Head Of Operations (Pruk)

The role

This is a highly exciting opportunity to build a vibrant new national coordinating Hub and national ‘community forum’ for the UK’s longitudinal population studies. Through this, you will enable a multidisciplinary team of directors and theme leads support this fascinating form of scientific endeavour which sits at the intersection of biomedical, social and environmental sciences. You will be expected to co-develop the Hub model and establish its operating processes from scratch. You will work at a national level, providing operational management of the Population Research UK (PRUK) initiative for coordinating the enhancement and connectivity of the UK’s longitudinal research infrastructure with the countries longitudinal studies through a Hub and Spoke model.

What will you be doing?

You will have responsibility for all operational management of the Hub, managing the Hub team of communication and technical experts, leading on delivery, reporting and financial management. This will include: (1) designing and overseeing the development of UK-wide funding calls and management of the subsequent funding lifecycle including awards, project oversight and managing reporting; (2)You will coordinate the development of a vibrant, interdisciplinary and pan-UK longitudinal research community providing value and motivation to all studies – from the largest to the smallest.

You should apply if

You have a deep experience of managing high-profile scientific programmes and have the drive to build a new operational management structure from scratch and to support a small team of directors and theme leads to enable transformational change at a national level.

Additional information

Contract type: Open-ended with funding until 31/12/2028

Work pattern: Full time/ 1 FTE, Monday to Friday

Grade: L

Salary: £57,696-£64,914 per annum

School/Unit: Bristol Medical School,

Shift pattern: 35 hours per week

This advert will close at23:59 GMTon 21/03/2024

For informal queries please contact: Professor Nicholas Timpson, n.j.timpson@bristol.ac.uk

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