JOB SUMMARY

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We are seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented AI Research Administrator to support our AI research team. The ideal candidate will have strong administrative skills and a keen interest in artificial intelligence and machine learning. As an AI Research Administrator, you will be responsible for managing the administrative aspects of our AI research projects, facilitating communication within the team, and ensuring smooth operations.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy
•    Provide comprehensive administrative support to the AI research team, including scheduling meetings, managing calendars, and coordinating travel arrangements.
•    Assist in the preparation and submission of research proposals, reports, and publications.
•    Maintain and organize research documentation, databases, and files.

Business
•    Business Analysts, Business Partners, COO Business, ITO, CDO, internal staff, clients and 3rd parties.

Processes
•    Coordinate and track the progress of AI research projects, ensuring deadlines and milestones are met.
•    Facilitate communication and collaboration among team members and external partners.
•    Assist with the planning and execution of research events, workshops, and conferences.

Governance
•    Prepare and distribute regular updates and reports on research activities and progress.
•    Serve as a point of contact for internal and external inquiries related to AI research projects.
•    Assist in the preparation of presentations and other communication materials.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
•    Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
•    Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles

Key Stakeholders

•    Collaborate with business leaders to identify opportunities for AI applications that address key business challenges and drive growth.
•    Facilitate communication between business units and technical teams, ensuring a clear understanding of AI project objectives, requirements, and expected outcomes.
•    Conduct workshops and meetings to gather business requirements and translate them into technical specifications for AI solutions.

Other Responsibilities

•    Work with senior management to develop and refine the bank's AI strategy, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.
•    Identify and prioritize AI use cases that have the potential to deliver significant business value.
Develop business cases for AI projects, including cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment, and ROI estimation

Qualification
•    Education     Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
•    Languages     English proficiency

Role Specific Technical Competencies
•    In addition to behavioural skills our technical Competency framework describes the technical knowledge required for a group of similar roles in a Job Family. Please select technical competencies from the library here. It is recommended that there is no more than 6 technical competencies selected per role.

•    Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field.
•    Proven experience in an administrative or project coordination role, preferably within a research or academic environment.
•    Strong organizational and time-management skills.
•    Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
•    Proficiency in office software, including Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and project management tools.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.