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Investment Manager
Salary: £36,650 per annum
Hours: Full time or Part time (minimum 0.8 FTE)
Contract type: Fixed-Term (8 months)
Location: Polaris House, Swindon, Wiltshire, with hybrid working
Grade: UKRI Band D
Closing date: Sunday 23 February 2025
Proposed interview date: Tuesday 4 or Thursday 6 March 2025
The Arts and Humanities Research Council is recruiting for an 8 month fixed-term Investment Manager to support the Health Humanities portfolio.
Team purpose
This role sits within the Health, Environment and Urban Humanities (HEUH) team at AHRC. The HEUH team vision is to place humanity at the heart of solutions and responses to the biggest and most pressing contemporary challenges facing the UK and the world. There are 3 portfolios within the team: health, environment, and cities and urban environments, supporting a diverse and growing number of investments in areas such as creative health, social prescribing, resilience, weather and climate change, natural history, cities, circular fashion, and immersive technologies.
AHRC's investment in health research has been rising since 2012 and our portfolio contains over £60m of funding, covering health research challenges including mental health, health inequalities, tackling infections, healthy ageing, and much more. AHRC's focus is the application of arts and humanities disciplines to tackle these challenges.
Job purpose
Reporting to a Senior Investment Manager, you will provide management support across AHRC's Health research portfolio, including delivery of the AHRC led interdisciplinary Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities programme. You will work collaboratively across AHRC, with UKRI colleagues, and with external stakeholders.
The Investment Manager will work closely with Senior Investment Managers to identify strengths, gaps, and trends in the portfolio, scope and develop new areas for investment, and prepare associated bids for funding.
You will work with colleagues to support information and data management, strategy development, analysis and reporting. You will coordinate responses to requests for information; work with the data team to analyse our funded portfolio; contribute to briefings and scanning activities; and support the development of case studies underpinning future activities and strategy.
Main outputs and activities
* Support and/or lead the management of current investments and funding opportunities relating to the health research portfolio.
* Lead the collection, analysis, and communication of information in relation to funded projects and programmes in the health portfolio.
* Support scoping work, including portfolio analysis and engagement with stakeholders to inform development of strategy and new initiatives.
* Coordinate events, workshops, conferences, visits and engagement activities, working closely with relevant colleagues across the organisation.
* Contribute to the monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) of funded projects, including development of research impact narratives and case studies.
* Support the development of bids for new funding in areas within the team's remit.
* Develop and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, including representing AHRC on different cross-UKRI groups.
* Provide secretariat support, including minute-taking to internal or external groups.
* Represent AHRC externally, giving presentations or facilitating discussions as needed.
* Actively contribute and participate in AHRC corporate projects and represent the HEUH team on internal steering groups.
ABOUT YOU
The ideal candidate will have an enthusiasm for the arts and humanities, and a particular interest in how these disciplines can be applied to contemporary challenges in health research. You will be a solution-oriented and proactive team player, with direct or relevant experience of the research funding landscape.
Shortlisting Criteria
Qualifications
• Degree or equivalent experience in a relevant discipline or sector
Essential
Key Knowledge and Skills
• Experience in successfully managing projects and/or programmes of work, and ability to work independently and use initiative
• Ability to analyse and summarise complex information/data and propose workable solutions
• A good understanding of and/or experience in the UK higher education system, particularly administration, commissioning, or management of arts and humanities research grants and capital projects
Essential
Essential
Desirable
Interview Criteria
UKRI Competency
• A background in Health Humanities research or a related discipline, or a good grasp of the role of arts and humanities in health research
Desirable
Leading & Communicating
• The ability to lead projects, and to manage and develop colleagues to enable their learning and development as well as to deliver personal, team and corporate objectives.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to draft guidance documents, reports, and give presentations.
Essential
Essential
Working with Others
• The ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships and networks with a range of internal and external stakeholders at all levels, and to use these to deliver outcomes for the organisation.
• Excellent team working skills, and experience of encouraging a collaborative approach within and across teams and organisations.
Essential
Essential
Changing and Improving
• A willingness to embrace and facilitate effective change and to help others to do the same.
Essential
Making effective decisions
• The ability to translate evidence into clear and concise written and oral communications to enable robust and transparent decision making, or for strategy development and implementation.
Essential
Additional Details
Employee Benefits
UK Research and Innovation recognises and values employees as individuals and aims to provide a pay and reward package that motivates staff to the best of their ability.
Equal Opportunities
We strive to make decisions based on individual merit and ability. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and promote equality of opportunity in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.
How to Apply
Only online applications will be accepted and should be submitted in the form of an up-to-date CV and covering letter each of no more than two sides of A4.
Applicants who would like to receive this advert in an alternative format (e.g. large print, Braille, audio or hard copy), or who are unable to apply online should contact us by telephone on 01793 867000.
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