(一) 提供一般辦公室運作的行政支援，包括管理辦公室用地、策劃及督導辦公室裝修及搬遷安排，以及統籌檔案管理工作等；
(二) 提供人事工作上的行政支援，包括協調招聘工作及處理聘任事宜等；
(三) 就落實各項政策或教資會／研資局推行的研究資助計劃提供行政支援，包括處理經大學遞交的研究資助申請、聯絡學科小組成員及外部評審員，以統籌研究資助申請的評核工作、在評審過程中提供相關的秘書處支援等，並就受資助項目的監察和評核工作提供行政支援；
(四) 為教資會／研資局轄下的工作小組及委員會提供秘書服務，包括為學科小組成員的委任事宜提供支援、備存小組成員的利益申報、定期檢討小組成員名單等，並協助草擬會議文件、為研究資助計劃的相關會議及活動提供秘書處支援；以及
(五) 其他受指派的工作。

(a) To provide executive support in general office administration, including managing office accommodation, planning and supervising office renovation and re-location exercises and co-ordinating records management matters, etc.;
(b) To provide executive support in personnel matters, including co-ordinating recruitment exercises and processing appointments matters, etc.
(c) To provide executive support to the implementation of various policy initiatives or University Grants Committee/Research Grants Council’s funding schemes, including handling research grant applications from universities, co-ordinating proposal assessment by external reviewers and panel members, and supporting the selection process, etc. and the monitoring and assessment of funded projects, etc.;
(d) To provide secretariat support to working groups, panels and sub-committees under the University Grants Committee/Research Grants Council, including providing support to appointments matters of panel membership and maintaining registers of interests, membership review, etc., to prepare draft discussion papers and to provide secretarial and logistical support to meetings and events in relation to the research funding schemes, etc.; and
(e) To perform other duties as assigned.