R&D Costing & Contracts Officer

Job overview

Research and Development Costing and Contracts Officer

Velindre University NHS Trust

Are you ready to make a difference in the fight against cancer? Do you want to improve the lives of those living with cancer?

Velindre University NHS Trust is seeking a dynamic and motivated person to support the exciting developments within our Research Service, and its cutting‑edge clinical research trials.

The Role

As the R&D Costing and Contracts Officer, you will be essential to the development of our R&D costing and contracts service for commercial research. You will work closely with researchers, research nurses and R&D Office colleagues to ensure that accurate costs are recovered from commercial research sponsors and disbursed appropriately to partners providing research support services, using research agreements based on national and local templates. You will support cost recovery in a variety of ways including in some non-commercial research.

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities

• Analyse information about research projects, seeking input from researchers, research nurses or R&D Office staff, to make judgements about the appropriate costing of commercial research using the UK-wide commercial costing tool.
• Review study-specific financial information in model research agreements to ensure compliance with NHS research costing and cost recovery principles.
• Review and assess research contracts, comparing them to agreed national and local templates, to determine whether all relevant issues have been addressed.
• Work closely with colleagues to reduce research set-up delays around costings and contracts, ensuring rapid trial initiation while protecting NHS resources.

About you

We are looking for a highly numerate person with strong analytical skills and significant attention to detail who can work collaboratively to solve problems whilst maintaining a customer focussed professional approach. You will demonstrate a detailed understanding of national NHS processes for research costing and contracting within the context of NHS site set-up. You will have experience of using complex financial spreadsheets designed by others and be able to work on your own initiative with minimal day-to-day supervision within a multi-disciplinary team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job Description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click "Apply now" to view in Trac

This post is fixed term/secondment until 31/03/2029. If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post. PLEASE NOTE Applicants will need to get permission from their line manager before submitting their interest, a release form to be included with your application form can be downloaded  here. (This form is for the staff member and line manager to complete and return to you)