Responsibilities:
- Administrative support for various A*STAR Grants
- Support in A*STAR grant calls including drafting of grant call announcements to faculty, advising PIs and school administrators on funding guidelines, work processes and grant call opportunities.
- Provide guidance to faculty and School administrators to better understand the grant requirements through checklists or guides or standardized forms
- Facilitate on the budget scrubbing process prior to the award of the project
- Coordinate internal review panel meeting to shortlist proposals, when required
- Assist awarded PIs with their letters of award and facilitating research account opening
- Support the team to manage post award requests from faculty for their research grants (i.e. variation requests, report submissions), in accordance to the T&Cs of the research grants awarded)
- Provide support and guidance for RISE (Research Information System) and iGrant related enquiries
- Support in preparation of reports and statistical data
- Involve in ad-hoc initiatives undertaken by the Office
Requirements:
- A Bachelor degree from recognised university with at least 1 to 2 years relevant work experience
- Preference will be given to candidates who have held administrative positions in a central office within a large organization
- High competency in Microsoft applications
- Good writing, communication and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent organizational, time management and planning skills.
- Highly motivated individual with strong analytic skills, a keen eye for details, can multi-task and work independently as well as on a team
- Willing to learn on the job.
Hiring Institution: NTU
