Funding and Contracts Manager

Salary: c. £60,000 Bonus: Discretionary Location: Kings Cross, London (Tuesdays-Thursdays - 3 days in our office, Monday + Friday - anywhere) Employment Type: Permanent, full time About ARIA ARIA is a new R&D funding agency built to unlock technological breakthroughs that benefit everyone. We fund scientists and engineers to pursue research at the edge of the possible. From climate change to AI, society faces enormous challenges and opportunities that can be uniquely addressed by science and technology. ARIA was created to activate the UK’s world-class R&D in new ways, so we can meet these head on. Our success is shaped by one question: how will ARIA transform the lives of the UK’s future generations? Whether that’s a life-changing new technology or a burgeoning new industry, it should be obvious that ARIA played a catalytic role. If you want to help make breakthroughs like these possible, come and build ARIA with us. Learn more here. Role Summary As Commercial & Funding Contracts Manager, you will help turn ARIA’s programme ideas into funding calls and signed awards. You will work with Programme Directors, programme teams, and the Director of Commercial & Funding Operations to run funding calls, guide teams through project selection, and turn selected projects into signed awards as quickly as possible. You will help Creators (the researchers and teams ARIA funds) understand their agreements and how ARIA works. You will also help improve the guidance and tools the team relies on. This role would suit someone who has helped take funding or investment from an open call or selection process through to signed agreement, whether at a research funder, a VC or investment firm, a university research contracting function, a government commercial function, or somewhere similar, and who enjoys keeping complex work moving at pace.