Cohorts Partnership Lead (12 Month FTC)

Description:

Company Description

Genomics England partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics. We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments – with patients and participants at the heart of it all.

Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.

We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.

Job Description

We're recruiting a Cohorts Partnership Lead on a 12 month fixed term contract to cover maternity leave. We've a number of programmes which engage various cohorts and this role will provide relationship management with academic, clinical, commercial and funding partners, from engagement through to data delivery. This is an important role which will be tasked with gathering, communicating and actioning the needs of external partners with internal Delivery teams. 

You'll be the Genomics England point of contact for all external cohorts enquiries, providing accurate and relevant information relating to the cohorts offering and gathering requirements.
You'll manage the relationships with external cohort leads including academic, clinical and commercial partners as well as key funders and internal stakeholders from initial engagement through to data delivery, insights generation and repeat custom where appropriate. You'll be providing reporting of progress update reports and submission of financial claims to external funders where applicable.
You'll understand and implement key activities relating to cohort partnership set-up, onboarding and management including data, analysis and sample requirements, ethics, legal, governance, finance and resourcing. 
You'll help to guide the day to day activities of a Cohorts Manager as part of a high performing team, ensure that all activities are carried out for that role accordingly, and ensuring that we have the right skills in place to deliver our mission. You'll also provide exceptional stakeholder management across teams internally to bring together the staff required to complete projectsSkills & Experience for Success

We anticipate that the ideal candidate will have:

Experience of scientific project management including project costing, resourcing and contractual requirements. 
Excellent relationship building and management skills, demonstrated by effective partnerships and collaborations experience. 
Demonstrable experience with influencing, communication and organisational skills with an eye for detail. 
Proven experience in handling multiple sources of information and producing a range of products (e.g. project plans, reports, etc.) to ensure effective delivery across the project lifecycle. 
Experience in a life sciences research environment either in academia or industry. 

Qualifications

Degree level qualification in a science subject, or similar level of relevant experience.

Additional Information

Salary from: £59,500

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including: 

30 days’ holiday (plus bank holidays), with additional days for long service awards
A generous pension scheme of up to 15% combined contribution
Life Assurance (3 x salary)
Individual learning budgets for every colleague, a Blinkist account and a wide variety of courses on our portal
A wide variety of wellness benefits including Gympass, a Headspace account, free weekly Yoga classes
Enhanced maternity & paternity benefits
Blended working arrangementsTalk to our Talent Team and find out how a career with Genomics England will benefit you.

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Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background.

Genomics England’s policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor. 

Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour is contrary to , undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity, respect and integrity of all parties. 

Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility. We expect most people to come into the office 2 times each month as a minimum. However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. There is no expectation that staff will return to the office full time unless they want to, however, some of our roles require you to be on site full time e.g., lab teams, reception team. 

Our teams and squads have, and will continue to, reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum. Our office locations are Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.

As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.  We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare