Job summary
The Royal Marsden has a vital role in championing change and improvement in cancer care through research and innovation, education, and leading-edge practice. We are incredibly proud of our international reputation for pushing the boundaries and for our ground-breaking work ensuring patients receive the very best and latest in cancer treatment and care. We host the only cancer-focused National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) together with our partner, the Institute of Cancer Research.
This is a pivotal role. You will manage a world class team of researchers delivering a prestigious, multi-million-pound programme funded by the NIHR and the International Centre for Recurrent Head and Neck Cancer (EVEREST, NIHR 202862)). This involves a national collaboration led by The Marsden with ambitious aims of revolutionising the pathway for suspected head and neck cancers. In addition, you will also support clinical academics across the BRC in their preparations of high-quality research funding applications.
Interviews to be held on the 19th of December
Main duties of the job
The primary function of this role is to take responsibility for the smooth day to day management of an NIHR programme of research. Programmes of work contain multiple projects or packages of work that each could be delivered on a stand-alone basis, but here are being delivered in a co-ordinated way to enable delivery of the best possible added value for UK health and social care.
The post-holder will provide operational leadership that will ensure the timely progression, co-ordination and control of the programme with pre-defined objectives, work plans and resources. They will lead programme organisation across multiple organisations, ensuring projects remain aligned to the programme vision; enable and monitor meaningful stakeholder engagement that contributes to the realisation of programme outputs/products; ensure resources are deployed for timely delivery of activities; oversee processes, systems and management structure that promotes work of the highest quality, and managing and mitigating risks to programme delivery.
The secondary function will be to part of a team that provides a corporate service across The Marsden and The ICR on an ad hoc basis to lead the project management of research funding applications to external funding bodies (e.g., MRC and NIHR).
About us
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals - one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey - as well as a Medical Daycare Unit in Kingston Hospital.
At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.
At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification:
Leadership, Strategy and Programme management
Supporting research funding applications
- On an ad hoc basis, project manage pre-award research funding applications. The postholder will:
- Help investigators identify the right funder/scheme for their proposed project.
- Lead the coordination of input from co-investigators, The Marsden/ICR departments, including finance, technology transfer, research operations, legal, patient and public involvement and from external collaborating organisations, including finance and contracts input.
- Work with investigators to complete relevant templates, providing guidance on requirements for funding applications.
- Collate relevant text, schematics and other documents and upload to funder specifications.
- Provide general advice to enhance competitiveness of applications under the principles of adding value in research.
- Support communication with funders, in particular response to feedback, revision of plans and contracting.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification:
Leadership, Strategy and Programme management
Supporting research funding applications
- On an ad hoc basis, project manage pre-award research funding applications. The postholder will:
- Help investigators identify the right funder/scheme for their proposed project.
- Lead the coordination of input from co-investigators, The Marsden/ICR departments, including finance, technology transfer, research operations, legal, patient and public involvement and from external collaborating organisations, including finance and contracts input.
- Work with investigators to complete relevant templates, providing guidance on requirements for funding applications.
- Collate relevant text, schematics and other documents and upload to funder specifications.
- Provide general advice to enhance competitiveness of applications under the principles of adding value in research.
- Support communication with funders, in particular response to feedback, revision of plans and contracting.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Advanced or higher degree qualification (e.g. MSc or PhD) in a in the health, medical or biological sciences or equivalent experience of research design and/or conduct.
- Project or programme management qualification/accreditation (eg PRINCE 2 or MSP) or equivalent experience such as managing NHS based clinical/health research projects/programmes.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of establishing, developing and managing a multiorganisational (Higher Education Institutions, NHS, commercial organisations and others) team within a matrix structure.
- Experience in operational leadership, including committee governance and reporting to stakeholders.
- Experience of devising and/or managing complex budgets working within the AcoRD framework.
- Experience of project managing or making significant contributions to research funding applications with the aim of developing/translating technologies into patient benefit.
Desirable
- Experience of establishing and monitoring multi-party contracts
- Experience of designing and delivering training
Skills / knowledge / abilities
Essential
- High-level organisational approach to manage relationships, resource allocation and risks.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to effectively network and build relationships with people from a diverse range of experience, seniority. With an ability to work beyond organisational boundaries.
- Ability to communicate with confidence and diplomacy to influence through credible debate and proven ability to manage by leadership and negotiation.
- Proactive problem-solving skills, with an ability to autonomously and/or collaboratively drive mitigation/resolution
- Excellent presentation/report writing skills, with a keen understanding of how to meet the needs/expectations of audiences.
- An understanding of research funder missions, remits and schemes, UK health and clinical research infrastructure and how they add value through research.
- An ability to rapidly gain an understanding of a new work area/topic, autonomously driving own learning/information gathering.
- A high level of 'digital competency', including an ability to use standard resources such as Microsoft 365 and acquire new digital skills as required.
- An appreciation of the importance of demonstrating impact, knowledge mobilisation and the diversity of methods to disseminate research work, and the protection and commercialisation of intellectual property.
Desirable
- An understanding and value of the UK standards for patient and public involvement in health research.
- An understanding of the importance of identifying and mitigating health inequalities through research design
- An understanding of the academic career pathway
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Advanced or higher degree qualification (e.g. MSc or PhD) in a in the health, medical or biological sciences or equivalent experience of research design and/or conduct.
- Project or programme management qualification/accreditation (eg PRINCE 2 or MSP) or equivalent experience such as managing NHS based clinical/health research projects/programmes.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of establishing, developing and managing a multiorganisational (Higher Education Institutions, NHS, commercial organisations and others) team within a matrix structure.
- Experience in operational leadership, including committee governance and reporting to stakeholders.
- Experience of devising and/or managing complex budgets working within the AcoRD framework.
- Experience of project managing or making significant contributions to research funding applications with the aim of developing/translating technologies into patient benefit.
Desirable
- Experience of establishing and monitoring multi-party contracts
- Experience of designing and delivering training
Skills / knowledge / abilities
Essential
- High-level organisational approach to manage relationships, resource allocation and risks.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to effectively network and build relationships with people from a diverse range of experience, seniority. With an ability to work beyond organisational boundaries.
- Ability to communicate with confidence and diplomacy to influence through credible debate and proven ability to manage by leadership and negotiation.
- Proactive problem-solving skills, with an ability to autonomously and/or collaboratively drive mitigation/resolution
- Excellent presentation/report writing skills, with a keen understanding of how to meet the needs/expectations of audiences.
- An understanding of research funder missions, remits and schemes, UK health and clinical research infrastructure and how they add value through research.
- An ability to rapidly gain an understanding of a new work area/topic, autonomously driving own learning/information gathering.
- A high level of 'digital competency', including an ability to use standard resources such as Microsoft 365 and acquire new digital skills as required.
- An appreciation of the importance of demonstrating impact, knowledge mobilisation and the diversity of methods to disseminate research work, and the protection and commercialisation of intellectual property.
Desirable
- An understanding and value of the UK standards for patient and public involvement in health research.
- An understanding of the importance of identifying and mitigating health inequalities through research design
- An understanding of the academic career pathway
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
