Research Manager, Monitoring and Evaluation, NIHR Infrastructure

at  LGC Group

Company Description
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) is funded by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). We work in partnership with the NHS, universities, local government, other research funders, patients, and the public. The NIHR funds, enables, and delivers world-leading health and social care research that improves people’s health and wellbeing and promotes economic growth. We are also a major funder of applied health research in low- and middle-income countries.
Job Description
We are looking for a dynamic and experienced research manager to support the monitoring, evaluation and learning activities of a high profile National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) portfolio of clinical and applied health research infrastructure funding schemes.
The NIHR is funded through the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and was established to create a health research system in which the NHS supports outstanding individuals, working in world-class facilities, conducting leading-edge research focused on the needs of patients and the public. The NIHR Research Infrastructure provides a platform to enable research by creating an environment where early stage and applied research can thrive. Our Research Infrastructure portfolio consists of research expertise, specialist facilities, a research delivery workforce and support services. The NIHR invests more than £606 million a year of infrastructure funding through a number of different five-year infrastructure funding schemes.

JOB PURPOSE:

Reporting to the Senior Research Manager - Monitoring and Evaluation within the Infrastructure team, the post holder will support the development and implementation of strategies and solutions to embed new approaches to award level data monitoring and reporting across the research infrastructure portfolio, and the implementation of scheme level monitoring, evaluation and learning approaches, including impact evaluation.
We are looking for someone that has experience of working with an array of data sources (metrics, narrative and financial reporting information), a basic understanding of research impact, and a broad perspective of academia, funding and project management. You will work closely with the rest of the Infrastructure team, as well as the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning team. You will liaise with internal and external stakeholders, so you should be confident in interacting with your peers and the external scientific community and able to demonstrate critical thinking.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Support the annual reporting process: support the management of the annual reporting process, including the maintenance of forms and guidance notes, organisation of briefing workshops for the award holders and collation of annual reports. Also, review and feedback on annual reports to provide assurance on progress against goals, governance and management of awards.
• Support the review and implementation of new approaches to annual reporting: manage and support elements of the ongoing review of current processes and the development of a ‘fit-for-purpose’ approach to annual reporting, taking into account the need to provide both adequate assurance and up-to-date evidence of progress and impacts. Manage work related to the identification and implementation of a new digital solution for annual reporting.
• Analyse reporting outputs: support the quantitative and qualitative data analysis for projects across the infrastructure portfolio, including strategic reviews, and, where feasible and appropriate, produce visual representations of progress using data collected and collated for reporting purposes.
• Provide flexible support to the team and the line manager: take a flexible approach to work tasks, ‘muck in’ and provide support on additional tasks across the team during busy times.
  Line Management: The post does not have any line management responsibility.
  Qualifications