_UKTJ