Senior Grants Manager; CGC

Position: Senior Grants Manager (CGC)
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** Senior Grants Manager (Cancer Grand Challenges)**£46,000 - £54,000 plus
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* Reports to:

** Head of Research - Cancer Grand Challenges.  
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* Contract:

** Fixed Term Contract (12 Months)  
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* Location:

** Stratford, London Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office). There will also be some international travel required in this role.  
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* Hours:

** Full time 35 hours per week  
** Final date to receive applications:
** Sunday 1st March 23:55pm  
** Interview Date:
** Approximately w/c 23rd March  
** Recruitment process:
** 2 stage -  Initial phone screen followed by competency-based interview.
** Visa sponsorship:
** You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is
** not
* * able to offer visa sponsorship.
** At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.
** We have an exciting opportunity for a
** Senior Grants Manager
** to join Cancer Grand Challenges and lead on grant and funding operations across the Research Team including through open funding calls and review / stewardship of research teams supporting Cancer Grand Challenges’ mission.

This is a rare opportunity to help shape and deliver one of the world’s most ambitious cancer research partnerships. You’ll be joining a passionate, collaborative team working to enable breakthroughs that could transform outcomes for people affected by cancer worldwide.
** About the team
** Cancer Grand Challenges is a global funding initiative founded in 2020 by the two largest funders of cancer research in the world:
Cancer Research UK and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the US ().Cancer Grand Challenges builds on the success of CRUK’s Grand Challenge that launched in 2015 – to date we have committed in excess of c $400m to fund 16 interdisciplinary teams, and our portfolio now includes over 1200 researchers and collaborators across 16 countries.

We recently launched our fifth call for applications to address seven new challenges, and we are thinking about what the next decade for the initiative will look like. So, this is an exciting time to join the team.

When you work at Cancer Grand Challenges, you’ll be employed by Cancer Research UK**.
*** Design, develop and maintain standardised work plans, process documents and reporting mechanisms for all research operational activity within Cancer Grand Challenges.
* Manage the operational activities of the Grand Challenge Scientific Committee and associated meetings, working closely with scientific colleagues and with the Chair and membership.
* Design, develop and oversee the application and review processes for Cancer Grand Challenges, identifying and implementing improvements within and between funding calls.
* Design, develop and oversee post-award grant operations and processes in collaboration with key stakeholders in CRUK and the NCI, specifically annual reviews, funding commitments and liabilities, reconciliations and grant audits at host institutions.
* Lead the development of appropriate research policy guidance documents for Cancer Grand Challenges stakeholders.
* Line manage direct reports, providing clarity of vision as well as establishing and maintaining appropriate team culture to deliver research operations function for Cancer Grand Challenges.
** Key experience, technical skills and competencies
*** Excellent communication and relationship management skills.
* Proven project management skills.
* Experience in grants management and familiarity with relevant applications and systems.
* Highly organised, able to set and work to challenging deadlines, and to hold others accountable to demanding deadlines.
* Able to understand and handle complex financial information and problems.
* Strong analytical skills – able to bring structure to complex problems, and extract key issues, and to present data in a clear and concise format.
* Resource management experience, with a demonstrated ability to coach and mentor others within a wider team.
* Process design expertise, including implementing and evaluating new processes.
** Team behaviours
*** Excited by and committed to the Cancer Grand Challenges initiative.
* Willing to go above and beyond to ensure this new…