Research Programme Manager

Department: Wolfson Institute of Population Health
Salary: £52,549 - £58,595 (Grade 6)
Reference: 2682
Location: Whitechapel
Date posted: 19 June 2024
Closing date: 3 July 2024

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About the Role 

This role will support the management of two major programmes led by Professor Rohini Mathur in the Centre for Primary Care at QMUL.  

About You 

You will lead the administrative aspects of the NIHR-funded research programme including developing detailed project management and monitoring systems and managing and coordinating complex tasks. You will support academic colleagues and students with the successful delivery of the Welcome Trust-funded Health Data in Practice PhD programme, comprising MRes and research-focused PhD components. .  

You will play a key role in the senior management teams, liaise with stakeholders across QMUL and internationally, and report as required on expenditure, budget, and outcomes. 

About the School/Department/Institute/Project 

The Wolfson Institute of Population Health is a world-class grouping of scientists and educators in applied health sciences, including public and global health, health services and primary care research, clinical trials, health policy and economics, health data science, social sciences, epidemiology, biostatistics, translational and implementation science. Our vision is to drive forward research within and across disciplines to generate the evidence to implement health system change, improve population health, and nurture social equity.  

The NIHR Global Health Research Groups project is a collaborative program led by QMUL, Chiang Mai University in Thailand and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The program aims to formally test whether a new approach to delivering healthcare results in better and fairer care for people with high blood pressure, diabetes, and kidney disease compared to routine care in Thai primary care settings. 

The Health Data in Practice 4-year PhD Program brings together leading academics from across QMUL to deliver MRes and PhD training to more than 30 PhD students. 

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, campus facilities and flexible working arrangements.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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