Royce Project Administrator

The Henry Royce Institute is the UK’s national institute supporting advanced materials research and innovation. Royce was established to ensure the UK can exploit its world-leading expertise in advanced materials and accelerate innovation from discovery to application. With over £200million of facilities in dedicated state-of-the art laboratories Royce is ensuring that academics and industry in the UK’s materials community have access to world-class research capabilities, infrastructure, expertise, and skills development.

The project team are responsible for managing the Royce Industrial Collaborations Programme and a portfolio of multi-disciplinary high-profile collaborative and rapidly evolving projects. This role will provide high quality, effect administration support to the Royce project team. Based at Manchester, the post will work closely with project managers, operations, academics and technical staff across the Royce Institute, as well as with external stakeholders including universities, research and technology organisations (RTOs) and industry.

The Project Team Administrator will provide high quality, effective administrative and financial support to the Royce project team and their activities involving a variety of stakeholders including partners, collaborators and internal departments. This will include delivering a customer-oriented service in triaging and responding to external enquiries, collating information, distributing reports and maintaining project files and records. A meticulous, proactive approach and high levels of self-motivation are required.

What you will get in return:

• Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
• Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
• Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
• Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
• Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

Our University is positive about flexible working you can find out more here

Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.

Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

Any recruitment enquiries from recruitment agencies should be directed to [email protected].

Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.

Please note this role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route of the Points Based System. Candidates will need to be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK in order to be eligible to take up the post.

Enquiries about the vacancy:

Name: Rachel Lyons

Email: [email protected]

General enquiries:

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This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.