Salary: £60,300 Closing date: Sunday, 2 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. These challenges need the bold science we support, but they won’t be solved by science alone. 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 Project Manager will report into the Senior Project Manager and will be responsible for leading on key strategic projects, embedding consistent ways of working within DR and, supporting the Senior Project Manager with operational management of the DR programme. In this role you will: Lead and manage the integrated workstreams of own project Oversee use of best practice project management tools and techniques to support delivery of projects Monitor and report on progress, issues and outcomes across projects Manage the governance and controls quality of project delivery Analyse and trouble shoot project challenges; identifies optimisation potential Build external and internal relationships required for project delivery To be successful in this role you will have: Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong relationships with a wide range of stakeholders at all levels. Strong verbal and written communication skills. Experienced Project Manager Project Management qualifications such as PRINCE Familiar with project management IT systems To apply please upload your current CV and complete our short application. Interview dates: w/c 24th February You can view the full job description on our website You can read more about the benefits we offer our employees on our website Our Hybrid Way of Working We understand that our colleagues have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to build a flexible working environment, in which people can perform at their best. At Wellcome we have a hybrid way of working which is 3 days in our Euston Road offices (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) with the remaining 2 days working either remotely or in the office. Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do Diversity and Inclusion is a priority at Wellcome. We are committed to cultivating a fair and inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and thrive. We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition. Please visit our website for more information on adjustments and accessibility, or contact us at jobswellcome.org. LI-RD1 LI-Hybrid