- Ref Number
- B16-01395
- Professional Expertise
- Administration and Business Support
- Department
- School of Education (B16)
- Location
- London
- Working Pattern
- Full time
- Salary
- £42,099–£50,585
- Contract Type
- Fixed-term
- Working Type
- Hybrid (20% - 80% on site)
- Available for Secondment
- Yes
- Closing Date
- 29-Feb-2024
The Social Research Institute is one of the leading centres for social research in the UK. It is home to seven internationally renowned research units:
- Centre for Longitudinal Studies
- Centre for Time Use Research
- CLOSER
- EPPI-Centre
- Quantitative Social Science
- Social Science Research Unit
- Thomas Coram Research Unit
All of our centres are multidisciplinary, with staff drawn variously from economics, sociology, social policy, demography, psychology, anthropology and social statistics. We promote problem-solving interdisciplinary research on particular themes where we have outstanding scholarship and critical mass, e.g. gender, families, work, inequalities, migration, bio-social interactions.
About the Centre for Longitudinal Studies
The Centre for Longitudinal Studies is an interdisciplinary research centre, which is funded by ESRC to scientifically lead and run four of Britain's internationally renowned cohort studies:
- Next Steps (formerly the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England)
The Centre has also recently been funded to test the feasibility of establishing a new UK birth cohort study, the Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study (funded by ESRC), and is collaborating on two further new longitudinal studies, the Children of the 2020s (funded by DfE) and the Covid Social Mobility study (COSMO) (funded by UKRI).
The Research Finance Administrator will specialise in administering the financial activities of the designated area, ensuring effective procedures are documented and adopted for dealing with all aspects including processing financial transactions, procurement and monitoring expenditure of the Centre’s grants.
The post will assist the Centre Manager and Centre Director in achieving a high quality and timely service to staff, and others internal and external to the centre.
The role will include handling matters relating to the MyFinance, Axiom and WorkTribe system. They will provide financial information and reports for the Centre Manager, and other Senior Managers to monitor expenditure. They will also help in monitoring grants, budgets, expenditure enquiries and arrange reimbursement of expenditure to staff and students.
DBS clearance is required for this post.
Please note previous applicants need not apply.
This post is funded to 31 August 2025 in the first instance.
You will be educated to A Level (Minimum of 2 at grade C or above), or equivalent, or having acquired relevant skills in Finance or Accountancy and have knowledge of financial processes and regulations associated with general financial administration.
You will also have knowledge of research funding processes and regulations within a higher education/research environment and excellent knowledge of Excel, including the ability to understand and use numerical formulae.
Your application form should address all the person specification points and should clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria.
It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
- 41 Days holiday: 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days
(pro rata for part time staff)
- Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme (pro rata for part time staff)
- Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
- Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
- Immigration loan
- Relocation scheme for certain posts
- On-Site nursery
- On-site gym
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
- Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
- Discounted medical insurance
Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.
As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.
We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.
These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.
Our faculty holds an Athena SWAN Bronze award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.
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