Senior Research Project Manager

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading cancer treatment center in Manchester is seeking a resourceful individual for a part-time role in their LWBC research theme. Responsibilities include driving project objectives, managing the budget, and supporting collaborations. The role offers flexible working options and requires effective teamwork across various sectors. Interested candidates can contact the Research Programme Manager for informal visits or further details.

Qualifications

• Resourceful and motivated individual with collaborative skills.
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Ability to manage budgets and produce high-quality reports.

Responsibilities

• Drive the delivery of BRC objectives across Themes and Clusters.
• Act as primary point of contact for Manchester BRC LWBC Theme management.
• Support industry and charity collaborations to source funding.

Job description

Overview

We are looking for a resourceful and motivated individual to join our Living With & Beyond Cancer (LWBC) research theme, who enjoys working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams across organisational boundaries.

Role and responsibilities

• Drive the delivery of BRC objectives across Themes and Clusters, provide accurate, timely and high-quality reports on project progress and outputs against forecasts and strategic aims both internally (including to the BRC senior management team) and to external bodies (including the NIHR).
• Work with theme/cluster leads, programme leads and key researchers to identify and overcome risks to ensure successful delivery of the theme objectives.
• Act as the primary point of contact for Manchester BRC LWBC Theme management; develop and maintain appropriate project plans and performance management systems; provide timely and accurate progress updates as required; analyse and evaluate Theme progress on a regular basis; formulate, present and implement strategies to minimise risk and maximise benefit to the BRC.
• Manage the Theme budget; produce reports including the Theme annual report and ad hoc internal reports.
• Develop and report impact cases and work with the BRC Communications team to identify and report newsworthy items in a timely fashion.
• Support industry and charity collaborations and help source external funding opportunities to further develop the research theme.

Context about the organisation

The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% of patients are referred to us from other parts of the country. We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

Terms

This is a part-time role at 0.5FTE, for a fixed term until March 2028. If already employed by The Christie, an internal secondment would be considered. Agenda for Change banding is pending for this post and therefore this is Band 7 subject to evaluation.

We support flexible working, with home-based and office-based options. Some travel across Greater Manchester may be required.

How to apply / contact

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Emma Thorpe
Job title: Research Programme Manager/Cancer Cluster Manager
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Telephone: [phone]
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Available Monday to Thursday only