Pre-award Costing Assistant
Location: QM London
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Patterns: Full Time, Hybrid Working
Full Time Equivalent (FTE): 1.00
Working Hours (Per Week): 35.00
Salary Range: £33,928 - £40,815 per annum
Contact Details: Jason Terranova, Team Leader Contracts & Costing, j.terranova@qmul.ac.uk
About Role
This role will provide department support within the Pre-award team and support with basic costings, so that colleagues can operate efficiently and effectively within the two organisations: Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS Trust. This will include supporting JRMO teams with the Helpdesk and Worktribe requests, preparing Demand Management call emails, and monitoring and maintaining the Horizon scanning information for the JRMO website.
This role is based two days a week onsite at Dept W in Stepney Green.
About You
You will have knowledge of administrative and HEI organisational procedures, acquired through training and/or relevant experience, and proficient IT skills in using Word, Excel and the relevant research grant management software. You may also have experience of using a HEI/NHS research funding costing tool and working knowledge of TRAC and FEC.
You will have effective interpersonal skills, to enable relationship building with staff at all levels, and strong organisation and planning skills, with the ability to prioritise your own workload to meet deadlines. You will be able to work within a team or work on own initiative, and be supportive and work collaboratively with colleagues.
About the JRMO
The Joint Research Management Office (JRMO) supports researchers across Queen Mary, University of London and Bart’s Health NHS Trust. Our highly trained team is on hand to support a diverse range of research activities, from getting a project off the ground to ensuring its smooth running and future development. The team members understand where their work fits into the strategic plans and goals of the organisations.
Our services include assisting with the approvals process, ongoing financial management of grants and awards, support with Research Integrity, and International Research and Innovation Partnership Support.
About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.
Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.
Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.
Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, campus facilities and flexible working arrangements.
Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.
Closing Date: 26/11/2026, 23:55
