Senior Research Grants Administrator - Strand, London, WC2R 2LSAbout usThe Senior Research Grants Administrator with work within the Post-Award unit, ensuring effective administration of research grants. This role involves working within a team responsible for typically international funded grants, ensuring adherence to funding regulations, and optimizing grant administration processes. The role holder will report directly to the Research Grants Manager International.About the roleThe Post-Award unit at King’s College London is seeking to recruit a dynamic and experienced Research Grants Administrator to be part of our thriving unit and support the award management function within the team. As a Research Grants Administrator, you will be responsible for the full award management function, ensuring the seamless delivery of services, monitoring work in progress, and reporting on projects. You will be part of the International Team, managing a portfolio of research projects primarily funded by the European Commission and Horizon Europe grants under the UKRI guarantee. You will optimize the efficient management of research funding by ensuring the accurate and timely management of funding from project initiation through to closure. This includes maintaining awareness of changes to terms and conditions affecting allowable costs and post-award administration. Effective administration involves overseeing staff requests, such as contract renewals and new recruitment, providing high-quality reports and financial returns and supporting audits when required. You will monitor grant expenditures to ensure adherence to grant conditions, coordinate the recovery and administration of indirect costs, and provide ad hoc reports and financial returns as needed. Drafting or assisting with correspondence to funding bodies for grant term variations and working strategically to reduce overall research debt are critical aspects of this role. Setting clear goals and targets for the team will ensure a methodical approach to managing research funds effectively. This is a full time (35 Hours per week) post, offered on an indefinite contract. The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.