Research Facilitator in Life Sciences

Bournemouth University’s (BU) vision is worldwide recognition as a leading university for inspiring learning, advancing knowledge and enriching society through the fusion of education, research and practice. Our highly skilled and creative workforce is comprised of individuals drawn from a broad cross section of the globe, who reflect a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives and experiences that help to build our global learning community.

BU is fostering the growth of research that is relevant to society. To support this, the Research Development & Support (RDS) Team is seeking to appoint a Research Facilitator to join the team on a full-time basis supporting the Life Sciences – focusing on:

NIHR: National Institute for Health and Care Research 
Medical Research Council (MRC – UKRI) 
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC – UKRI), and 
Wellcome Trust

The post-holder proactively contributes to the growth and development of research activity in their specialist area, as well as for BU’s Strategic Investment Areas (SIAs), to include horizon scanning, the strategic targeting of funding sources and opportunities, developing and critiquing proposals with academic colleagues, and developing inter/multidisciplinary research collaborations. 

The Research Facilitator leads one Funding Development Officers who undertake the operational duties, including proposal coordination, costing/pricing and proposal submission.  Each Research Facilitator in the team is responsible for contributing to and managing at least one pathway from the R&KE Development Framework, and at least one major pre-award project/initiative from the RDS delivery plan; this may change on a rotational basis.

We are looking for an experienced individual with excellent communication and organisational skills, strong writing skills, with an ability to build relationships, inspire confidence, and have a commitment to service excellence. You will require strong networking capabilities, be flexible in your approach and above all, be proactive.

In return for your talents, we offer a generous remuneration and benefits package, as well as flexible working hours. 

For informal enquiries about the post, please contact Julie Northam [email protected].

To learn more about BU’s research, please visit: http://research.bournemouth.ac.uk/  

BU values and is committed to an inclusive working environment.  We seek a diverse community through attracting, developing and retaining staff from different backgrounds to contribute to inspirational learning, advancing knowledge and enriching society.  To support and enable our staff to achieve a balance between work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.