Take a lead role in monitoring business activities and resources, pre-empting future opportunities and challenges, and identifying solutions to present as regular reports to the Senior Management Team and wider team to support the continued performance and growth of the Group. Develop and manage a system to source, monitor and evaluate usage of external agencies and businesses to ensure both the smooth running of programmes and value for money. Work with Procurement to troubleshoot and manage invoice payments. Work with the Finance team to track budgets ensuring correct allocation of codes to support resource planning year on year. Work with the PSRC Career Development senior leads to support implementation and annual review of the Career Development Strategy. Support senior research leads with the preparation and submission of funding. applications, specifically leading on setting up the costing for applications. Support the co-ordination and preparation of annual reports and activity reports to funders and online tracking platforms. Work with the Community Involvement and Inclusion Lead and the lay leaders to support delivery of our patient and public involvement and inclusion strategy. To work across the team distilling complex information into high quality accessible formats to support plans to reduced safety inequities among communities. Proactive planning, organisation and full administrative support to a broad range of meetings, including booking venues, arranging catering, preparing agendas, minutes and meeting follow up. To co-ordinate support for all executive and advisory board meetings within the PSRC and YQSR. Plan and book travel and accommodation arrangements ensuring the most effective use of time and money and processing claims for expenses. Organise workshops and events on behalf of the YQSR Group including venue selection, catering, presentation equipment, liaison with presenters, drafting programmes and on the day, event management. Assist the Director and senior management team with the management of the e-roster system which includes the reporting of staff sickness, annual leave and the finalisation of timesheets. Assist the Director and senior management team with the HR processes such as the recruitment and induction of new staff and monitoring of annual appraisals Take responsibility, across all studies, for liaising with study leads to ensure the correct processes are adhered to for local study set up, monitoring and close. Maintain the YQSR shared electronic files in a logical and organised manner Provide human resources support to the YQSR team. Other ad-hoc duties as required by the YQSR Group. Line management responsibility Undertake the appraisal and objective setting for the research administrator and monitor mandatory training to ensure compliance.