Research Manager

2 weeks ago

Cambridge, United Kingdom Wellcome Sanger Institute Full time

Do you want to help us improve human health and understand life on Earth? Make your mark by shaping the future to enable or deliver life-changing science to solve some of humanity's greatest challenges.

**About the Role**:
The Wellcome Sanger Institute conducts cutting edge genomic research on an unprecedented scale and our Operations teams play a vital role in enabling and supporting our science.

The Human Genetics Programme and the Generative and Synthetic Genomics Programme are supported by a joint Operations team, and we are currently seeking a dynamic, collaborative and solutions-focused Research Manager to join our team, on a full time, permanent basis.

**Key responsibilities of the role**:

- Providing comprehensive operational and administrative support to the Head of Programme, Faculty and Associate Faculty members of both the Human Genetics and the Generative and Synthetic Genomics Programmes, enabling them to deliver their ambitious scientific goals.
- Managing Faculty's Research portfolios, this includes grant and budget management.
- Providing effective administrative support by obtaining, managing and maintaining appropriate ethical and legal approvals for collections of human or non-human material for research, specific to projects. Agreements include and not limited to materials transfer agreements, research collaboration agreements, data access agreements, confidentiality agreements.
- Working closely with the Scientific services representative (SSR) within the Scientific Operations team, to monitor progress, provide regular Demand forecasts, establish project priorities (in collaboration with the Team Lead - Human Genetics Project and Research Management), and ensure projects are being delivered in a timely manner.
- Adopting new project management tools within the team, such as Asana, Jira and others, which will enable the sharing of information via reporting tools, such as Tableau. This will enable the agreement of priorities for action, distribution of workload, overseeing progress, opportunities for risk, and issue avoidance.

**About You**:
This is an excellent opportunity to join our team and make an impactful difference to the science that is delivered. We will work with you to provide opportunities for growth and development within the role. You will be joining a tight-knit team within an Administration Network that promotes personal and professional development, thus giving you the chance to grow within the role and build your potential.

**Essential Skills**:

- Previous scientific experience or qualification
- Previous experience of working in a science programme or equivalent environment
- Experience of producing, managing, and reporting on budgets
- Knowledge and understanding of scientific third party funding
- Exceptional organiser with the ability to prioritise and manage work load
- Good understanding of the governance and regulation of the use of human samples
- Excellent IT skills, including Excel
- Well-developed negotiating and influencing skills
- Ability to write and structure reports
- Excellent attention to detail
- Previous experience of effective communication with internal and external customers
- Clear understanding data protection and GDPR policy and high respect for confidentiality
- Able to work effectively under pressure and demonstrate resilience
- Ability to work flexibly and collaboratively
- Ability to be adaptive and open to change
- Solution focused
- Able to build and maintain strong working relationships
- Positive, open-minded with a flexible approach
- Commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion within the Institute

**Ideal Skills**:
**Other Information**:
**Salary per annum**:£39,853 to £47,000 (dependent upon skills and experience)

**Hybrid Working**:
Hybrid working options are available and can be discussed further at interview stage.

**Application Process**:
**Closing Date**:26th November 2023

**Working at Wellcome Sanger**:
Our flexible-hybrid working environment is designed to support a healthy work-life balance. This means you can work flexibly with a combination of working from home, and working from our Campus to allow you to focus on being productive and part of the team while enjoying the benefits of working flexibly.

We aim to attract, recruit, retain and develop talent from the widest possible talent pool, thereby gaining insight and access to different markets to generate a greater impact on the world. We have a supportive culture with the following staff networks, LGBTQ+, Parents and Carers and Race Equity to bring people together to share experiences, offer specific support and development opportunities and raise awareness. The networks are also a place for allies to provide support to others.

We want our people to be whoever they want to be because we believe people who bring their best selves to work, do their best work. That's why we're committed to creating a truly inclusive culture at Sanger Institute. We will consider all individuals without discrimination and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, where everyone can thrive.

**Our Benefits**:
We are proud to deliver an awarding campus-wide employee wellbeing strategy and programme. The importance of good health and adopting a healthier lifestyle and the commitment to reduce work-related stress is strongly acknowledged and recognised at Sanger Institute.

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