Sophie Noctor

Pronouns: She/her
  • Research Project Administrative Officer

Key roles and responsibilities

ReMed Project Support, Admin, Research and Marketing 

  • To provide project with timely and effective management information and to follow-up on discrepancies in a timely manner. To act as a first point of contact for project staff requiring information, or data returns, and to liaise with academics, researchers, and students when appropriate.  
  • To maintain project IT services, including a project website and social media accounts, secure shared data space, as well as managing the storage and safe keeping of files and other documentations. 
  • To assist the project with overseeing the financial transactions including processing of invoices, purchasing of office and laboratory consumables and equipment, booking travels and processing expenses, overseeing payments for networking activities (workshops and conferences). 
  • To arrange, support, attend formal meetings, circulating papers, taking minutes, preparing subsequent correspondences, and to assist with general administration of project meetings. 
  • To liaise and respond to queries by the project funders (EPSRC), advisory group members, industrial partners and end-user group members, and other internal and external project collaborators. 
  • To arrange for hosting project industrial and academic visitors, national and international visiting researchers, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and governmental officers. 
  • To contribute to preparation and generation of reports and other documentations required as part of various project activities and internal and external assessment processes.  
  • To oversee the administration of staff and student attendance, monitoring and booking of annual holidays and related issues such as requests for Leave of Absence and Industrial Secondments.  
  • To ensure that the project is in full compliance with university policies and procedures including Data Protection and Freedom of Information. 
  • To remain open to providing support in any area of the wider project needs and when requested and to ensure that key services are maintained at all times; to assist other members of staff during peak periods in the academic cycle. 
  • To ensure compliance with relevant University policies and procedures. 

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