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Position: Junior Grants Officer (Pre-award)

Location: Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University (close to Victory Monument)

MORU Tropical Health Network

This post will be part of a busy, dynamic team that is responsible for securing multi-million dollar grants for global health research undertaken by world-class medical doctors and scientists from Mahidol University and the University of Oxford.

This post will be located within the Grants Team, reporting to the Grants & Contracts Manager and supervised by the Pre-award Grants Officer on a day-to-day basis. The main function of this team is to ensure that funding applications from scientists across the MORU Network meet all requirements from Oxford/Mahidol Universities and the respective donor, and are of the highest possible standard to maximize the chances of the project being awarded funding. The team’s remit also encompasses ongoing grant management once contracts are awarded.

Responsibilities of the post

Overall purpose:

To provide management information and support preparation, development and administrative processing of funding applications that MORU submits to the world’s leading global health donors.

Key Tasks:

• Developing funding applications. You will be involved with the development of funding applications, supporting funding bids and will gradually take on responsibility for small funding applications with a view to gradual career development.

• Identifying Funding Opportunities: You will research and disseminate details of funding calls through a monthly report disseminated across the MORU Network.

• Notification of intent to apply for external funding: You will respond to Principal investigators’ notifications of intent to apply for external funding and provide the relevant documents to them.

• Seeking approval from MORU’s Science and Strategy Committee (SSC): You will submit the MORU Grant Application Checklist and Approval Form to the SSC to seek for approval.

• Project tracking: You will maintain MORU’s funding proposals “Pipeline” tracking tools. The Pipeline is used as a management information tool for tracking the progress of funding applications. You will update it on a daily basis with information related to all grant-seeking activities.

• Proposals & projects repository – maintain files of important project documents on the dedicated repository in MORU’s SharePoint. These files will include final submitted applications and signed contracts etc.

• Organise the scheduling of team meetings and Funding Planning Meetings with MORU departments to support researchers in developing their own portfolio of projects/grants.

• Undertake other reasonable tasks as assigned.

Qualifications & Profile

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university

• Minimum two years experience providing administrative support at an international organization

• Well-organised with excellent time management and ability to prioritise own work load

• Excellent, research and analytical skills, with excellent attention to detail

• Excellent communication skills

• Fluent in English (written and spoken)

• Advanced IT skills, particularly MS Word, Excel, Outlook, Oracle etc

Terms & conditions

The post is based in Bangkok at the Mahidol Oxford Research unit (https://www.tropmedres.ac/).

The salary will be based on MORU scales and will depend on experience and qualifications.

The salary package includes:

• 13th months of salary

• health and life insurance

• social Security

• provident Fund

• 20 days of annual leave

How to apply:

Please submit your CV and a covering letter explaining why you are suited to this role. Applicants who do not include a covering letter will not be considered for short-listing to Grants & Contracts Manager

Mr. David Gandy

Email: david@tropmedres.ac

Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU)

Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University

420/6 Rajvithi Road, Bangkok 10400