JOB SUMMARY

Funding Officer
UKRI Talent Team
Salary: £29,923 per annum
Band: UKRI - Band C
Team: Talent and Skills Team
Contract Type: 1x Open ended and 1x Fixed Term to 31/03/2027
Hours: Full-time/ Part Time (minimum 0.6 FTE) (flexible working available)
Location: Polaris House, Swindon, Wiltshire - Hybrid working available
Closing Date: Sunday 24th August 2025
We are recruiting two Funding Officers within the UKRI Talent and Skills team, who will support the delivery of our two pan-UKRI programmes the Future Leaders Fellowships and Cross Research Council Responsive Mode schemes. The Funding Officers will be assigned to one of these programmes to support the associate operational processes for the assessment of these schemes, including the management and co-ordination of the administrative workloads within this team. These roles contribute to UKRI’s priorities in maintaining the UK’s position as a global leader in R&D by attracting, retaining, and developing talented people and funding excellent interdisciplinary research.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Delivering the peer review of applications received to FLF or CRCRM programmes ensuring that applications are reviewed objectively, fairly and in a timely manner
• Processing of applications through the UKRI Funding Service through all stages from application submission through to awarding and post award management
• Identifying and managing conflicts
• Preparing materials and managing logistics for panel meetings
• Attending and supporting panel meetings
• Processing applications following on from funding decisions, communicating notifications and feedback to applicants
• Task managing the Funding Administrators, providing support, training, coordinating tasks and having oversight of activities and workloads
• Liaising with a wide range of people, both internally and externally, managing queries and providing clear responses using scheme guidance.
• Supporting the evaluation (CRCRM only)
• Carrying out any other duties/ projects that may be required of the post across UKRI Talent and Skills.