Research And Development Manager

Location: Contracted to our Peterborough office with the flexibility for hybrid working
Salary: £33,000 - £36,000 FTE depending on experience
Hours: Full time: 37.5 hours pw (would consider Part Time - minimum 30 hours pw)
Contract type: Permanent
Benefits: We want all our employees to feel valued and engaged and are committed to offering a positive working culture along with a good work-life balance. As well as ensuring they pay their employees fairly, they offer the following benefits: Flexible working, Generous annual leave, Pension Scheme, Sick Pay, Death in Service, Employee Assistance Programme, Bike Loan Scheme, Cycle2Work Scheme, Eyecare, Discount Portal, Social Activities.
Be a part of an energetic and vibrant team who are driven by the desire to improve the lives of people living with kidney disease. Our vision is the day when everyone lives free from kidney disease.
As research development and engagement manager, you will ensure research is at the heart of our strategic programmes and help to identify opportunities for the translation of evidence into impact for patients.
If you have a research background, are passionate about making research count and building relationships with a variety of people then we’d love to hear from you.
This role will develop a thorough understanding of the research landscape relating to our programmes and be able to communicate these to a variety of audiences. Engagement with our funded researchers will be key to the success of this role, both to capture and promote the outputs of their research, and to identify where added investment or policy activity would drive this towards patient benefit.
You’ll also be engaging with research groups and networks, helping to stimulate research collaborations based on agreed unmet needs and research gaps.
If you are interested in the position, please complete the online application form and submit your CV, together with a supporting statement, outlining why you are interested and how you feel you meet the requirements.
We are committed to providing equal opportunities for everyone and encourage applications from all sections of the community.
About Kidney Research UK:
Kidney Research UK is the leading charity in the UK focused on funding research into the prevention, treatment and management of kidney disease. Our vision is the day when everyone lives free from kidney disease and for more than 60 years the research we fund has been making an impact. But kidney disease is increasing as are the factors contributing to it, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and obesity, making our work more essential than ever.
At Kidney Research UK we work with clinicians and scientists across the UK, funding and facilitating research into all areas of kidney disease. We collaborate with partners across the public, private and third sectors to prevent kidney disease and drive innovation to transform treatments.
Over the last ten years we have invested more than £58 million into research. We lobby governments and decision makers to change policy and practice to ensure that more than 3 million people living with kidney disease in the UK have access to the most effective care and treatment, and to make kidney disease a priority.
Most importantly, we also work closely with patients, ensuring their voice is heard and is at the centre of everything we do, from deciding which research to invest in to how we plan our priorities and our work across the charity.
Those patient contributions are vital, always helping us and our partners to understand what life is like with kidney disease, always ensuring we see the patient behind the treatment and always reminding us that behind every statistic and every number is a person – the patients and the carers who inspire our mission and push us forward to make a difference and change the future of kidney disease.
Closing date: 1 April 2024
Interviews will be held w/c 8 April 2024
No agencies please
You may have experience in the following: Research and Development Manager, Research Engagement Manager, Program Development Manager, Research Impact Manager, Research Translation Manager, Research Program Manager, Research Strategy Manager, Research Relationship Manager, Research Collaboration Manager, Program Engagement Manager, Program Development Coordinator, Third Sector, NFP, Not for Profit, Charity, Charities, etc.
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