Job Description

Salary: \xc2\xa351,382

Closing date: Sunday, 17 September 2023

Contract type: Permanent

The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy, and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships.

We plan to spend \xc2\xa316bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.

These challenges need the bold science we support, but they won\xe2\x80\x99t be solved by science alone.

This role is part of the Chief Research Programmes Officer\'s front office - a team of 6 - and reports to the Head of Research Programmes Operations

In this role you will:

Work closely with members of the Chief Research Programs Officer\'s front-office team on tasks and projects allocated by the Head of Research Programme Operations and Lead Advisor.

Work with colleagues across Research Programmes and provide them with desk research, analysis, frameworks and actionable recommendations on issues and opportunities related to Wellcome\'s strategy and programmes.

Remain up-to-date on matters affecting relationships with key partners, coordinating with Government Relations and Strategic Partnerships to ensure that the CRPO is current on developments affecting Wellcome\xe2\x80\x99s relationship with key partners, and that GRSP is informed of developments arising from interactions between the CRPO and key partners.

Support thinking on and work for Research Programmes submissions to various internal and external governance groups and boards.

To be successful in this role you will have:

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to employ diverse approaches to effectively communicate complex information to individuals and groups from a range of different background and different seniority levels.

Experience working with and delivering reports and presentations to senior executives, ideally in public health or pharmaceutical research and development.

The ability to manage a diverse portfolio of work and manage a fluctuating, sometimes heavy, workload and competing priorities .

Experience working at a management consultancy firm or similar is highly desirable.

To apply please upload your current CV and complete our short application.

Interview dates: Early October

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Our Hybrid Way of Working

We understand that our colleagues have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to build a flexible working environment, in which people can perform at their best. We are currently working 2 days per week (Tuesdays and Wednesdays) from our Euston Road offices (as part of our hybrid Ways of Working) with the remaining 3 days from home.

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