Wolfson Institute Manager

Department: VP Health's Office
Salary: £61,896 - 69,114 per annum (Grade 7)
Reference: 2425
Location: Whitechapel
Date posted: 29 May 2024
Closing date: 11 June 2024

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About the role: Applications are invited for Institute Manager to join the Wolfson Institute of Population Health. This is a critical, full-time, fixed-term role within the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. Reporting to the Faculty Director of Operations, this role plays a major strategic role in the development and operation of the Institute. Working with the Institute Director to deliver change across a diverse and complex organisation, you will utilise your strategy development, resource planning, operational management, and demonstrable leadership skills to deliver successful and effective change. You will also have experience of project and programme management, have an excellent understanding of the higher education and health education sectors, with operational experience in both.

About the Wolfson Institute of Population Health

The Wolfson Institute of Population Health (WIPH) is an exciting and dynamic environment, home to more than 450 staff, 100 PhD students and c500 postgraduate taught students. It harnesses expertise across a wide range of population-based research and education activities and aims to be an internationally recognised centre of excellence in population health, primary care and preventive medicine. The Institute is organised into six separate research centres which, though complementary and following the Institute strategic plan, also have Centre-specific objectives and requirements.

About Queen Mary

In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework 92% of Queen Mary's research was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent. The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry offers international excellence in cardiovascular, inflammation, cancer, genomics and population health research and teaching, and supports clinical service for a population of 2.5 million with unrivalled ethnic diversity in East London and the wider Thames Gateway. Our research changes lives and working with four NHS Trust partners in East London, we are central to delivering impact on health-related challenges for local and global populations. We are firmly embedded in our East End and global communities through a strategy focused on Better Health for All..

The starting salary will be Grade 7, £61,896 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance. The role is hybrid, with offices based at both Whitechapel and Charterhouse Square Campus. The role is fixed-term until 6 September 2024 with the possibility of becoming permanent.

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.

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.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Dr Natalie McCloskey, Deputy Faculty Director of Operations at [email protected]

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