Contracts Officer (0.6FTE)

This role is based at Harwell Campus/hybrid, working 22.5 hours (0.6 FTE) over 3 or 4 days per week. Please indicate preference at application. 

Salary from £40,000 per annum, pro rata based on part-time hours.

The Contracts Officer role sits within the Franklin’s busy operations department. The successful candidate will work with key research and operations colleagues to facilitate effective contractual support, seeking advice from legal counsel or senior colleagues as needed. The role will hold responsibility for the timely and effective movement of contracts through their lifecycle and maintaining accurate contract trackers and registers.

This is a hybrid role with onsite facilities at Harwell Campus.

Part time hours are available at 0.6 FTE (22.5 hours) over 3 or 4 days per week. Please indicate preference at application.

Selection criteria

Essential
– Law degree or professional legal qualification or significant proven experience in a relevant setting.
– Relevant experience in research contract drafting, reviewing, and negotiating in a higher education or Research & Development collaborative environment.
– High organisational skills and attention to detail.
– Able to build strong internal and external relationships.
– Demonstrates commitment to ongoing learning and development.
– Effective decision maker, able to navigate uncertain or ambiguous situations.

Desirable
– Relevant experience in an institute, charity or similar setting.
– Experience of delivering collaborative research agreements in a range of contexts (e.g. consortia agreements, UKRI grant funded collaborations, DTP studentships).

The Rosalind Franklin Institute is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from all. Our job description sets out the skills and experience we believe are needed to be able to do this job but, research also tells us women are much more likely than men to take this list of requirements as absolute and self-select out of the process. If you think you can deliver this role then we want to hear from you, regardless of the boxes you did not tick.

The Rosalind Franklin Institute (the Franklin) is a national interdisciplinary research centre, funded by the UK government through UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). We are dedicated to creating new disruptive technologies which will allow us to see the biological world in new way. These technological advances will speed up the discovery of new medicines, help find new diagnostics and contribute to a deeper understanding of human health and disease.

The Franklin operates from a purpose-built research facility on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus near Didcot, a unique community of government, academia and industry working to accelerate progress on key issues. The 700-acre campus is steeped in world-firsts, and technology and research are at the heart of everything Harwell does.

Our building houses both specialist laboratories, research scientists and operational staff within a state-of-the art facility designed to inspire our people in their work and create a welcoming hub for our collaborations and visitors. Our research values of adventure, novelty, engagement, and utility are drawn on and exemplified by the Franklin team through our collaborations with universities and industrial partners, both in the UK and internationally.

The Franklin’s underlying aim is to produce the best science for research today, and this means resolutely embracing a diverse team, who have a wide range of experiences, skills and knowledge to push forward on the innovative work our institution delivers. Both our work and our institution are better for it. For further information, view our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy.

At the Rosalind Franklin Institute we welcome applications from all around the world!

How to apply:

To be considered for this role, please submit your application via our recruitment portal, with your CV and a cover letter explaining why you think you are the right person for this job. Please include information about your education and work experience.

Closing date: The closing date for applications is 23:59 on Sunday 30th March 2025. Interviews are currently planned to take place in early April 2025.

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