Project Coordinator - UK Cancer Vaccine AI Scientist & Supercomputing

University of Oxford; Oxford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Oxford is seeking a Project Coordinator for the UK Cancer Vaccine AI Scientist & Supercomputing initiative. The role supports the Programme Director and senior leadership in operations, governance, and external engagement across a national flagship ARIA-funded project.

You will oversee defined programme processes, track milestones and spend, and liaise with partners, NHS and government bodies to keep the multidisciplinary programme running smoothly.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating complex research programmes or projects.
• Capability to manage budgets and expenditure tracking.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate project activities across multidisciplinary teams.
• Support Programme Director with governance, meetings, events and communications.
• Monitor milestones and expenditure; ensure actions are progressed.
• Engage with university, NHS, funders, industry and partners as needed.

Skills

Programme coordination

Budget monitoring

Executive support

Stakeholder engagement

Meetings management

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.

Only applications received before 12 midday on Monday, 2 November 2026 will be considered.