Job Description
Could you build the foundations of a research funding programme from the ground up? Since 1988, Children with Cancer UK has raised more than £300 million and has funded over 200 research projects for children and young people with cancer. We re now embarking on a brand-new phase, transforming how we fund future research projects and measure and evidence the real-world impact of every pound we invest. Lived experience will be positioned at the heart of our decisions as we develop new funding initiatives, strengthen our relationships with the research community, and expand opportunities for collaboration As Research Manager, you ll lead the operational delivery of our research programme, shape our grant processes, oversee the portfolio and build our research impact monitoring systems from scratch across a programme of around £5 million a year and 50 active grants. You will also line manage a Research Funding Officer and a Research Impact and Engagement Officer. This highly impactful role is ideal for someone who is excited by the opportunity to strengthen and modernise how funding is delivered in an area of huge unmet need and enormous potential. You will have well-defined experience in research funding operations and delivery in the medical research charity sector, with the desire to take ownership of a growing and ambitious research portfolio and play a central role in supporting the programme s continued development. What you ll build New funding initiatives Deliver the ..... full job details .....