Job Specifications
Company Description
LGC Ltd (www.lgcgroup.com) is a global life sciences company serving government, academia, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, food, environment, security, and sports sectors. Its Grant Management Group (GMG) works closely with the NIHR and other UK government bodies to support medical and health research. GMG manages funding calls, contracts and intellectual property, ensuring research projects are delivered efficiently and in line with strategic priorities, while collaborating with stakeholders across the NHS, academia, government and industry to advance health innovation.
The NIHR is funded through the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and was established with the aim of creating a health and care research system in which the NHS supports outstanding individuals, working in world-class facilities, conducting leading-edge research focused on the needs of patients and the public. The NIHR Research Infrastructure provides a platform to enable research by creating an environment where early stage and applied research can thrive. Our Research Infrastructure consists of research expertise, specialist facilities, a research delivery workforce and support services. The NIHR invests more than £606 million a year of infrastructure funding through a number of different five-year infrastructure funding schemes.
https://www.nihr.ac.uk/about-us/what-we-do/infrastructure
Job Description
We are looking to recruit a Research Manager to manage a high profile National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) portfolio of clinical and applied health research infrastructure funding schemes.
Job Purpose:
Reporting to a Senior Research Manager, the role will cover the full end-to-end process of research management, from launching new calls for applications through to the active monitoring of funded awards. You will become the knowledge holder in a funding area e.g. experimental or applied health research. The position also offers the opportunity for important collaborations with the UK government, academia, industry and the clinical community.
You will liaise with internal and external stakeholders, and provide our community of researchers with support and advice. We are looking for someone with a broad perspective of academia, funding, project management and health related policy. You should be confident interacting with your peers and the external scientific community; able to demonstrate critical thinking, and an ability to influence and build productive relationships.
Key Responsibilities:
Commissioning Research Infrastructure: Delivering new and renewed funding schemes for NIHR: Working across internal and external teams to develop end-to-end processes to support funding calls e.g. developing guidance, FAQs, selection criteria, organise and support funding committees and overseeing the contracting process for funded applications.
Contract monitoring and annual reporting: manage any contractual requests/changes required during the lifetime of the award; requests for information (e.g. Parliamentary Questions or FOI requests), and review and feedback on annual progress reports to provide assurance on research progress against goals, governance and management of the award.
Secretariat for directors fora and activities: Developing an annual programme of meetings to support the networking and collaboration of scheme Directors. This involves organising meeting agenda, developing content for papers e.g. data analysis, drafting reports, presentations and briefing documents.
Flexible support to team and community: conduct additional administration tasks and provide a high level of support across the team at peak work times;
Line Management: The post does not have any line management responsibility.
Qualifications
Required Criteria:
A Masters or PhD degree in biomedical or health sciences research (or significant equivalent sector experience)
Some experience of working in one of the following environments:
Major research funding/management environment
Research management within the NHS or HEIs or clinical trial/study coordination or applied health areas
Pharma/biotech
Academic environment
Excellent planning and organisational skills, able to prioritise and manage multiple tasks, working to challenging targets and deadlines
Evidence of ability to write reports and briefing documents, data analysis skills, demonstrating excellent attention to detail
Team player with an ability to build effective working relationships
Desirable Criteria:
Current knowledge of the UK’s health and care research and policy landscape
Experience in the research/grants management
Experience in stakeholder management within and across multiple organisations
Additional Information
Why work for us
Join our team and you’ll be working with an exceptional organisation who manage high quality health and care research for the benefit of patients and the public. NIHR is one of the UK’s largest funders of health and care
About the Company
We are a global leader in life science tools, partnering with customers to find solutions that diagnose, treat, feed and protect our growing population. Working collaboratively with our partners in the scientific community, our products and services help to solve some of the most complex challenges facing society and the planet.
Together we respond to global pandemics, pioneer innovative precision medicine, and improve the safety of our food, medicines and environment.
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