Advisor, Research Grants

About the role

Are you passionate about supporting impactful research? Join a collaborative and high-performing team where you’ll play a key role in enabling research success across the University. As a Research Grants Advisor, you will contribute to the end-to-end management of externally funded research projects, supporting both pre- and post-award activities. Working closely with researchers, Faculty Research teams and external funding bodies, you will provide advice on funding rules and eligibility, assist with grant submissions, and help ensure projects are delivered successfully. Knowledge of the research funding landscape would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance on grant opportunities, eligibility and funding rules
• Support the preparation and submission of research proposals across key systems (e.g. RMS, Sapphire, P URE)
• Assist with post-award management, including milestone tracking and compliance
• Liaise with funding agencies and internal stakeholders to support successful project delivery
• Coordinate communications on funding opportunities, including workshops and researcher engagement activities

Benefits

• Flexible, family-friendly policies
• On-site gym
• On-site medical services
• Grocery store
• Early Childhood Education and Care facilities

We believe people deserve to feel welcome, supported, and empowered to realise their potential. Being a values based organisation, UC sets a goal to be the national sector leader in equity, diversity, inclusion and access via our Reconnected Strategy. UC encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, neurodiversity and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.