Project Manager

Project Manager 
Salary: £35k per annum 
Location: Hybrid working – London EC1Y Office / Home

About MQ Mental Health Research:
MQ is a multi-award-winning international charity, funding mental health research. By connecting scientists with supporters, together we strive to understand mental health, improve treatments, and prevent mental illness. 

We're at a critical point in our development, following the launch of our new 5-year strategy, MQ aims to transform the lives of everyone affected by mental illness.

We'd love for you to join our friendly, high performing team, based in London. This a hybrid role with 2 days based in our London office and 3 days from home/remote working.

What you'll be doing:
As a Project Manager, you are responsible for ensuring your projects are delivered on time and on budget, to the highest possible standards.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Project management, including creating and maintaining project plans including objectives, activities, timeline, stakeholders, and monitoring and evaluation.
• Undertaking Qualitative data analysis. 
• Leading recruitment, moderating focus groups, analysing qualitative data and writing reports for a study investigating the challenges for early career scientists and lived experience experts working in mental health research.
• Leading the recruitment of lived experience experts and supporting training/discussion with lived experience experts on a study developing a novel clinical trial platform for mental health.
• Leading stakeholder engagement programmes to understand diverse perspectives across academia and industry to support the development of a clinical trial platform for mental health.
• Working with stakeholders to develop a novel referral platform to support the care of young people with mental health problems. 
• Supporting new research initiatives as a Project Manager working in collaboration with consortium partners 
• Writing reports for internal and external stakeholders and presenting them as needed.
• Updating contact lists and following data management protocols and GDPR while handling data.

Who we're looking for:
This role is for you, if you have:

• A Degree in Psychology BSc
• Experience of conducting and analysing studies involving qualitative data analysis
• Experience of moderating focus groups
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent time management skills
• Ability to prioritise and deal with competing deadlines

The following qualifications / experience is highly desirable: 

• MSc in Psychology or a related discipline
• Monday.com experience 
• Experience in stakeholder engagement (leading advisory board meetings)
• Experience working in mental health (either in clinical NHS settings working with patients or in research capacity (recruitment and/or data collection with patients with mental health problems or engagement with patients or lived experience experts on research projects))

Benefits

• Wellbeing Allowance
• Pension Scheme
• Strengths Finder Assessment & Coaching
• Training & Development
• Season Ticket Loans
• Cycle to Work Scheme

Application deadline: 18 February 2024 
Please note:We will be interviewing people who match our criteria, as and when they apply 

Interested?

If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our careers portal where you can complete your application for this position.

As an employer committed to inclusivity, we welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Safer recruitment is important to us and the successful applicant will be asked to provide two references. They will also be required to complete a safeguarding self-declaration and undertake a DBS check.

No agencies please.