Project Coordinator (UK Cancer Vaccine AI Scientist & Supercomputing)

Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford; Oxford; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

The Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, invites applications for a Project Coordinator (UK Cancer Vaccine AI Scientist & Supercomputing) to support a flagship ARIA-funded programme, reporting to the Programme Director.

You will provide a Chief of Staff function for the programme, coordinating teams, budgets, meetings and events, while engaging with university, NHS, government, funders, industry and technology partners to ensure milestones and expenditure are tracked and

Responsibilities

• Support programme operations for a large, multidisciplinary cancer vaccine AI project.
• Oversee budgets, milestones, meetings and events, and executive support for senior leaders.
• Coordinate teams, monitor expenditure and ensure actions are progressed on schedule.
• Engage with University, NHS, government, funders, industry and technology partners and assist with visits.

Job description

We are seeking to appoint a Project Coordinator (UK Cancer Vaccine AI Scientist & Supercomputing) to join the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, working on an state of the art project funded by Advanced Research & Innovation Agency.

Reporting to Dr Lennard Lee, Programme Director, you will serve as UK Cancer Vaccine AI Scientist & Supercomputing Project Coordinator, performing a Chief of Staff function for the programme.

The UK Cancer Vaccine AI Scientist & Supercomputing Project is a government-supported national flagship research initiative hosted by the University of Oxford. The project integrates sovereign AI supercomputing, AI Scientists, automated laboratories, advanced immunology and near-patient manufacturing to accelerate the development of safer and better personalised cancer vaccines for NHS patients.

The project establishes an end-to-end strategy to connect AI-led target discovery with autonomous experimental validation, vaccine manufacturing and NHS clinical trials. Experimental and clinical results feed back into the AI Scientist, creating a recursive self-improvement cycle of learning and discovery from computational prediction through to patient delivery.

You will support the Programme Director and senior leadership team to facilitate project operations and keep this complex multidisciplinary project running smoothly. They will take ownership of defined programme processes and activities across team coordination, budgets, meetings, events, communications, external engagement and executive support, monitoring milestones and expenditure and ensuring actions are progressed. The post holder will also work closely with University, NHS, government, funder, industry and technology partners and support senior-level meetings, government and dignitary visits and project events.

This position is offered full time on a fixed term contract until 30 September 2030 and is funded by ARIA.