Salary: £57,400
Closing date: Thursday, 6 February 2025
Contract type: Permanent
The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy, and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships.
We plan to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.
Wellcome’s Discovery Research programme exists to support the generation of new knowledge that could transform life, health and wellbeing in ways we can’t always anticipate today. We fund researchers across fields, disciplines and career stages, in both the UK and Lower-Middle-Income countries. And we’re changing how research is done, through improved tools, technologies, methods and research culture.
The Discovery Research (DR) team works to manage and develop our portfolio of activities which includes individual researchers and teams supported through our funding schemes, as well as the world-leading institutes and initiatives we support through a more targeted approach. In 2022/23, we spent £955 million on research, across the breadth of our remit. Our funding supports thousands of researchers across the world and part of our role is to find ways to forge partnerships and networks with established and new research and funding communities.

We are recruiting to three roles in the newly created Strategy Implementation team within Discovery Research. The Strategy Implementation team will work to support the wider DR team, to ensure strategic alignment and effective operational delivery of DR’s ambitions. The Strategy Implementation team have three broad areas of responsibility:

• Effective operational management of the DR programme, including wider organisation planning cycles such as delivery planning, budgeting and forecasting.
• Leading on the ongoing development of, and reporting against, the DR strategy.
• Initiating agreed routes to monitor, evaluate and learn from our portfolio.

The team will collaborate across DR and with colleagues from across Wellcome, including Wellcome’s Strategy department, our Research, Equity, Influencing and Engagement departments, and with Enabling departments such as Research Funding, Finance and Legal.
The Strategy Implementation Manager will work in close collaboration with the Head of Strategy Implementation on development of the DR strategy and routes to measure and report on progress against strategic outcomes and how these activities feed into operational management of the overall DR programme.

In this role you will:

• Supports the Head of Strategy Implementation with operational management of the Discovery Research Programme, including delivery planning budget management, resource allocation and risk management.
• Manage the development and tracking of programme-level milestones with work stream leads across the business area to enable actionable reporting for the DR management team.
• Manage and track key risks, escalating these before they become issues, and ensuring that these risks are being addressed by the business area and Wellcome management
• Support the Head of Strategy Implementation and work with relevant Wellcome teams to implement proportionate MEL processes and reporting.
• Build and maintain productive and collaborative relationships with key internal departments, including finance, risk, legal, procurement, strategy to streamline operational processes and to ensure the business area has the tools, expertise and resource it requires to deliver its outcomes.
• The individual will be a key team member, demonstrating leadership and best practice in operational management that is proportionate and appropriate to enable efficient delivery of research related activity and, strategic development for Discovery Research.
• Contribute to the creation and development of an inclusive culture across the organisation.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Experience of delivering multiple key projects/pieces of work in parallel, to a high standard within tight deadlines.
• Ability to build and strengthen relationships with key business stakeholder groups in a complex matrix environment, ensuring that all activity is fit for purpose and recognises and balances the needs of stakeholders across DR and wider Wellcome.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience of strategic planning and budget management.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to maintain constructive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders at all levels and leveraging these networks to deliver objectives.
• Significant operational, or project management experience.

To apply please upload your current CV and complete our short application.
Interview dates: w/c 3 March
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We are recruiting to three roles in the newly created Strategy Implementation team within Discovery Research. The Strategy Implementation team will work to support the wider DR team, to ensure strategic alignment and effective operational delivery of DR’s ambitions. The Strategy Implementation team have three broad areas of responsibility:

• Effective operational management of the DR programme, including wider organisation planning cycles such as delivery planning, budgeting and forecasting.
• Leading on the ongoing development of, and reporting against, the DR strategy.
• Initiating agreed routes to monitor, evaluate and learn from our portfolio

In this role you will:

• Supports the Head of Strategy Implementation with operational management of the Discovery Research Programme, including delivery planning budget management, resource allocation and risk management.
• Manage the development and tracking of programme-level milestones with work stream leads across the business area to enable actionable reporting for the DR management team.
• Manage and track key risks, escalating these before they become issues, and ensuring that these risks are being addressed by the business area and Wellcome management
• Support the Head of Strategy Implementation and work with relevant Wellcome teams to implement proportionate MEL processes and reporting.
• Build and maintain productive and collaborative relationships with key internal departments, including finance, risk, legal, procurement, strategy to streamline operational processes and to ensure the business area has the tools, expertise and resource it requires to deliver its outcomes.
• The individual will be a key team member, demonstrating leadership and best practice in operational management that is proportionate and appropriate to enable efficient delivery of research related activity and, strategic development for Discovery Research.
• Contribute to the creation and development of an inclusive culture across the organisation

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Experience of delivering multiple key projects/pieces of work in parallel, to a high standard within tight deadlines.
• Ability to build and strengthen relationships with key business stakeholder groups in a complex matrix environment, ensuring that all activity is fit for purpose and recognises and balances the needs of stakeholders across DR and wider Wellcome.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience of strategic planning and budget management.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to maintain constructive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders at all levels and leveraging these networks to deliver objectives.
• Significant operational, or project management experience