Research Officer

Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity; Camden Town; Hybrid; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days annual leave

Flexible working

Enhanced pension scheme

Life assurance

Health & wellbeing schemes

Job summary

Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity is seeking a Research Officer to join the Grant Funding Team within the Impact & Charitable Programmes Department. The role focuses on delivering funding for paediatric research, managing grant schemes, and guiding applicants through the process.

The position is permanent with a hybrid working policy (minimum 2 days in the office). Salary is £34,500 per year, benchmarked within the charity sector. Closing date for applications is 23 November 2026.

Qualifications

• Experience in grants management or scientific research.
• Knowledge of research principles and the UK research funding environment.
• Paediatric research or similar discipline.
• Ability to learn new database systems quickly and work with grant management software.
• Experience with research quality assessments and peer review.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with high attention to detail.
• Strong organisational skills and multi-project management.
• Strong relationship building across scientific, clinical and research communities.
• Undergraduate degree in a relevant scientific discipline or equivalent experience.
• DBS check is required for this role.

Responsibilities

• Manage delivery of grant funding schemes and calls.
• Support applicants to ensure high-quality grant applications.
• Process, review and validate grant applications.
• Lead the peer review process using the Grant Management System.
• Project manage the Research Assessment Panel delivery.
• Incorporate patient and public voice into funding decisions.
• Assist implementation of the new Grant Management System and optimise processes.
• Provide secretariat support to research panels and committees.
• Manage meeting logistics and prepare papers and minutes.
• Review committee membership and tenure; suggest improvements.

Education

Undergraduate degree in a relevant scientific discipline

Tools

Grant Management System

Job description

Research Officer

Application Deadline: 24 November 2026

Department: Impact & Charitable Programmes

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity

Reporting To: Natasha Steeds

Compensation: £34,500 / year

Description

Do you have experience in research funding? Or a keen interest to apply a scientific degree to funding impactful child health research? If so, then we have a fantastic opportunity for you!

Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity is hiring for a Research Officer within the Grant Funding Team of the Impact and Charitable Programmes Department. The Department is responsible for ensuring charitable funding supports the highest quality projects within our funding priority areas of: research; patient and family experience; technology and medical equipment; hospital staff support; education; and environment (through supporting redevelopment projects and capital builds). The Research Grant Funding sub-team, where this role sits, delivers tens of millions of pounds in funding per year to support research in rare and complex paediatric diseases to GOSH and the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, as well as nationally. The Research Officer plays a critical role in delivery of our research funding.

Salary

The salary for this position is £34,500 per annum and we operate a hybrid working policy of a minimum of 2 days per week in the office.

In line with our EDI strategy and Total Reward policy, we calculate our salaries based on benchmarking data across the charity sector. To ensure fairness for existing staff and new joiners, we do not offer salaries above the advertised rate.

Key Responsibilities

Research grant management

• Managing the delivery of GOSH Charity’s response-mode funding schemes, including our National Research Project Grant and ‘Lift Off’ pilot study funding call and others.
• Supporting potential applicants via email, phone or in person to ensure we receive high quality grant applications.
• Processing, reviewing and validating grant applications.
• Leading the peer review process using our Grant Management System.
• Project managing the delivery of the Research Assessment Panel.
• Supporting the input of patient and public voice, to ensure they’re built into our research funding decision making.
• Supporting the implementation of the Charity’s new Grant Management System, developing system competence quickly and applying problem solving skills to establish suitable system processes required for effective grant management.

Committee management

• Providing operational and secretariat support to the Research Assessment Panel and Lift Off Scientific Assessment Panels, and other expert research review panels as required.
• Managing agendas and meeting logistics, including face to face meetings as they are arranged.
• Preparing papers and reports, and collating these from across the team for delivery to the Committee in good time.
• Preparing high quality minutes that provide a clear record of discussions, decisions, and actions, and disseminating these following internal and Chair approval.
• Support the regular review of the Committee membership and tenure.
• Evaluating and recommending improvement and applying sector best practice to the Committee operations.
• Being a first point of call for Committee members, supporting them to deliver their role and ensuring they have a good experience working with GOSH Charity.

This is a varied role with high impact; please refer to the full role profile for all the information.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Previous experience working in grants management or within relevant scientific research.
• Knowledge of research principles and the UK research funding environment.
• Sound knowledge of paediatric research or similar discipline.
• Competence with database systems and the ability to get up to speed with a new system quickly.
• Experience of research quality assessments, including peer review.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with high attention to detail.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects at once.
• Strong relationship building, with the ability to network in the scientific, clinical and research communities.
• Either an undergraduate degree in a relevant scientific discipline, or equivalent relevant work experience.

DBS - note a basic DBS check is required for this role.

Closing Date:23rd November 2026

Benefits

• 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• A flexible approach to working arrangements.
• Access to our enhanced pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Access to various health and wellbeing schemes, including the employee assistance programme.