Purpose of the post and main responsibilities
The Programme Manager will have a key responsibility for supporting project delivery of the GSK Dementia and Shingles study, working with colleagues from across HDR UK and partners across the 4 nations. Key tasks will include:
Project Management and Delivery
- Lead on preparation of HDR UK-provided project delivery updates to the joint HDR UK and GSK project delivery group to track and ensure delivery of programme deliverables and milestones.
- Coordinate with the HDR UK Patient, Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) team, PPIE activities promoting effective and inclusive approaches to demonstrate trustworthiness and promote confidence in the ethical use and re-use of health data for research and innovation.
- Contribute to equality, diversity and inclusion through fostering an inclusive culture and effective team dynamic across multiple partners contributing to the study, including building a close working relationship with the study sponsorship team at GSK.
- Support monitoring, measurement and communication of delivery and impact and support alignment across wider relevant HDR UK Programmes.
- Work with the HDR UK finance and contracting teams to maintain robust contractual and financial management across a diverse range of partners contributing to the study.
Data Partnerships and Access
- Work closely with the scientific and data teams across HDR UK and GSK to deliver and adapt where necessary the data strategy and roadmap for access to national datasets in partnership with national data providers.
- Lead on project management and co-ordination of data access and linkage applications, developing project plans and timelines, tracking deliverables, interdependencies, risk and mitigation, and supporting alignment to activities across the Programme
- Support study leadership team in implementation of systematic, transparent and consistent processes for data access approvals, and onboarding of new data partners, ensuring join up and alignment across other relevant programmes within HDR UK, including the Institute Data Office and in line with best practice guided by the HDR UK Trust & Transparency team.
General responsibilities
- Enable use of appropriate team communications and project management tools.
- Support development of reference communication materials such as standard presentation and communications decks.
- Support the set-up and delivery of stakeholder meetings and events where required.
- Be prepared and able to work flexibly to support colleagues as needed, adapting to an evolving environment and emerging priorities.
Planning and organising
This post is embedded within HDR UK’s Strategy & Brain Health Team and will plan and manage a specific workload of complex, over-lapping activities and tasks. The role will require high levels of organisational skill and ability to work across organisational boundaries. The post-holder will need to effectively plan and deliver their work and be able to respond to changing needs in a fast-paced organisation.
Problem solving
Supported by study Leadership Team, the Programme Manager will be expected to use problem solving skills to respond to the diverse demands on the team. The postholder will operate with significant independence and will require confidence and resilience in planning and in dealing with enquiries and challenges that arise across the work. The post holder will make an effective judgement on when to escalate issues to senior colleagues’ attention and with what urgency.
Decision making
The post-holder will make day-to-day operational decisions for their own workload. They will identify, initiate, and develop opportunities for streamlined and effective working with the study team and wider Programmes as well as with HDR UK partners and organisations within project scope.
Continuous improvement
HDR UK is dedicated to continuous improvement through our quality management system and has achieved ISO 9001 accreditation. The post-holder will review, analyse, identify and implement opportunities for quality improvement within their role and as part of the wider team through our strategy development and internal audit processes.
Key contacts
The post holder will work closely and build and maintain effective working relationships across HDR UK, with the GSK study team and our partner organisations. The post will sit within the HDR UK Brain Health team and directly support the work of the study leadership team. In particular, they will work closely with the Study Associate Director and Scientific leadership team, led by Professors Angela Wood and Cornelia van Duijn.
Experience
- Experience of driving delivery at pace, particularly within private-public partnerships, with agility to respond effectively as circumstances evolve.
- Direct experience of managing or delivering work for commercial clients, with an understanding of commercial priorities and ways of working.
- Direct experience of building and maintaining complex stakeholder relationships, particularly within cross-sectoral (commercial, academic and NHS) settings.
- Experience of working in the health data ecosystem in the UK, with a good understanding of health data science and infrastructure (e.g. Trusted Research Environments).
- Demonstratable success in delivering large scale, UK-wide health data research and/or health data infrastructure programmes, with understanding of research and innovation delivery.
- Good understanding of health data access information governance, security and privacy requirements, and the practicalities of provision of, access to and use of health data for research and innovation.
- Experience of understanding the needs of relevant audiences and presenting complex information to different stakeholders ranging from senior clinical to tech, including commercial clients.
- Expertise in adjusting plans to break down long term strategies into component parts and set milestones.
- Experience of navigating ambiguity, championing change and providing clarity, with the ability to bring simplicity to complex processes.
- Experience of building collaborative teams across multiple organisations and working directly with senior managers, with humility and confidence.
- Proactive approach and expertise in developing creative solutions to challenging problems and developing quality management approaches to continually improve delivery, including an ability to determine when problems need to be escalated.
- Experience of financial management and an understanding of the impact of financial flows.
- Knowledge of a range of project management tools and demonstrable project management experience, across complex projects.
Please note, as we are a UK-based organisation, applicants must be living in, and eligible to work in, the UK. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
We politely request no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
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