Hybrid Internal Redeployment Only Finance and Research Co-Ordinator, DECIPHer na Cardiff University
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Please note that this job is open only to current Cardiff University staff who are eligible for Redeployment.
Internal Redeployment Only - Finance and Research Co-Ordinator, DECIPHer
Cardiff University School of Social Sciences is seeking to recruit a Finance and Research Co-Ordinator to work within Centre for Development, Evaluation, Complexity and Implementation in Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer) Research Centre that is located within the school.
The post-holder will be responsible for establishing, maintaining and improving research coordination processes and systems, such as output data collation, management and analysis for reporting and impact.
You will enable efficient, effective and accurate financial monitoring and forecasting, costing grant bids, output record keeping, and funder reporting for a large portfolio of research projects and programmes.
You will provide professional advice and guidance, working closely with Principal Investigators, Professional Service teams and external stakeholders as required.
This post is full-time (35 hours per week), is fixed term until 31st March 2028 and is immediately available
Salary: £33,482 - £36,130 Grade 5 per annum (with annual increments up to final salary at top of grade)
New appointments are usually made at the starting point of the salary scale.
Responsible to Sara Jones, DECIPHer Centre Manager
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Sara, [email protected]. Tel (0)29 2087 9052
Cardiff University offers many excellent benefits, including 45 days annual leave (including bank holidays), blended working (meaning you will be able to work from home for some of your time), a cycle to work scheme and other travel initiatives, annual increments up the pay scale, and more. It is an exciting and vibrant place to work, with many different challenges and is a proud Living Wage supporter.
As the biggest university in Wales – and a major employer, with more than 7,000 staff – we are an ambitious and innovative university located in a beautiful and thriving capital city. We can offer you the chance to work in a vibrant organisation, with great benefits and opportunities for progression.
This role is eligible to be offered on a blended working basis, meaning that as well as spending time working on campus you may spend some time working from another location, e.g. your home. The University is committed to offering this flexibility, wherever the role and business need allows, supporting work-life balance.
Internal Redeployment Only - Finance and Research Co-Ordinator, DECIPHer
Cardiff University School of Social Sciences is seeking to recruit a Finance and Research Co-Ordinator to work within Centre for Development, Evaluation, Complexity and Implementation in Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer) Research Centre that is located within the school.
The post-holder will be responsible for establishing, maintaining and improving research coordination processes and systems, such as output data collation, management and analysis for reporting and impact.
You will enable efficient, effective and accurate financial monitoring and forecasting, costing grant bids, output record keeping, and funder reporting for a large portfolio of research projects and programmes.
You will provide professional advice and guidance, working closely with Principal Investigators, Professional Service teams and external stakeholders as required.
This post is full-time (35 hours per week), is fixed term until 31st March 2028 and is immediately available
Salary: £33,482 - £36,130 Grade 5 per annum (with annual increments up to final salary at top of grade)
New appointments are usually made at the starting point of the salary scale.
Responsible to Sara Jones, DECIPHer Centre Manager
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Sara, [email protected]. Tel (0)29 2087 9052
Cardiff University offers many excellent benefits, including 45 days annual leave (including bank holidays), blended working (meaning you will be able to work from home for some of your time), a cycle to work scheme and other travel initiatives, annual increments up the pay scale, and more. It is an exciting and vibrant place to work, with many different challenges and is a proud Living Wage supporter.
As the biggest university in Wales – and a major employer, with more than 7,000 staff – we are an ambitious and innovative university located in a beautiful and thriving capital city. We can offer you the chance to work in a vibrant organisation, with great benefits and opportunities for progression.
This role is eligible to be offered on a blended working basis, meaning that as well as spending time working on campus you may spend some time working from another location, e.g. your home. The University is committed to offering this flexibility, wherever the role and business need allows, supporting work-life balance.
Closing Date: 25 August 2025
Cardiff University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds. We therefore welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of sex, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, trans identity, relationship status, religion or belief, caring responsibilities, or age. In supporting our employees to achieve a balance between their work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.
Applications may be submitted in Welsh, and an application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.
Cardiff University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds. We therefore welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of sex, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, trans identity, relationship status, religion or belief, caring responsibilities, or age. In supporting our employees to achieve a balance between their work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements.
Applications may be submitted in Welsh, and an application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.
Job Description
Research Coordination
- Take the lead and be responsible for data capture within DECIPHer, proactively seeking and accurately recording all DECIPHer outputs. This will include grant applications, grant awards, publications, centre adoption of projects and other staff/student activity in line with funder requirements.
- Provide professional advice and guidance on data capture systems, processes and procedures to internal customers. You will use judgement and creativity to suggest the most appropriate course of action, ensuring complex and conceptual issues are understood.
- Gather and analyse data to inform senior management decisions, establishing basic trends and patterns in data and creating reports as appropriate.
- Establish and chair working groups/project teams as required to achieve strategic centre level key performance objectives.
- Work with the DECIPHer Communications and Events team sharing outputs for the web, newsletter and other media outlets to maximise DECIPHer’s impact.
- Work with the Director and Centre Manager to manage the production of funder reports and brochures, interrogating and interpreting data as required to showcase outputs.
- Work with the Public Involvement Officer to capture and record public involvement activity for bid development, reporting and monitoring purposes.
- Promote, co-ordinate and support DECIPHer’s research adoption process, liaising with project leads and key senior academics to maintain accurate records.
- Register new research projects with the Health and Care Research Wales Portfolio.
- Liaise with school and central university teams regarding funding opportunities to disseminate within DECIPHer.
- Provide professional support for DECIPHer’s key scientific, managerial and advisory committees.
- Provide general advice and guidance on Centre and University processes for DECIPHer centre staff in the absence of centre managers, as required.
- Work with academic and professional service colleagues to co-ordinate the preparation of budgets for research grant applications. Provide, support advice and guidance on Cardiff University processes, deadlines and funder rules, making recommendations on best practice.
- Work with Centre Manager to optimise DECIPHer project finance processes and procedures to internal and external customers. Use judgement and creativity to suggest the most appropriate course of action, ensuring complex and conceptual issues are understood.
- With the support and oversight of the centre managers, ensure that the co-ordination and financial management of projects are delivered effectively and on budget. Proactively change the delivery according to customer and funder requirements.
- Work with key senior staff within DECIPHer to monitor Centre budget spend, providing finance data and reports as required.
- Build working relationships with funders, key stakeholders and Cardiff University professionals to monitor and reconcile complex budgets.
- Work with the Administration Manager to co-ordinate funding approval for staff contractual changes and staff appointments related to the centre's portfolio of research projects.
- Work alongside DECIPHer Professional Service colleagues to support the work of the centre as required.
- Ensure that an understanding of the importance of confidentiality is applied when undertaking all duties.
- Undergo personal and professional development that is appropriate to and which will enhance performance.
- Abide by University policies on Health and Safety, Equality and Diversity.
- Undertake a variety of administrative duties to support the Centre when required.
- Perform other duties occasionally which are not included above, but which will be consistent with the role.
Salary Range Max.
36,130
Grade
Grade 5
Salary Range Min.
33,482
Job Category
Management & Executive
Additional Information
Centre for Development, Evaluation, Complexity and Implementation in Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer)
The DECIPHer Centre was established via UKCRC funding as one of 5 Public Health Research Centre of Excellence in 2009 – 2019, in partnership with the University of Bristol and Swansea University. In 2020, it became a Health and Care Research Wales funded public health research centre of excellence, in partnership with Public Health Wales, with funding to 2025. DECIPHer has now received sustainability funding from Health and Care Research Wales to continue its work from 2025-2030.
On going funding ensures that we can continue to provide:
DECIPHer plays a significant role in a series of major National Institute for Health Research funded investments, as well as the Wolfson Centre for Young People’s Mental Health and the ESRC funded leadership hub Behavioural Research-UK. Within its next 5 years, it will also partner with newly funded Health and Care Research Wales funded centres, including the National Centre for Suicide and Self-harm Prevention Research and the Wales Applied Virology Unit. It also hosts the School Health Research Network, and an internationally recognised programme of research-led teaching in methodology for the development and evaluation of interventions. Our research from 2025 will aim to improve the health of the public, reduce inequalities, and drive methodological innovation in the development and evaluation of health improvement interventions.
DECIPHer is located in the Cardiff University Social Science Research Park (SPARK) alongside a large number of other social science research centres. It is primarily based in the School of Social Sciences, and works across the University, with some investigators based in the School of Medicine. The School of Social Sciences is an internationally recognised centre of excellence in research and teaching across a range of subject areas, including sociology, policy studies, criminology, education and social work
Further details of the School's activities may be found on our home page: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/social-sciences
The DECIPHer Centre was established via UKCRC funding as one of 5 Public Health Research Centre of Excellence in 2009 – 2019, in partnership with the University of Bristol and Swansea University. In 2020, it became a Health and Care Research Wales funded public health research centre of excellence, in partnership with Public Health Wales, with funding to 2025. DECIPHer has now received sustainability funding from Health and Care Research Wales to continue its work from 2025-2030.
On going funding ensures that we can continue to provide:
- a platform for internationally excellent multidisciplinary public health improvement research
- an internationally excellent environment for career development in public health improvement research
- a focal point in Wales for collaboration between academia, policy, practice and the public in public health improvement research to maximise relevance, and impact.
DECIPHer plays a significant role in a series of major National Institute for Health Research funded investments, as well as the Wolfson Centre for Young People’s Mental Health and the ESRC funded leadership hub Behavioural Research-UK. Within its next 5 years, it will also partner with newly funded Health and Care Research Wales funded centres, including the National Centre for Suicide and Self-harm Prevention Research and the Wales Applied Virology Unit. It also hosts the School Health Research Network, and an internationally recognised programme of research-led teaching in methodology for the development and evaluation of interventions. Our research from 2025 will aim to improve the health of the public, reduce inequalities, and drive methodological innovation in the development and evaluation of health improvement interventions.
DECIPHer is located in the Cardiff University Social Science Research Park (SPARK) alongside a large number of other social science research centres. It is primarily based in the School of Social Sciences, and works across the University, with some investigators based in the School of Medicine. The School of Social Sciences is an internationally recognised centre of excellence in research and teaching across a range of subject areas, including sociology, policy studies, criminology, education and social work
Further details of the School's activities may be found on our home page: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/social-sciences
Career Pathway
Managerial, Professional and Specialist Staff – MPSS
Person Specification
Essential Criteria
It is Cardiff University's policy to use the person specification as a key tool for shortlisting. Therefore, candidates must evidence they meet ALL the essential criteria and, where relevant, the desirable.
As part of the application process, you are asked to provide this evidence via a supporting statement. Please ensure that the evidence you are providing corresponds with the numbered criteria outlined in the person specification. Your application will be considered based on the information you provide for each criterion.
When attaching the supporting statement to your application profile, please ensure you name it with the vacancy reference number: XXXXBR.
Your application will be at risk of not being progressed if you do not evidence you have met all essential criteria. The school welcomes the submission of CVs to accompany evidence of the job-based criteria.
Please note that these are also the criteria shortlisted applicants will be assessed against at interview and/or by other means (e.g. a skills test).
- Degree/NVQ 4 or equivalent Professional membership/experience
- Substantial experience of working within research co-ordination and project finance within a Higher Education setting.
- Ability to demonstrate professional knowledge of key advances in research funding and in the management of outputs data to give advice and guidance to internal and external customers.
- Ability to set up, proactively review, adapt and improve standard office systems, procedures and processes, in line with strategic plans.
- Ability to communicate (both written and oral) conceptually detailed and complex information effectively and professionally with a wide range of people.
- Evidence of ability to explore customers’ needs and adapt processes and service accordingly to ensure a quality service is delivered.
- Experience of mentorship, developing and supervising others.
- Ability to develop relationships within and across external organisations, other relevant individuals and centre staff to support research coordination.
- Evidence of ability to solve expansive problems using initiative and creativity; identifying and proposing practical solutions and resolving problems with range of potential outcomes.
- Evidence of excellence in project delivery, administration and organisation working unsupervised to manage your time effectively across multiple demands, planning and setting priorities, meeting deadlines, working both independently and as part of a team.
- Experience of working within a research centre.
- Good understanding of social science or health research and demonstrable knowledge and awareness of contemporary issues and key advances in improving public health and reducing inequalities.
- Evidence of advising, developing and planning costings for grant applications and awards.
- A willingness to undertake further training and development
- Fluency in Welsh, written and oral.
It is Cardiff University's policy to use the person specification as a key tool for shortlisting. Therefore, candidates must evidence they meet ALL the essential criteria and, where relevant, the desirable.
As part of the application process, you are asked to provide this evidence via a supporting statement. Please ensure that the evidence you are providing corresponds with the numbered criteria outlined in the person specification. Your application will be considered based on the information you provide for each criterion.
When attaching the supporting statement to your application profile, please ensure you name it with the vacancy reference number: XXXXBR.
Your application will be at risk of not being progressed if you do not evidence you have met all essential criteria. The school welcomes the submission of CVs to accompany evidence of the job-based criteria.
Please note that these are also the criteria shortlisted applicants will be assessed against at interview and/or by other means (e.g. a skills test).
